Re: [PATCH net-next v1] net: microchip: lan743x: Reduce PTP timeout on HW failure

[<Rengarajan.S@microchip.com>]

On Tue, 2024-05-07 at 03:33 +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
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> On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 10:33:00AM +0530, Rengarajan S wrote:
> > The PTP_CMD_CTL is a self clearing register which controls the PTP
> > clock
> > values. In the current implementation driver waits for a duration
> > of 20
> > sec in case of HW failure to clear the PTP_CMD_CTL register bit.
> > This
> > timeout of 20 sec is very long to recognize a HW failure, as it is
> > typically cleared in one clock(<16ns). Hence reducing the timeout
> > to 1 sec
> > would be sufficient to conclude if there is any HW failure
> > observed. The
> > usleep_range will sleep somewhere between 1 msec to 20 msec for
> > each
> > iteration. By setting the PTP_CMD_CTL_TIMEOUT_CNT to 50 the max
> > timeout
> > is extended to 1 sec.
> 
> This patch has already been merged, so this is just for my
> curiosity. The hardware is dead. Does it really matter if we wait 1s
> or 20 seconds. It is still dead? This is a void function. Other than
> reporting that the hardware is dead, nothing is done. So this change
> seems pointless?
> 
>         Andrew

Hi Andrew, based on the customer experience they felt that there might
be cases where the 20-sec delay can cause the issue(reporting the HW to
be dead). For boards with defects/failure on few occasions it was found
that resetting the chip can lead to successful resolution; however,
since we need to wait for 20 sec for chip reset, we found that reducing
the timeout to 1 sec would be optimal.