r8169: don't advertise pause in jumbo mode
authorHeiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Wed, 14 Apr 2021 08:47:10 +0000 (10:47 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:56:18 +0000 (12:56 +0200)
[ Upstream commit 453a77894efa4d9b6ef9644d74b9419c47ac427c ]

It has been reported [0] that using pause frames in jumbo mode impacts
performance. There's no available chip documentation, but vendor
drivers r8168 and r8125 don't advertise pause in jumbo mode. So let's
do the same, according to Roman it fixes the issue.

[0] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212617

Fixes: 9cf9b84cc701 ("r8169: make use of phy_set_asym_pause")
Reported-by: Roman Mamedov <rm+bko@romanrm.net>
Tested-by: Roman Mamedov <rm+bko@romanrm.net>
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c

index 4e4953b1433a50f64ed3458456f9ecae7ac69b6d..8ff178fc2670c2c986d31809d544c595c0bee362 100644 (file)
@@ -4138,6 +4138,13 @@ static void rtl_jumbo_config(struct rtl8169_private *tp)
 
        if (pci_is_pcie(tp->pci_dev) && tp->supports_gmii)
                pcie_set_readrq(tp->pci_dev, readrq);
+
+       /* Chip doesn't support pause in jumbo mode */
+       linkmode_mod_bit(ETHTOOL_LINK_MODE_Pause_BIT,
+                        tp->phydev->advertising, !jumbo);
+       linkmode_mod_bit(ETHTOOL_LINK_MODE_Asym_Pause_BIT,
+                        tp->phydev->advertising, !jumbo);
+       phy_start_aneg(tp->phydev);
 }
 
 DECLARE_RTL_COND(rtl_chipcmd_cond)
@@ -6314,8 +6321,6 @@ static int r8169_phy_connect(struct rtl8169_private *tp)
        if (!tp->supports_gmii)
                phy_set_max_speed(phydev, SPEED_100);
 
-       phy_support_asym_pause(phydev);
-
        phy_attached_info(phydev);
 
        return 0;