From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
David <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kernel <kernel@savoirfairelinux.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: sleep in _mv88e6xxx_stats_wait
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 17:28:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150718152835.GF17961@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1971016402.292095.1437232999941.JavaMail.zimbra@savoirfairelinux.com>
On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 11:23:19AM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> ----- On Jul 18, 2015, at 10:58 AM, Andrew Lunn andrew@lunn.ch wrote:
>
> >> Good point. The timeout is most definitely quite large and for sure on
> >> the safe side. It might make sense to add some statistics gathering to
> >> see how long the maximum observed delay actually is.
> >
> > Hi All
> >
> > Statistics are something which can be used a lot, i bursts and
> > interactivily. ATU, VTU etc, are much less often used. So different
> > delays might be justified.
> >
> > I agree about doing some statistics gathering to determine actual
> > delays needed.
> >
> > Andrew
>
> What do you think about something like this?
Hi Vivien
Lets get some actually statistics first. I would suggest for testing
you make _mv88e6xxx_wait() a busy loop and time how long it actually
takes for different busy bits to clear. We should also test it on
different families.
Andrew
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-18 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-10 16:57 [PATCH 1/2] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: sleep in _mv88e6xxx_stats_wait Vivien Didelot
2015-07-10 16:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: call _mv88e6xxx_stats_wait with SMI lock held Vivien Didelot
2015-07-10 17:13 ` Guenter
2015-07-10 17:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: sleep in _mv88e6xxx_stats_wait Guenter
2015-07-10 18:20 ` Vivien Didelot
2015-07-10 18:36 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-07-10 19:21 ` Vivien Didelot
2015-07-10 20:05 ` Guenter
2015-07-18 14:58 ` Andrew Lunn
2015-07-18 15:23 ` Vivien Didelot
2015-07-18 15:28 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
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