Re: [RFC PATCH v7 16/16] net: dsa: qca8k: introduce qca8k_bulk_read/write function

[Florian Fainelli]

On 1/22/2022 5:33 PM, Ansuel Smith wrote:
> Introduce qca8k_bulk_read/write() function to use mgmt Ethernet way to
> read/write packet in bulk. Make use of this new function in the fdb
> function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---

[snip]

>   static int
>   qca8k_regmap_read(void *ctx, uint32_t reg, uint32_t *val)
>   {
> @@ -535,17 +572,13 @@ qca8k_busy_wait(struct qca8k_priv *priv, u32 reg, u32 mask)
>   static int
>   qca8k_fdb_read(struct qca8k_priv *priv, struct qca8k_fdb *fdb)
>   {
> -	u32 reg[4], val;
> -	int i, ret;
> +	u32 reg[4];
> +	int ret;
>   
>   	/* load the ARL table into an array */
> -	for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
> -		ret = qca8k_read(priv, QCA8K_REG_ATU_DATA0 + (i * 4), &val);
> -		if (ret < 0)
> -			return ret;
> -
> -		reg[i] = val;
> -	}
> +	ret = qca8k_bulk_read(priv, QCA8K_REG_ATU_DATA0, reg, 12);

sizeof(reg)? How did you come up with 12 if we were executing the loop 4 
times before or were we reading too much?

> +	if (ret)
> +		return ret;
>   
>   	/* vid - 83:72 */
>   	fdb->vid = FIELD_GET(QCA8K_ATU_VID_MASK, reg[2]);
> @@ -569,7 +602,6 @@ qca8k_fdb_write(struct qca8k_priv *priv, u16 vid, u8 port_mask, const u8 *mac,
>   		u8 aging)
>   {
>   	u32 reg[3] = { 0 };
> -	int i;
>   
>   	/* vid - 83:72 */
>   	reg[2] = FIELD_PREP(QCA8K_ATU_VID_MASK, vid);
> @@ -586,8 +618,7 @@ qca8k_fdb_write(struct qca8k_priv *priv, u16 vid, u8 port_mask, const u8 *mac,
>   	reg[0] |= FIELD_PREP(QCA8K_ATU_ADDR5_MASK, mac[5]);
>   
>   	/* load the array into the ARL table */
> -	for (i = 0; i < 3; i++)
> -		qca8k_write(priv, QCA8K_REG_ATU_DATA0 + (i * 4), reg[i]);
> +	qca8k_bulk_write(priv, QCA8K_REG_ATU_DATA0, reg, 12);

sizeof(reg) would be more adequate here.
--
Florian