[PATCH] ARM64: meson-gxl: disable broken eee

[narmstrong@baylibre.com (Neil Armstrong)]

On 07/23/2017 07:03 PM, Joseph Kogut wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> I tested on a P212 reference board, which is currently the only GXL
> based board I have.
> 
> Before applying the patch, high activity on the ethernet interface
> would cause the link to break, requiring the interface to be brought
> down and back up before it would work again. After applying the patch,
> I could not get the link to break with any transfers.
> 
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Hi Joseph,

[please keep the history of the conversation when replying]

Is it a original P212 board, or a board based on the P212 ref design ?

I'm currently testing the v4.13-rc2 on the official P212 board we received from Amlogic
and using iperf3 in both directions, I have an issue after a few minutes running iperf3 with :

# while true ; do iperf3 -c 192.168.1.21 ; iperf3 -c 192.168.1.21 -R ; done

That cycles between the two iperf directions.

After a few minutes, it stalls with :

Connecting to host 192.168.1.21, port 5201
[  4] local 192.168.1.183 port 51286 connected to 192.168.1.21 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr  Cwnd
[  4]   0.00-1.00   sec  1.64 MBytes  13.7 Mbits/sec    2   1.41 KBytes
[  4]   1.00-2.00   sec  0.00 Bytes  0.00 bits/sec    1   1.41 KBytes
[  4]   2.00-3.00   sec  0.00 Bytes  0.00 bits/sec    0   1.41 KBytes
[  4]   3.00-4.00   sec  0.00 Bytes  0.00 bits/sec    1   1.41 KBytes
[  4]   4.00-5.00   sec  0.00 Bytes  0.00 bits/sec    0   1.41 KBytes
[  4]   5.00-6.00   sec  0.00 Bytes  0.00 bits/sec    0   1.41 KBytes
[  4]   6.00-7.00   sec  0.00 Bytes  0.00 bits/sec    1   1.41 KBytes
[  4]   7.00-8.00   sec  0.00 Bytes  0.00 bits/sec    0   1.41 KBytes
[  4]   8.00-9.00   sec  0.00 Bytes  0.00 bits/sec    0   1.41 KBytes


And then, after:
# ifconfig eth0 down
# ifconfig eth0 up

It cycles between :
[ 1483.009919] meson8b-dwmac c9410000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up - 100Mbps/Full - flow control rx/tx
[ 1487.105725] meson8b-dwmac c9410000.ethernet eth0: Link is Down
[ 1490.177943] meson8b-dwmac c9410000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up - 100Mbps/Full - flow control rx/tx
[ 1494.273713] meson8b-dwmac c9410000.ethernet eth0: Link is Down

and so on.

And this patch does not fix this at all.

It seems to be more a PHY driver issue here.

Could you share the results with the same command ?

Neil