> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, November 23, 2020 5:52 PM
> To: Stefan Chulski <[email protected]>
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> [email protected]; Nadav Haklai <[email protected]>; Yan Markman
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> Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v1] net: mvpp2: divide fifo for dts-active ports
> only
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> On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 03:44:05PM +0000, Stefan Chulski wrote:
> > Yes, but this allocation exists also in current code.
> > From HW point of view(MAC and PPv2) maximum supported speed in CP110:
> > port 0 - 10G, port 1 - 2.5G, port 2 - 2.5G.
> > in CP115: port 0 - 10G, port 1 - 5G, port 2 - 2.5G.
> >
> > So this allocation looks correct at least for CP115.
> > Problem that we cannot reallocate FIFO during runtime, after specific speed
> negotiation.
>
> We could do much better. DT has a "max-speed" property for ethernet
> controllers. If we have that property, then I think we should use that to
> determine the initialisation time FIFO allocation.
>
> As I say, on Macchiatobin, the allocations we end up with are just crazy when
> you consider the port speeds that the hardware supports.
> Maybe that should be done as a follow-on patch - but I think it needs to be
> done.
I agree with you. We can use "max-speed" for better FIFO allocations.
I plan to upstream more fixes from the "Marvell" devel branch then I can
prepare this patch.
So you OK with this patch and then follow-on improvement?
Regards.
