netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4 00/12] Add support for OPEN Alliance 10BASE-T1x MACPHY Serial Interface

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Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 11:22:15 +0000
From: <Parthiban.Veerasooran@...rochip.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 00/12] Add support for OPEN Alliance
 10BASE-T1x MACPHY Serial Interface

Hi Andrew,

On 10/05/24 2:09 am, Andrew Lunn wrote:
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> On Thu, May 09, 2024 at 01:04:52PM +0000, Parthiban.Veerasooran@...rochip.com wrote:
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> On 08/05/24 10:34 pm, Andrew Lunn wrote:
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>>>> Yes. I tried this test. It works as expected.
>>>
>>>>      Each LAN8651 received approximately 3Mbps with lot of "Receive buffer
>>>> overflow error". I think it is expected as the single SPI master has to
>>>> serve both LAN8651 at the same time and both LAN8651 will be receiving
>>>> 10Mbps on each.
>>>
>>> Thanks for testing this.
>>>
>>> This also shows the "Receive buffer overflow error" needs to go away.
>>> Either we don't care at all, and should not enable the interrupt, or
>>> we do care and should increment a counter.
>> Thanks for your comments. I think, I would go for your 2nd proposal
>> because having "Receive buffer overflow error" enabled will indicate the
>> cause of the poor performance.
>>
>> Already we have,
>> tc6->netdev->stats.rx_dropped++;
>> to increment the rx dropped counter in case of receive buffer overflow.
>>
>> May be we can remove the print,
>> net_err_ratelimited("%s: Receive buffer overflow error\n",
>> tc6->netdev->name);
>> as it might lead to additional poor performance by adding some delay.
>>
>> Could you please provide your opinion on this?
> 
> This is your code. Ideally you should decide. I will only add review
> comments if i think it is wrong. Any can decide between any correct
> option.
Sure, thanks for your advice. Let me stick with the above proposal until 
I get any others opinion.

Best regards,
Parthiban V
> 
>          Andrew
>