netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] net: phy: broadcom: Add support for Wake-on-LAN

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Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 12:10:55 +0200
From: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Doug Berger <opendmb@...il.com>,
	Broadcom internal kernel review list <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
	Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
	Marek Behún <kabel@...nel.org>,
	Peter Geis <pgwipeout@...il.com>, Frank <Frank.Sae@...or-comm.com>,
	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] net: phy: broadcom: Add support for
 Wake-on-LAN

On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 03:34:02PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Add support for WAKE_UCAST, WAKE_MCAST, WAKE_BCAST, WAKE_MAGIC and
> WAKE_MAGICSECURE. This is only supported with the BCM54210E and
> compatible Ethernet PHYs. Using the in-band interrupt or an out of band
> GPIO interrupts are supported.
> 
> Broadcom PHYs will generate a Wake-on-LAN level low interrupt on LED4 as
> soon as one of the supported patterns is being matched. That includes
> generating such an interrupt even if the PHY is operated during normal
> modes. If WAKE_UCAST is selected, this could lead to the LED4 interrupt
> firing up for every packet being received which is absolutely
> undesirable from a performance point of view.
> 
> Because the Wake-on-LAN configuration can be set long before the system
> is actually put to sleep, we cannot have an interrupt service routine to
> clear on read the interrupt status register and ensure that new packet
> matches will be detected.
> 
> It is desirable to enable the Wake-on-LAN interrupt as late as possible
> during the system suspend process such that we limit the number of
> interrupts to be handled by the system, but also conversely feed into
> the Linux's system suspend way of dealing with interrupts in and around
> the points of no return.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>