From: "Eric Bénard" <eric@eukrea.com>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] fec: restart autoneg at open instead of init
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 09:30:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120907093000.35f2227d@eb-e6520> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120907065703.GM26594@pengutronix.de>
Hi Sascha,
Le Fri, 7 Sep 2012 08:57:03 +0200,
Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> a écrit :
> Hi Eric,
>
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 09:39:29PM +0200, Eric Bénard wrote:
> > this saves some time during boot when ethernet is not needed in barebox
>
> Is this really significant on your hardware? I made a measurement here
> and the miidev_restart_aneg() takes 130us on an i.MX27 board.
>
> The original intention of doing it at init time was that autonegotation
> is already completed when we actually use the network. And this time
> really is significant:
>
> without the patch:
>
> barebox@Phytec phyCORE-i.MX27:/ time ping 192.168.23.4
> warning: No MAC address set. Using random address 62:FE:FE:0B:09:A8
> phy0: Link is up - 100/Full
> host 192.168.23.4 is alive
> time: 10ms
>
> with the patch:
>
> barebox@Phytec phyCORE-i.MX27:/ time ping 192.168.23.4
> warning: No MAC address set. Using random address A6:1B:AB:80:FA:E7
> phy0: Link is up - 100/Full
> host 192.168.23.4 is alive
> time: 2040ms
>
that strange. I don't see why miidev_restart_aneg() would take less
time at boot than at open.
Eric
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-06 19:39 Eric Bénard
2012-09-06 19:39 ` [PATCH 2/3] i.MX51: unbreak FEC iomux Eric Bénard
2012-09-07 8:30 ` Sascha Hauer
2012-09-06 19:39 ` [PATCH 3/3] miidev: fix 1G wrong detection Eric Bénard
2012-09-06 21:52 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-07 6:44 ` Sascha Hauer
2012-09-07 7:28 ` Eric Bénard
2012-09-07 8:23 ` Sascha Hauer
2012-09-07 7:43 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-07 8:52 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2012-09-07 9:02 ` Eric Bénard
2012-09-07 9:28 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2012-09-07 9:32 ` Eric Bénard
2012-09-14 7:03 ` Sascha Hauer
2012-09-07 6:57 ` [PATCH 1/3] fec: restart autoneg at open instead of init Sascha Hauer
2012-09-07 7:30 ` Eric Bénard [this message]
2012-09-07 7:47 ` Sascha Hauer
2012-09-07 7:51 ` Eric Bénard
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2012-09-06 19:38 Eric Bénard
2012-09-06 21:52 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-10 7:43 ` Sascha Hauer
2012-09-10 7:51 ` Eric Bénard
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