netdev - Re: net: phylink: dsa: mv88e6xxx: flaky link detection on switch ports with internal PHYs

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Date:   Wed, 30 Jan 2019 14:01:51 -0500
From:   John David Anglin <dave.anglin@...l.net>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: net: phylink: dsa: mv88e6xxx: flaky link detection on switch
 ports with internal PHYs

On 2019-01-30 12:28 p.m., Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 12:08:39PM -0500, John David Anglin wrote:
>> On 2019-01-22 7:22 p.m., Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>> >From my Espressobin
>>>
>>> cat /proc/interrupts
>>> ...
>>>  44:          0          0  mv88e6xxx-g1   3 Edge      mv88e6xxx-g1-atu-prob
>>>  46:          0          0  mv88e6xxx-g1   5 Edge      mv88e6xxx-g1-vtu-prob
>>>  48:         38         24  mv88e6xxx-g1   7 Edge      mv88e6xxx-g2
>>>  51:          0          1  mv88e6xxx-g2   1 Edge      !soc!internal-regs@...00000!mdio@...04!switch0@...dio:11
>>>  52:          0          0  mv88e6xxx-g2   2 Edge      !soc!internal-regs@...00000!mdio@...04!switch0@...dio:12
>>>  53:         38         23  mv88e6xxx-g2   3 Edge      !soc!internal-regs@...00000!mdio@...04!switch0@...dio:13
>>>
>>> These are PHY interrupts.
>> If we come back to my trying to use the INTn pin on the esspressobin, I
>> have found that clearing and resetting the interrupt
>> enable bits in the global control register (offset 0x4) restarts link
>> detection when the device is stuck.  This suggests that the
>> INTn connection to MPP2_23 is low when the the GIC interrupt is enabled
>> on this pin.  Possibly, this is caused by the fact
>> that EEIntEn is set to 1 on reset.  INTn then goes low when EEPROM
>> loading is done.  Another possibility might be race conditions
>> in processing interrupts.
>>
>> Thoughts?
> Hi David
>
> You need active low interrupts. Without it, i think you are always
> going to have race conditions which will cause interrupts to get
> stuck/lost.
>
> I would suggest you remove the interrupt from your device tree and use
> the mv88e6xxx polling method. If i remember correctly, it currently
> polls 10 per second, so PHY link up/down is going to be 5 times faster
> on average than when phylib is polling the PHY.
Hi Andrew,

The main motivation in doing this is to try to enable the AVB interrupt
and to improve the PTP support.
I agree that polling is perfectly fine for PHY link interrupts. 
Possibly, ATU and VTU might need faster
support but I'm not using that at the moment.

I have hacked on the time stamp code quit a bit to try and improve
things but there are still issues with
lost or overwritten time stamps:

Jan 28 11:15:05 localhost kernel: [234850.840883] mv88e6085
d0032004.mdio-mii:01
: timestamp discarded
Jan 28 11:15:05 localhost ptp4l: [234852.998] port 3: received SYNC
without time
stamp

I think when PTP packets other than PDELAY are too closely spaced, we
have problems accessing
the timestamp quick enough.  Also, timestamp access is dependent on CPU
speed and HZ.

It looks like I can easily connect MPP2_23 to MPP1_16 on the edge
connector P8.  I believe the northbridge
pins support level interrupts.

In /proc/interrupts, the switch interrupts are shown as edge.  The only
place that I see where this
is potentially set is mv88e6xxx_g2_watchdog_setup() where the call to
request_threaded_irq() passes
"IRQF_ONESHOT | IRQF_TRIGGER_FALLING".  Does this need to change?

Dave

-- 
John David Anglin  dave.anglin@...l.net