[SRU][F:linux-bluefield][PATCH v1 1/1] mlxbf_gige: increase MDIO polling rate to 5us

David Thompson davthompson at nvidia.com
Thu May 19 22:49:35 UTC 2022


BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1974246

This patch increases the polling rate used by the
mlxbf_gige driver on the MDIO bus.  The previous
polling rate was every 100us, and the new rate is
every 5us.  With this change the amount of time
spent waiting for the MDIO BUSY signal to de-assert
drops from ~100us to ~27us for each operation.

Signed-off-by: David Thompson <davthompson at nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Asmaa Mnebhi <asmaa at nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220505162309.20050-1-davthompson@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxbf_gige/mlxbf_gige_mdio.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxbf_gige/mlxbf_gige_mdio.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxbf_gige/mlxbf_gige_mdio.c
index e32dd34fdcc0..6c8a4a529645 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxbf_gige/mlxbf_gige_mdio.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxbf_gige/mlxbf_gige_mdio.c
@@ -105,7 +105,8 @@ static int mlxbf_gige_mdio_read(struct mii_bus *bus, int phy_add, int phy_reg)
 	writel(cmd, priv->mdio_io + MLXBF_GIGE_MDIO_GW_OFFSET);
 
 	ret = readl_poll_timeout_atomic(priv->mdio_io + MLXBF_GIGE_MDIO_GW_OFFSET,
-					val, !(val & MLXBF_GIGE_MDIO_GW_BUSY_MASK), 100, 1000000);
+					val, !(val & MLXBF_GIGE_MDIO_GW_BUSY_MASK),
+					5, 1000000);
 
 	if (ret) {
 		writel(0, priv->mdio_io + MLXBF_GIGE_MDIO_GW_OFFSET);
@@ -137,7 +138,8 @@ static int mlxbf_gige_mdio_write(struct mii_bus *bus, int phy_add,
 
 	/* If the poll timed out, drop the request */
 	ret = readl_poll_timeout_atomic(priv->mdio_io + MLXBF_GIGE_MDIO_GW_OFFSET,
-					temp, !(temp & MLXBF_GIGE_MDIO_GW_BUSY_MASK), 100, 1000000);
+					temp, !(temp & MLXBF_GIGE_MDIO_GW_BUSY_MASK),
+					5, 1000000);
 
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
2.30.1




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