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Date:   Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:50:11 +0000
From:   Joao Pinto <Joao.Pinto@...opsys.com>
To:     Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        Joao Pinto <Joao.Pinto@...opsys.com>
CC:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
        Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...com>,
        "LABBE Corentin" <clabbe.montjoie@...il.com>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: stmmac: Use AVB mode by default

Às 4:42 PM de 3/21/2017, Thierry Reding escreveu:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 03:23:00PM +0000, Joao Pinto wrote:
>> Às 3:12 PM de 3/21/2017, Thierry Reding escreveu:
>>> From: Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>
>>>
>>> Prior to the recent multi-queue changes the driver would configure the
>>> queues to use the AVB mode, but the mode then got switched to DCB. The
>>> hardware still works fine in DCB mode, but my testing capabilities are
>>> limited, so it's safer to revert to the prior setting anyway.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>
>>> ---
>>>  include/linux/stmmac.h | 4 ++--
>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/include/linux/stmmac.h b/include/linux/stmmac.h
>>> index be47b859e954..8349a5c1537b 100644
>>> --- a/include/linux/stmmac.h
>>> +++ b/include/linux/stmmac.h
>>> @@ -56,8 +56,8 @@
>>>  #define MTL_RX_ALGORITHM_WSP	0x5
>>>  
>>>  /* RX/TX Queue Mode */
>>> -#define MTL_QUEUE_DCB		0x0
>>> -#define MTL_QUEUE_AVB		0x1
>>> +#define MTL_QUEUE_AVB		0x0
>>> +#define MTL_QUEUE_DCB		0x1
>>>  
>>>  /* The MDC clock could be set higher than the IEEE 802.3
>>>   * specified frequency limit 0f 2.5 MHz, by programming a clock divider
>>>
>>
>> Thierry, I don't understand this patch. It will have 0 impact.
>>
>> In stmmac_platform configuration, 0 impact:
>>
>> 		if (of_property_read_bool(q_node, "snps,dcb-algorithm"))
>> 			plat->rx_queues_cfg[queue].mode_to_use = MTL_QUEUE_DCB;
>> 		else if (of_property_read_bool(q_node, "snps,avb-algorithm"))
>> 			plat->rx_queues_cfg[queue].mode_to_use = MTL_QUEUE_AVB;
>> 		else
>> **			plat->rx_queues_cfg[queue].mode_to_use = MTL_QUEUE_DCB;
>>
>> In dwmac4_core, 0 impact:
>>
>> 	value &= GMAC_RX_QUEUE_CLEAR(queue);
>> 	if (mode == MTL_QUEUE_AVB)
>> 		value |= GMAC_RX_AV_QUEUE_ENABLE(queue);
>> 	else if (mode == MTL_QUEUE_DCB)
>> 		value |= GMAC_RX_DCB_QUEUE_ENABLE(queue);
>>
>> I think you should set the default mode in (**).
> 
> That was my initial attempt, but then I realized that for old DTBs,
> stmmac_mtl_setup() will already exit prematurely because of the missing
> snps,mtl-{rx,tx}-config properties. It's pretty much for the same reason
> as the separate assignment of the default {rx,tx}_queues_to_use. In this
> case it's somewhat more obfuscated, though. Changing AVB to be mode 0
> means that plat->rx_queues_cfg[].mode_to_use will contain AVB as default
> because plat is devm_kzalloc()'ed.
> 
> Effectively this change makes all queues use AVB by default unless they
> are configured using the new device tree bindings.

Yes I keep forgeting that :), but you are assuming that
plat->rx_queues_cfg[queue].mode_to_use is 0 by default, which might not be the
case, but I agree with you that this is the simpler approach. Let's see what
others have to say.
> 
> Thierry
>