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Date:   Mon, 9 Jul 2018 23:04:26 +0200
From:   Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Realtek linux nic maintainers <nic_swsd@...ltek.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 07/10] r8169: migrate speed_down function to
 phylib

On 03.07.2018 18:48, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> 
> 
> On 07/02/2018 02:31 PM, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>> On 02.07.2018 23:20, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>>  On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 09:37:08PM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>>>> Change rtl_speed_down() to use phylib.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c | 33 +++++++++++++---------------
>>>>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
>>>> index 311321ee..807fbc75 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
>>>> @@ -4240,6 +4240,10 @@ static void rtl8169_init_phy(struct net_device *dev, struct rtl8169_private *tp)
>>>>  		rtl_writephy(tp, 0x0b, 0x0000); //w 0x0b 15 0 0
>>>>  	}
>>>>  
>>>> +	/* We may have called rtl_speed_down before */
>>>> +	dev->phydev->advertising = dev->phydev->supported;
>>>> +	genphy_config_aneg(dev->phydev);
>>>> +
>>>>  	genphy_soft_reset(dev->phydev);
>>>>  
>>>>  	rtl8169_set_speed(dev, AUTONEG_ENABLE, SPEED_1000, DUPLEX_FULL,
>>>> @@ -4323,28 +4327,21 @@ static void rtl_init_mdio_ops(struct rtl8169_private *tp)
>>>>  	}
>>>>  }
>>>>  
>>>> +#define BASET10		(ADVERTISED_10baseT_Half | ADVERTISED_10baseT_Full)
>>>> +#define BASET100	(ADVERTISED_100baseT_Half | ADVERTISED_100baseT_Full)
>>>> +#define BASET1000	(ADVERTISED_1000baseT_Half | ADVERTISED_1000baseT_Full)
>>>> +
>>>>  static void rtl_speed_down(struct rtl8169_private *tp)
>>>>  {
>>>> -	u32 adv;
>>>> -	int lpa;
>>>> +	struct phy_device *phydev = tp->dev->phydev;
>>>> +	u32 adv = phydev->lp_advertising & phydev->supported;
>>>>  
>>>> -	rtl_writephy(tp, 0x1f, 0x0000);
>>>> -	lpa = rtl_readphy(tp, MII_LPA);
>>>> +	if (adv & BASET10)
>>>> +		phydev->advertising &= ~(BASET100 | BASET1000);
>>>> +	else if (adv & BASET100)
>>>> +		phydev->advertising &= ~BASET1000;
>>>>  
>>>> -	if (lpa & (LPA_10HALF | LPA_10FULL))
>>>> -		adv = ADVERTISED_10baseT_Half | ADVERTISED_10baseT_Full;
>>>> -	else if (lpa & (LPA_100HALF | LPA_100FULL))
>>>> -		adv = ADVERTISED_10baseT_Half | ADVERTISED_10baseT_Full |
>>>> -		      ADVERTISED_100baseT_Half | ADVERTISED_100baseT_Full;
>>>> -	else
>>>> -		adv = ADVERTISED_10baseT_Half | ADVERTISED_10baseT_Full |
>>>> -		      ADVERTISED_100baseT_Half | ADVERTISED_100baseT_Full |
>>>> -		      (tp->mii.supports_gmii ?
>>>> -		       ADVERTISED_1000baseT_Half |
>>>> -		       ADVERTISED_1000baseT_Full : 0);
>>>> -
>>>> -	rtl8169_set_speed(tp->dev, AUTONEG_ENABLE, SPEED_1000, DUPLEX_FULL,
>>>> -			  adv);
>>>> +	genphy_config_aneg(phydev);
>>>>  }
>>>
>>> It probably it is me being too tired, but i don't get what this is
>>> doing? Changing the local advertisement based on what the remote is
>>> advertising. Why?
>>>
>> It also took me some time to understand what this speed_down is doing.
>> If we suspend and wait for a WoL packet, then we don't have to burn all
>> the energy for a GBit connection. Therefore we switch to the lowest
>> speed supported by chip and link partner. This is done by removing
>> higher speeds from the advertised modes and restarting an autonego.
> 
> This is something that the tg3 driver also does, we should probably
> consider doing this as part of a generic PHY library helpers since I was
> told by several HW engineers that usually 10Mbits for WoL is much more
> energy efficient.
> 
Yes, I agree this should become part of phylib. I'd prefer to do it
after this r8169 patch series, will spend a few thoughts on how to
do it best, also considering your remark below.

Heiner

> One thing that bothers me a bit is that this should ideally be offered
> as both blocking and non-blocking options, because we might want to make
> sure that at the time we suspend, and we already had a link established,
> we successfully re-negotiate the link with the partner. I agree that
> there could be any sort of link disruption happening at any point though..
>