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From: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
To: Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>,
	Broadcom internal kernel review list
	<bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
	Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Justin Chen <justin.chen@broadcom.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: broadcom: enable jumbo frames on BCM54xx
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:17:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f2c11f68-c787-4897-b5a0-3d05b15f6bb8@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260914094703.1093504-1-nb@tipi-net.de>

On 9/14/26 02:47, Nicolai Buchwitz wrote:
> Jumbo packets need two bits that default to off, extended packet length in
> the auxiliary control register and PCS transmit FIFO elasticity in the
> extended control register. The latter raises the transmit limit from 4.5
> KB to 9 KB at the cost of 16 ns of 1000BASE-T transmit latency, and the
> two together take copper mode to 10 KB.
> 
> Without them such frames are lost on a 100M link while the same frames
> pass at 1G. On a Raspberry Pi CM5, which uses a BCM54210PE, 9142 byte
> frames at 100M are lost 20 out of 20 with the MAC counting every one
> as transmitted. The same frames over the same path at 1G arrive intact.
> 
> Set both, which bcm_phy_enable_jumbo() already does for bcm7xxx. The
> frames then arrive and the payloads check out byte for byte.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
-- 
Florian

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-16 23:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-14  9:47 Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-09-15  9:47 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-15 10:31   ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-09-16 23:17 ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2026-09-17  0:40 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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