From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 79E97195811; Thu, 22 Jan 2026 04:04:41 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1769054681; cv=none; b=rGXE+AEp/iqdIglgyVEG6uGemzOBR0TIlzMdtpg/ydXv1Kl30UxEaNxufd+9YjOHzpE+4HziisCJ9BXus3pi0z6utKu3IE5ekmjzPvjSEVLFzaxKhXe2xQAYRaQChNtffc/FkF2vdMfuRASzlRdReyI3pY76GDqVmsINjb/xPCc= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1769054681; c=relaxed/simple; bh=gNw4Mn93YzCI8oJeAeU0yYtwdWCHimW6oGNe77uKZa8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=EBvKeljzNmazAY2cQtudfXo5R1eOugG71L2LX5Dmh2zH2s9OZNNQVKDQTVJnuYTeQMH6luempRs915yY7B0rCWVu1PwN9aHa6p1Yum+nBVLLRjDG8sC4YeoVxfcfEp8vvdxfcuZP3n1gZnPje3wAoX1GrCDMfhfoq1pqDDHp+S4= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=pt1CGfZ0; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="pt1CGfZ0" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C42ABC116C6; Thu, 22 Jan 2026 04:04:40 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1769054681; bh=gNw4Mn93YzCI8oJeAeU0yYtwdWCHimW6oGNe77uKZa8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=pt1CGfZ0vyBhrqFG0Gn5nrZ09yl5Sm3aBudEWgbbxzlxNpYaBja7iES2Y1J8u6fSQ tQ/CbI9RwOnn/Lf79757S7W7G0X5PTI6+NcdPKsT6pDxvsKjaD0Kjv372N97PTZaDM jHtZ9G2uaTHZHuVurk28yJiEiu3ccbQ7KH9FMghVgq9rP7GVKU2IqpAtGxO9zVVIMO aFyJ8OotAKGg9SalUec5uuSLQhF2btQf5o1xDeI2FxM1GK/t8R6FSDYqS5Z2hzO2z7 GhPKpIcFkd2XStdGbLia0x0ukw+x+USb9o54HvqHis3iQEA9NqZdG8UOs1VsDNbvpV MJp/yB0X9vCGA== Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:04:39 -0800 From: Jakub Kicinski To: Vivian Wang Cc: Andrew Lunn , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Paolo Abeni , Yixun Lan , Chukun Pan , Michael Opdenacker , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, spacemit@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] net: spacemit: Clarify stat timeout comments and messages Message-ID: <20260121200439.64c22125@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20260121-k1-ethernet-clarify-stat-timeout-v2-1-76ff1a1168d9@iscas.ac.cn> References: <20260121-k1-ethernet-clarify-stat-timeout-v2-1-76ff1a1168d9@iscas.ac.cn> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:17:18 +0800 Vivian Wang wrote: > This patch isn't a fix for the problem per se, since it is hardware > behavior. The new message and comments, however, should direct those > running into this on new hardware towards a fix. Is it not possible to improve the situation? Is the refclock disappearing because of power saving? Or because the link is down? Because if it's the latter we should be able to skip reading the stats when link is down (still racy but better than waiting in cases we can detect?)