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Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] net: dsa: Do not clobber PHY link outside of state machine

From Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] net: dsa: Do not clobber PHY link outside of state machine
Date 2017-02-07 14:20 +0100
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> 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

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[PATCH net-next 0/4] net: Incorrect use of phy_read_status() Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2017-02-07 01:00 +0100
  [PATCH net-next 4/4] net: dsa: Do not clobber PHY link outside of state machine Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2017-02-07 01:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] net: dsa: Do not clobber PHY link outside  of state machine Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> - 2017-02-07 01:20 +0100
      RE: [PATCH net-next 4/4] net: dsa: Do not clobber PHY link outside  of state machine David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> - 2017-02-07 12:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] net: dsa: Do not clobber PHY link outside  of state machine Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> - 2017-02-07 14:20 +0100
  [PATCH net-next 3/4] net: netcp: Do not clobber PHY link outside of state machine Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2017-02-07 01:00 +0100
  [PATCH net-next 2/4] net: pxa168_eth: Do not clobber PHY link outside of state machine Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2017-02-07 01:00 +0100
  [PATCH net-next 1/4] net: mv643xx_eth: Do not clobber PHY link outside of state machine Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2017-02-07 01:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] net: mv643xx_eth: Do not clobber PHY link  outside of state machine Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> - 2017-02-07 01:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: Incorrect use of phy_read_status() David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-02-07 20:00 +0100

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