Re: [RFC] net: stmmac: keep RXC running in LPI mode to avoid system overload

2013-10-16 Thread Giuseppe CAVALLARO
Hello Romain On 10/13/2013 10:02 PM, Romain Baeriswyl wrote: Hello Guiseppe, Thanks for your answer. Please find below some details and answers. In order to avoid system overload, the clock RXC from the Phy should not be stopped when in LPI mode. With the RTL8211E PHY which support EEE mode a

Re: [RFC] net: stmmac: keep RXC running in LPI mode to avoid system overload

2013-10-13 Thread Romain Baeriswyl
Hello Guiseppe, Thanks for your answer. Please find below some details and answers. > > In order to avoid system overload, the clock RXC from the Phy > > should not be > > stopped when in LPI mode. > > > > With the RTL8211E PHY which support EEE mode and with Apple Airport > > Extreme that > > su

Re: [RFC] net: stmmac: keep RXC running in LPI mode to avoid system overload

2013-10-09 Thread Giuseppe CAVALLARO
Hello Romain On 10/8/2013 5:06 PM, Romain Baeriswyl wrote: In order to avoid system overload, the clock RXC from the Phy should not be stopped when in LPI mode. With the RTL8211E PHY which support EEE mode and with Apple Airport Extreme that supports it also, the kernel get frozen as soon as so

[RFC] net: stmmac: keep RXC running in LPI mode to avoid system overload

2013-10-08 Thread Romain Baeriswyl
In order to avoid system overload, the clock RXC from the Phy should not be stopped when in LPI mode. With the RTL8211E PHY which support EEE mode and with Apple Airport Extreme that supports it also, the kernel get frozen as soon as some Ethernet transfers are on-going. System seems to be ove