Re: [PATCH v8 RESEND 1/6] r8169: Disable ASPM L1.1 on 8168h

[Kai-Heng Feng]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 7:09 PM Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 21.02.2023 03:38, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> > ASPM L1/L1.1 gets enabled based on [0], but ASPM L1.1 was actually
> > disabled too [1].
> >
> > So also disable L1.1 for better compatibility.
> >
> > [0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1942830
> > [1] https://git.launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux-oem/+git/focal/commit/?id=c9b3736de48fd419d6699045d59a0dd1041da014
> >
> These references are about problems with L1.2 (which is disabled
> per default in mainline). They don't allow any statement about whether
> L1.1 is problematic too (and under which circumstances).
> At least on my system with RTL8168h there's no problem with L1.1
> when running iperf.

There are some systems have performance issue with L1.1 too.
But since the series will disable chip-side ASPM during NAPI poll,
maybe we can keep both L1.1 and L1.2 enabled?

Kai-Heng

>
> > Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > v8:
> >  - New patch.
> >
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c | 6 +++---
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
> > index 45147a1016bec..1c949822661ae 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
> > @@ -5224,13 +5224,13 @@ static int rtl_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
> >
> >       /* Disable ASPM L1 as that cause random device stop working
> >        * problems as well as full system hangs for some PCIe devices users.
> > -      * Chips from RTL8168h partially have issues with L1.2, but seem
> > -      * to work fine with L1 and L1.1.
> > +      * Chips from RTL8168h partially have issues with L1.1 and L1.2, but
> > +      * seem to work fine with L1.
> >        */
> >       if (rtl_aspm_is_safe(tp))
> >               rc = 0;
> >       else if (tp->mac_version >= RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_46)
> > -             rc = pci_disable_link_state(pdev, PCIE_LINK_STATE_L1_2);
> > +             rc = pci_disable_link_state(pdev, PCIE_LINK_STATE_L1_1 | PCIE_LINK_STATE_L1_2);
> >       else
> >               rc = pci_disable_link_state(pdev, PCIE_LINK_STATE_L1);
> >       tp->aspm_manageable = !rc;
>