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Message-ID: <7c28bbea-0b3f-ee62-05c8-e6f1bc738b0b@omp.ru>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 23:40:04 +0300
From: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@....ru>
To: Paul Barker <paul.barker.ct@...renesas.com>, "David S . Miller"
<davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski
<kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
CC: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@...esas.com>, Wolfram Sang
<wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
<linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v2 6/7] net: ravb: Enable SW IRQ Coalescing
for GbEth
On 2/12/24 2:45 PM, Paul Barker wrote:
[...]
>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb.h
>>> index 55a7a08aabef..ca7a66759e35 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb.h
>>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb.h
>>> @@ -1078,6 +1078,7 @@ struct ravb_hw_info {
>>> unsigned nc_queues:1; /* AVB-DMAC has RX and TX NC queues */
>>> unsigned magic_pkt:1; /* E-MAC supports magic packet detection */
>>> unsigned half_duplex:1; /* E-MAC supports half duplex mode */
>>> + unsigned needs_irq_coalesce:1; /* Requires SW IRQ Coalescing to achieve best performance */
>>
>> Is this really a hardware feature?
>
> It's more like a requirement to get the best out of this hardware and the Linux networking stack.
>
> I considered checking the compatible string in the probe function but I decided that storing a configuration bit in the HW info struct was cleaner.
Yes, but you added the new bit under the "hardware features" commet. :-)
>> Also, s/Requires SW/Needs software/ and s/to achieve best performance//,
>> please...
>
> Will do.
The comment is too long, I think. :-)
[...]
> Thanks for the review,
> Paul
MBR, Sergey
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