Re: [PATCH net 5/6] net: hns3: fix wrong print link down up

[Jijie Shao]

on 2023/7/31 17:10, Jijie Shao wrote:
> What PHY driver is this?
> > It is not so clear what should actually happen with auto-neg turned
> > off. With it on, and the link going down, the PHY should react after
> > about 1 second. It is not supposed to react faster than that, although
> > some PHYs allow fast link down notification to be configured.
> >
> > Have you checked 802.3 to see what it says about auto-neg off and link
> > down detection?
> >
> > I personally would not suppress this behaviour in the MAC
> > driver. Otherwise you are going to have funny combinations of special
> > cases of a feature which very few people actually use, making your
> > maintenance costs higher.
> >
> >         Andrew

Hi Andrew,
We trace how the PHY state machine changed and show as followed:

[ 1974.220847][ T362] hns3 0000:35:00.0 eth1: set link(phy): autoneg=0, 
speed=100, duplex=1
[ 1974.233694][ T362] hns3 0000:35:00.0 eth1: link down
[ 1974.267444][ T32] RTL8211F Gigabit Ethernet mii-0000:35:00.0:02: PHY 
state change UP -> RUNNING
[ 1974.892830][ T7] hns3 0000:35:00.0 eth1: link up
[ 2004.277425][ T32] RTL8211F Gigabit Ethernet mii-0000:35:00.0:02: PHY 
state change RUNNING -> NOLINK
[ 2004.797731][ T7] hns3 0000:35:00.0 eth1: link down

Meanwhile, we also open tracing event about mdio and here are some 
useful logs:

kworker/1:0-19 [001] .... 1973.329775: mdio_access: mii-0000:35:00.0 
read phy:0x02 reg:0x00 val:0x1040
kworker/1:0-19 [001] .... 1973.331964: mdio_access: mii-0000:35:00.0 
read phy:0x02 reg:0x01 val:0x79ad
kworker/2:1-32 [002] .... 1974.247627: mdio_access: mii-0000:35:00.0 
read phy:0x02 reg:0x00 val:0x1040
kworker/2:1-32 [002] .... 1974.249870: mdio_access: mii-0000:35:00.0 
write phy:0x02 reg:0x00 val:0x2100
kworker/2:1-32 [002] .... 1974.252069: mdio_access: mii-0000:35:00.0 
read phy:0x02 reg:0x00 val:0x2100
kworker/2:1-32 [002] .... 1974.254143: mdio_access: mii-0000:35:00.0 
read phy:0x02 reg:0x01 val:0x798d
....
kworker/2:1-32 [002] .... 2003.240015: mdio_access: mii-0000:35:00.0 
read phy:0x02 reg:0x01 val:0x798d
....
kworker/2:1-32 [002] .... 2004.269525: mdio_access: mii-0000:35:00.0 
read phy:0x02 reg:0x01 val:0x7989

As you can see, the link state changed after 30 seconds when only 
setting autoneg off. When the BMSR changed, the PHY driver change state 
immediately. This patch wants to fixed the first link down up showed on 
logs cause the link do not changed.


Regards
Jijie Shao