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From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@idosch.org>
To: "Drewek, Wojciech" <wojciech.drewek@intel.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	"intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org"
	<intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Kitszel, Przemyslaw" <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>,
	"idosch@nvidia.com" <idosch@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iwl-next v2] ice: Disable Cage Max Power override
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 15:09:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZQwycrJW5nhXu0TF@shredder> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MW4PR11MB5776FD835D06ED08B07D3FD6FDF6A@MW4PR11MB5776.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>

On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 01:15:01PM +0000, Drewek, Wojciech wrote:
> In ice driver port split works per device not per port. According to
> /Documentation/networking/devlink/ice.rst, section "Port split":
> 	The "ice" driver supports port splitting only for port 0, as the FW has
> 	a predefined set of available port split options for the whole device.
> And if you look at available port options (same file) you'll see that in case of "Split count" 1
> only quad 1 is working. And in case of "Split count" 2 the second quad might be used. So, if we
> increase max_pwr in the first quad in case of "Split count" 1 and then switch to "Split count" 2,
> the second quad might end up with no link (because it will have decreased max_pwr).

But there's also an option where the second cage isn't actually used.
Anyway, my suggestion is to allow user space to set / get the max power
using ethtool and give user space visibility about link down reason via
the ethtool extended state.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-21 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-24  8:54 [PATCH iwl-next v2] ice: Disable Cage Max Power override Wojciech Drewek
2023-08-24  9:38 ` Przemek Kitszel
2023-08-24 15:32 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-08-25 11:01   ` Drewek, Wojciech
2023-08-26  0:54     ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-08-27  8:47     ` Ido Schimmel
2023-08-29  9:12       ` Drewek, Wojciech
2023-08-30 15:17         ` Ido Schimmel
2023-09-01 13:34           ` Drewek, Wojciech
2023-09-12 14:26             ` Ido Schimmel
2023-09-15 13:15               ` Drewek, Wojciech
2023-09-21 12:09                 ` Ido Schimmel [this message]
2023-10-05 13:58                   ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Drewek, Wojciech

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