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* [PATCH net-next v2 0/3] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: accelerate C45 scan
@ 2023-03-11 20:31 Klaus Kudielka
  2023-03-11 20:31 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/3] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: re-order functions Klaus Kudielka
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From: Klaus Kudielka @ 2023-03-11 20:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Lunn
  Cc: Florian Fainelli, Vladimir Oltean, David S. Miller, Eric Dumazet,
	Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Richard Cochran, netdev,
	linux-kernel, Klaus Kudielka

Starting with commit 1a136ca2e089 ("net: mdio: scan bus based on bus
capabilities for C22 and C45"), mdiobus_scan_bus_c45() is being called on
buses with MDIOBUS_NO_CAP. On a Turris Omnia (Armada 385, 88E6176 switch),
this causes a significant increase of boot time, from 1.6 seconds, to 6.3
seconds. The boot time stated here is until start of /init.

Further testing revealed that the C45 scan is indeed expensive (around
2.7 seconds, due to a huge number of bus transactions), and called twice.

Two things were suggested:
(1) to move the expensive call of mv88e6xxx_mdios_register() from
    mv88e6xxx_probe() to mv88e6xxx_setup().
(2) to mask apparently non-existing phys during probing.

With those two changes, boot time on the Turris Omnia is back to normal.

Patch #1 is preparatory code movement, without functional change.
The remaining two patches implement the suggestions above.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/449bde236c08d5ab5e54abd73b645d8b29955894.camel@gmail.com/

Changes in v2:
Add cover letter
Extend the cleanup in mv88e6xxx_setup() to remove the mdio bus on failure 
Add separate patch for phy masking

Klaus Kudielka (3):
  net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: re-order functions
  net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: move call to mv88e6xxx_mdios_register()
  net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: mask apparently non-existing phys during probing

 drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/chip.c | 381 ++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 192 insertions(+), 189 deletions(-)

-- 
2.39.2


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