netdev - Re: [PATCH v9 00/14] pci: Work around ASMedia ASM2824 PCIe link training failures

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Message-ID: <20230615183754.GA1483387@bhelgaas>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 13:37:54 -0500
From: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...am.me.uk>
Cc: linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@...il.com>, Stefan Roese <sr@...x.de>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Jim Wilson <wilson@...iptree.org>,
	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
	David Abdurachmanov <david.abdurachmanov@...il.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@...ux.ibm.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Pali Rohár <pali@...nel.org>,
	Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 00/14] pci: Work around ASMedia ASM2824 PCIe link
 training failures

On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 01:41:10AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2023, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> 
> > >  This is v9 of the change to work around a PCIe link training phenomenon 
> > > where a pair of devices both capable of operating at a link speed above 
> > > 2.5GT/s seems unable to negotiate the link speed and continues training 
> > > indefinitely with the Link Training bit switching on and off repeatedly 
> > > and the data link layer never reaching the active state.
> > > 
> > >  With several requests addressed and a few extra issues spotted this
> > > version has now grown to 14 patches.  It has been verified for device 
> > > enumeration with and without PCI_QUIRKS enabled, using the same piece of 
> > > RISC-V hardware as previously.  Hot plug or reset events have not been 
> > > verified, as this is difficult if at all feasible with hardware in 
> > > question.

> >  static int pci_dev_wait(struct pci_dev *dev, char *reset_type, int timeout)
> >  {
> > -	bool retrain = true;
> >  	int delay = 1;
> > +	bool retrain = false;
> > +	struct pci_dev *bridge;
> > +
> > +	if (pci_is_pcie(dev)) {
> > +		retrain = true;
> > +		bridge = pci_upstream_bridge(dev);
> > +	}
> 
>  If doing it this way, which I actually like, I think it would be a little 
> bit better performance- and style-wise if this was written as:
> 
> 	if (pci_is_pcie(dev)) {
> 		bridge = pci_upstream_bridge(dev);
> 		retrain = !!bridge;
> 	}
> 
> (or "retrain = bridge != NULL" if you prefer this style), and then we 
> don't have to repeatedly check two variables iff (pcie && !bridge) in the 
> loop below:

Done, thanks, I do like that better.  I did:

  bridge = pci_upstream_bridge(dev);
  if (bridge)
    retrain = true;

because it seems like it flows more naturally when reading.

Bjorn