netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] r8169: Coalesce RTL8411b PHY power-down recovery programming instructions to reduce spinlock stalls

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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2023 13:38:31 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Mirsad Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@....unizg.hr>
Cc: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, nic_swsd@...ltek.com,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] r8169: Coalesce RTL8411b PHY power-down recovery
 programming instructions to reduce spinlock stalls

On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 04:35:19AM +0100, Mirsad Todorovac wrote:
> On 10/31/23 02:21, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > I will not contradict, but the cummulative amount of memory barriers on each MMIO read/write
> > > in each single one of the drivers could amount to some degrading of overall performance and
> > > latency in a multicore system.
> > 
> > For optimisations, we like to see benchmark results which show some
> > improvements. Do you have any numbers?
> 
> Hi, Andrew,
> 
> Thank you for your interest in RTL NIC driver optimisations.
> 
> My knowledge about the timing costs of synchronisation is mostly theoretical.

The kernel tends to be very practical. Maybe try to turn the
theoretical knowledge into practice. Write a benchmark test, or see if
any of the existing RT Linux tests show there is a real problem here,
and your changes fix it.

	Andrew