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author | Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com> | 2015-08-04 12:17:53 -0700 |
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committer | Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com> | 2015-08-04 15:44:42 -0700 |
commit | 9ca8dbcc65cfc63d6f5ef3312a33184e1d726e00 (patch) | |
tree | 1c9cafbcd35f783a87880a10f85d1a060db1a563 /kernel/Documentation/usb/bulk-streams.txt | |
parent | 98260f3884f4a202f9ca5eabed40b1354c489b29 (diff) |
Add the rt linux 4.1.3-rt3 as base
Import the rt linux 4.1.3-rt3 as OPNFV kvm base.
It's from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-rt-devel.git linux-4.1.y-rt and
the base is:
commit 0917f823c59692d751951bf5ea699a2d1e2f26a2
Author: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Date: Sat Jul 25 12:13:34 2015 +0200
Prepare v4.1.3-rt3
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
We lose all the git history this way and it's not good. We
should apply another opnfv project repo in future.
Change-Id: I87543d81c9df70d99c5001fbdf646b202c19f423
Signed-off-by: Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com>
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diff --git a/kernel/Documentation/usb/bulk-streams.txt b/kernel/Documentation/usb/bulk-streams.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ffc020218 --- /dev/null +++ b/kernel/Documentation/usb/bulk-streams.txt @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +Background +========== + +Bulk endpoint streams were added in the USB 3.0 specification. Streams allow a +device driver to overload a bulk endpoint so that multiple transfers can be +queued at once. + +Streams are defined in sections 4.4.6.4 and 8.12.1.4 of the Universal Serial Bus +3.0 specification at http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/ The USB Attached SCSI +Protocol, which uses streams to queue multiple SCSI commands, can be found on +the T10 website (http://t10.org/). + + +Device-side implications +======================== + +Once a buffer has been queued to a stream ring, the device is notified (through +an out-of-band mechanism on another endpoint) that data is ready for that stream +ID. The device then tells the host which "stream" it wants to start. The host +can also initiate a transfer on a stream without the device asking, but the +device can refuse that transfer. Devices can switch between streams at any +time. + + +Driver implications +=================== + +int usb_alloc_streams(struct usb_interface *interface, + struct usb_host_endpoint **eps, unsigned int num_eps, + unsigned int num_streams, gfp_t mem_flags); + +Device drivers will call this API to request that the host controller driver +allocate memory so the driver can use up to num_streams stream IDs. They must +pass an array of usb_host_endpoints that need to be setup with similar stream +IDs. This is to ensure that a UASP driver will be able to use the same stream +ID for the bulk IN and OUT endpoints used in a Bi-directional command sequence. + +The return value is an error condition (if one of the endpoints doesn't support +streams, or the xHCI driver ran out of memory), or the number of streams the +host controller allocated for this endpoint. The xHCI host controller hardware +declares how many stream IDs it can support, and each bulk endpoint on a +SuperSpeed device will say how many stream IDs it can handle. Therefore, +drivers should be able to deal with being allocated less stream IDs than they +requested. + +Do NOT call this function if you have URBs enqueued for any of the endpoints +passed in as arguments. Do not call this function to request less than two +streams. + +Drivers will only be allowed to call this API once for the same endpoint +without calling usb_free_streams(). This is a simplification for the xHCI host +controller driver, and may change in the future. + + +Picking new Stream IDs to use +============================ + +Stream ID 0 is reserved, and should not be used to communicate with devices. If +usb_alloc_streams() returns with a value of N, you may use streams 1 though N. +To queue an URB for a specific stream, set the urb->stream_id value. If the +endpoint does not support streams, an error will be returned. + +Note that new API to choose the next stream ID will have to be added if the xHCI +driver supports secondary stream IDs. + + +Clean up +======== + +If a driver wishes to stop using streams to communicate with the device, it +should call + +void usb_free_streams(struct usb_interface *interface, + struct usb_host_endpoint **eps, unsigned int num_eps, + gfp_t mem_flags); + +All stream IDs will be deallocated when the driver releases the interface, to +ensure that drivers that don't support streams will be able to use the endpoint. |