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From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
To: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Yehezkel Bernat <YehezkelShB@gmail.com>,
	Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>,
	Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@gmail.com>,
	Alan Borzeszkowski <alan.borzeszkowski@linux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/9] thunderbolt: Introduce USB4STREAM
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:22:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260428072209.3084930-1-mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> (raw)

Hi all,

This series adds support for a new protocol over USB4/Thunderbolt cable
called USB4STREAM. The protocol is super-simple and basically just
transfers raw packets from one host to another. It is documented as part of
the thunderbolt_stream driver.

The driver exposes /dev/tbstreamX devices on each side of the link that can
be used to transfer data using regular filesystem operations such as
read(2) and write(2):

  host1 # cat /dev/tbstream0
  host2 # echo hello > /dev/tbstream0

This can be useful in cases where network tooling is not available or just
for existing applications like 'dd' and 'cat' that do not support sockets.

thunderbolt_stream can be used at the same time with thunderbolt_net so
they don't rule each other our. 

thunderbolt_stream allows multiple streams to be created, for example one
stream for control traffic and another for data (there are some limitations
in the core USB4/Thunderbolt driver due to dedicated flow control scheme
but this is likely change in the future). Each stream is bi-directional
tunnel over the fabric.

There are a couple of additional usage examples in the last patch that adds
the driver itself.

This applies on top of my XDomain improvements series [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/20260427081109.2337731-1-mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com/

Mika Westerberg (9):
  thunderbolt: Add tb_property_merge_dir()
  thunderbolt: Add KUnit test for tb_property_merge_dir()
  thunderbolt: Allow service drivers to specify their own properties
  thunderbolt / net: Move ring_frame_size() to thunderbolt.h
  thunderbolt / net: Let the service drivers configure interrupt throttling
  thunderbolt: Add helper to figure size of the ring
  thunderbolt: Add tb_ring_flush()
  thunderbolt: Add support for ConfigFS
  thunderbolt: Add support for USB4STREAM

 .../ABI/testing/configfs-thunderbolt_stream   |   77 +
 drivers/net/thunderbolt/main.c                |   23 +-
 drivers/thunderbolt/Kconfig                   |   15 +
 drivers/thunderbolt/Makefile                  |    4 +
 drivers/thunderbolt/configfs.c                |   61 +
 drivers/thunderbolt/dma_test.c                |    5 +
 drivers/thunderbolt/domain.c                  |    2 +
 drivers/thunderbolt/nhi.c                     |   86 +-
 drivers/thunderbolt/nhi_regs.h                |    3 +-
 drivers/thunderbolt/property.c                |  154 +-
 drivers/thunderbolt/stream.c                  | 1693 +++++++++++++++++
 drivers/thunderbolt/tb.h                      |    8 +
 drivers/thunderbolt/test.c                    |   82 +
 drivers/thunderbolt/xdomain.c                 |   95 +-
 include/linux/thunderbolt.h                   |   44 +-
 15 files changed, 2257 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/configfs-thunderbolt_stream
 create mode 100644 drivers/thunderbolt/configfs.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/thunderbolt/stream.c

-- 
2.50.1


             reply	other threads:[~2026-04-28  7:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-28  7:22 Mika Westerberg [this message]
2026-04-28  7:22 ` [PATCH 1/9] thunderbolt: Add tb_property_merge_dir() Mika Westerberg
2026-04-28  7:22 ` [PATCH 2/9] thunderbolt: Add KUnit test for tb_property_merge_dir() Mika Westerberg
2026-04-28  7:22 ` [PATCH 3/9] thunderbolt: Allow service drivers to specify their own properties Mika Westerberg
2026-04-28  7:22 ` [PATCH 4/9] thunderbolt / net: Move ring_frame_size() to thunderbolt.h Mika Westerberg
2026-04-28  7:22 ` [PATCH 5/9] thunderbolt / net: Let the service drivers configure interrupt throttling Mika Westerberg
2026-04-28 14:59   ` Andrew Lunn
2026-04-28 17:26     ` Mika Westerberg
2026-04-28 18:10       ` Greg KH
2026-04-28 20:29         ` Alan Stern
2026-04-28  7:22 ` [PATCH 6/9] thunderbolt: Add helper to figure size of the ring Mika Westerberg
2026-04-28  7:22 ` [PATCH 7/9] thunderbolt: Add tb_ring_flush() Mika Westerberg
2026-04-28  7:22 ` [PATCH 8/9] thunderbolt: Add support for ConfigFS Mika Westerberg
2026-04-28  7:22 ` [PATCH 9/9] thunderbolt: Add support for USB4STREAM Mika Westerberg
2026-04-28 11:57   ` Greg KH
2026-04-28 12:03     ` Mika Westerberg
2026-04-28 13:54       ` Greg KH
2026-04-28 14:11         ` Mika Westerberg
2026-04-28 18:10           ` Greg KH
2026-04-29  7:05             ` Mika Westerberg
2026-04-28 15:08   ` Andrew Lunn
2026-04-28 15:13     ` Mika Westerberg
2026-04-28 16:45       ` Andrew Lunn
2026-04-28 17:24         ` Mika Westerberg

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