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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"zefir.kurtisi@neratec.com" <zefir.kurtisi@neratec.com>,
	Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>,
	Wingman Kwok <w-kwok2@ti.com>,
	Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@ti.com>,
	Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Philippe Reynes <tremyfr@gmail.com>,
	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>,
	Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com>,
	Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] net: dsa: Do not clobber PHY link outside of state machine
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 14:14:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170207131440.GF31560@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6DB027DB40@AcuExch.aculab.com>

> Related is that polling the phy status every second can be bad news for
> system latency.
> Typically it involves bit-bashing an interface with spin-delays to
> meet the slow timings (with extra delays to allow for posted writes).
> An alternative would be to do a very slow bit-bang on each timer tick,
> this would need to be sped up and finished before any other actions.

Or just use PHY interrupts. That completely stops the MDIO polling.

   Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-07 13:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-06 23:55 [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: Incorrect use of phy_read_status() Florian Fainelli
2017-02-06 23:55 ` [PATCH net-next 1/4] net: mv643xx_eth: Do not clobber PHY link outside of state machine Florian Fainelli
2017-02-07  0:13   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-02-06 23:55 ` [PATCH net-next 2/4] net: pxa168_eth: " Florian Fainelli
2017-02-06 23:55 ` [PATCH net-next 3/4] net: netcp: " Florian Fainelli
2017-02-06 23:55 ` [PATCH net-next 4/4] net: dsa: " Florian Fainelli
2017-02-07  0:11   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-02-07 11:42     ` David Laight
2017-02-07 13:14       ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2017-02-07 18:48 ` [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: Incorrect use of phy_read_status() David Miller

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