[PATCH 2/2] netdev/fec: fix performance impact from mdio poll operation

Bryan Wu bryan.wu at canonical.com
Thu Apr 8 06:44:59 UTC 2010


BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/546649
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/457878

After introducing phylib supporting, users experienced performace drop. That is
because of the mdio polling operation of phylib. Use msleep to replace the busy
waiting cpu_relax() and remove the warning message.

Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/fec.c |   45 +++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/fec.c b/drivers/net/fec.c
index 53240d3..2280373 100644
--- a/drivers/net/fec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/fec.c
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ static void fec_stop(struct net_device *dev);
 #define FEC_MMFR_TA		(2 << 16)
 #define FEC_MMFR_DATA(v)	(v & 0xffff)
 
-#define FEC_MII_TIMEOUT		10000
+#define FEC_MII_TIMEOUT		10
 
 /* Transmitter timeout */
 #define TX_TIMEOUT (2 * HZ)
@@ -624,13 +624,29 @@ spin_unlock:
 /*
  * NOTE: a MII transaction is during around 25 us, so polling it...
  */
-static int fec_enet_mdio_read(struct mii_bus *bus, int mii_id, int regnum)
+static int fec_enet_mdio_poll(struct fec_enet_private *fep)
 {
-	struct fec_enet_private *fep = bus->priv;
 	int timeout = FEC_MII_TIMEOUT;
 
 	fep->mii_timeout = 0;
 
+	/* wait for end of transfer */
+	while (!(readl(fep->hwp + FEC_IEVENT) & FEC_ENET_MII)) {
+		msleep(1);
+		if (timeout-- < 0) {
+			fep->mii_timeout = 1;
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int fec_enet_mdio_read(struct mii_bus *bus, int mii_id, int regnum)
+{
+	struct fec_enet_private *fep = bus->priv;
+
+
 	/* clear MII end of transfer bit*/
 	writel(FEC_ENET_MII, fep->hwp + FEC_IEVENT);
 
@@ -639,15 +655,7 @@ static int fec_enet_mdio_read(struct mii_bus *bus, int mii_id, int regnum)
 		FEC_MMFR_PA(mii_id) | FEC_MMFR_RA(regnum) |
 		FEC_MMFR_TA, fep->hwp + FEC_MII_DATA);
 
-	/* wait for end of transfer */
-	while (!(readl(fep->hwp + FEC_IEVENT) & FEC_ENET_MII)) {
-		cpu_relax();
-		if (timeout-- < 0) {
-			fep->mii_timeout = 1;
-			printk(KERN_ERR "FEC: MDIO read timeout\n");
-			return -ETIMEDOUT;
-		}
-	}
+	fec_enet_mdio_poll(fep);
 
 	/* return value */
 	return FEC_MMFR_DATA(readl(fep->hwp + FEC_MII_DATA));
@@ -657,9 +665,6 @@ static int fec_enet_mdio_write(struct mii_bus *bus, int mii_id, int regnum,
 			   u16 value)
 {
 	struct fec_enet_private *fep = bus->priv;
-	int timeout = FEC_MII_TIMEOUT;
-
-	fep->mii_timeout = 0;
 
 	/* clear MII end of transfer bit*/
 	writel(FEC_ENET_MII, fep->hwp + FEC_IEVENT);
@@ -670,15 +675,7 @@ static int fec_enet_mdio_write(struct mii_bus *bus, int mii_id, int regnum,
 		FEC_MMFR_TA | FEC_MMFR_DATA(value),
 		fep->hwp + FEC_MII_DATA);
 
-	/* wait for end of transfer */
-	while (!(readl(fep->hwp + FEC_IEVENT) & FEC_ENET_MII)) {
-		cpu_relax();
-		if (timeout-- < 0) {
-			fep->mii_timeout = 1;
-			printk(KERN_ERR "FEC: MDIO write timeout\n");
-			return -ETIMEDOUT;
-		}
-	}
+	fec_enet_mdio_poll(fep);
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
1.7.0.1





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