Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] net: phy: mscc-miim: use more reasonable delays

[Alexandre Belloni]

On 26/05/2020 18:22:53+0200, Antoine Ténart wrote:
> The MSCC MIIM MDIO driver uses delays to read poll a status register. I
> made multiple tests on a Ocelot PCS120 platform which led me to reduce
> those delays. The delay in between which the polling function is allowed
> to sleep is reduced from 100us to 50us which in almost all cases is a
> good value to succeed at the first retry. The overall delay is also
> lowered as the prior value was really way to high, 10000us is large
> enough.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  drivers/net/phy/mdio-mscc-miim.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mdio-mscc-miim.c b/drivers/net/phy/mdio-mscc-miim.c
> index badbc99bedd3..0b7544f593fb 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio-mscc-miim.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio-mscc-miim.c
> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ static int mscc_miim_wait_ready(struct mii_bus *bus)
>  	u32 val;
>  
>  	readl_poll_timeout(miim->regs + MSCC_MIIM_REG_STATUS, val,
> -			   !(val & MSCC_MIIM_STATUS_STAT_BUSY), 100, 250000);
> +			   !(val & MSCC_MIIM_STATUS_STAT_BUSY), 50, 10000);
>  	if (val & MSCC_MIIM_STATUS_STAT_BUSY)
>  		return -ETIMEDOUT;
>  
> -- 
> 2.26.2
> 

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