From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 1/2] ixgbe: fix slow load times on 82598 nics Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:57:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20090126.205726.187504211.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090123083733.20920.86146.stgit@lost.foo-projects.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org, donald.c.skidmore@intel.com, peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:40328 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751846AbZA0E53 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:57:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090123083733.20920.86146.stgit@lost.foo-projects.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jeff Kirsher Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:37:33 -0800 > Load times for NICs that use i2c to communicate with the phy were taking > ~4.5 sec per port. This fix first checks to see if the link is already > up before calling get_link_capabilities, since if it is we don't need > query the phy for link state. > > Signed-off-by: Don Skidmore > Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher Applied.