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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
To: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com,
	Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [net-2.6 PATCH] e1000e: enable/disable ASPM L0s and L1 and ERT according to hardware errata
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:43:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100427134335.GA2218@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100427133232.25490.92973.stgit@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 06:33:04AM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> From: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
> 
> Prompted by a previous patch submitted by Matthew Garret <mjg@redhat.com>,
> further digging into errata documentation reveals the current enabling or
> disabling of ASPM L0s and L1 states for certain parts supported by this
> driver are incorrect.  82571 and 82572 should always disable L1.  For
> standard frames, 82573/82574/82583 can enable L1 but L0s must be disabled,
> and for jumbo frames 82573/82574 must disable L1.  This allows for some
> parts to enable L1 in certain configurations leading to better power
> savings.
> 
> Also according to the same errata, Early Receive (ERT) should be disabled
> on 82573 when using jumbo frames.

Looks good. Thanks for digging into this!

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-27 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-27 13:33 [net-2.6 PATCH] e1000e: enable/disable ASPM L0s and L1 and ERT according to hardware errata Jeff Kirsher
2010-04-27 13:43 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2010-04-27 17:18 ` David Miller
2010-04-29  7:46 ` Anton Blanchard
2010-04-29 17:19   ` Allan, Bruce W
2010-04-29 19:04     ` David Miller
2010-04-30 19:27       ` Allan, Bruce W
2010-04-30 19:51         ` David Miller

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