From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Vivian Wang <wangruikang@iscas.ac.cn>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Yixun Lan <dlan@gentoo.org>,
Chukun Pan <amadeus@jmu.edu.cn>,
Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@rootcommit.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
spacemit@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] net: spacemit: Clarify stat timeout comments and messages
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:04:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260121200439.64c22125@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260121-k1-ethernet-clarify-stat-timeout-v2-1-76ff1a1168d9@iscas.ac.cn>
On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:17:18 +0800 Vivian Wang wrote:
> This patch isn't a fix for the problem per se, since it is hardware
> behavior. The new message and comments, however, should direct those
> running into this on new hardware towards a fix.
Is it not possible to improve the situation?
Is the refclock disappearing because of power saving?
Or because the link is down?
Because if it's the latter we should be able to skip reading the stats
when link is down (still racy but better than waiting in cases we can
detect?)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-22 4:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-21 2:17 [PATCH net v2] net: spacemit: Clarify stat timeout comments and messages Vivian Wang
2026-01-22 4:04 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2026-01-22 10:39 ` Vivian Wang
2026-01-22 11:51 ` Paolo Abeni
2026-01-22 15:30 ` Jakub Kicinski
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