Re: [PATCH] Use maximum latency when determining L1/L0s ASPM v2

[Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 11:36:00PM +0200, Ian Kumlien wrote:

> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=66ff14e59e8a
> 
> "7d715a6c1ae5 ("PCI: add PCI Express ASPM support") added the ability for
> Linux to enable ASPM, but for some undocumented reason, it didn't enable
> ASPM on links where the downstream component is a PCIe-to-PCI/PCI-X Bridge.
> 
> Remove this exclusion so we can enable ASPM on these links."
> ...

> And all of this worked before the commit above.

OK, really sorry, I got myself totally confused here, and I need to
start over from scratch.  Correct me when I go off the rails.

You're running 5.8.11+, and you get ~40 Mbit/s on the Intel I211 NIC.
Reverting 66ff14e59e8a ("PCI/ASPM: Allow ASPM on links to
PCIe-to-PCI/PCI-X Bridges") gets your bandwidth up to the 900+ Mbit/s
you expect.

66ff14e59e8a only makes a difference if you have a PCIe-to-PCI/PCI-X
Bridge (PCI_EXP_TYPE_PCI_BRIDGE) in your system.  But from your lspci
and pci=earlydump output, I don't see any of those.  The only bridges
I see are:

[    0.810346] pci 0000:00:01.2: [1022:1483] type 01 Root Port to [bus 01-07]
[    0.810587] pci 0000:00:03.1: [1022:1483] type 01 Root Port to [bus 08]
[    0.810587] pci 0000:00:03.2: [1022:1483] type 01 Root Port to [bus 09]
[    0.810837] pci 0000:00:07.1: [1022:1484] type 01 Root Port to [bus 0a]
[    0.811587] pci 0000:00:08.1: [1022:1484] type 01 Root Port to [bus 0b]
[    0.812586] pci 0000:01:00.0: [1022:57ad] type 01 Upstream Port to [bus 02-07]
[    0.812629] pci 0000:02:03.0: [1022:57a3] type 01 Downstream Port to [bus 03]
[    0.813584] pci 0000:02:04.0: [1022:57a3] type 01 Downstream Port to [bus 04]
[    0.814584] pci 0000:02:08.0: [1022:57a4] type 01 Downstream Port to [bus 05]
[    0.815584] pci 0000:02:09.0: [1022:57a4] type 01 Downstream Port to [bus 06]
[    0.815584] pci 0000:02:0a.0: [1022:57a4] type 01 Downstream Port to [bus 07]

So I'm lost right off the bat.  You have no PCI_EXP_TYPE_PCI_BRIDGE
device, so how can 66ff14e59e8a make a difference for you?

Can you add a printk there, e.g.,

        list_for_each_entry(child, &linkbus->devices, bus_list) {
                if (pci_pcie_type(child) == PCI_EXP_TYPE_PCI_BRIDGE) {
  +                     pci_info(child, "PCIe-to-PCI bridge, disabling ASPM\n");
                        link->aspm_disable = ASPM_STATE_ALL;
                        break;
                }
        }