net: ethernet: fec: Replace interrupt driven MDIO with polled IO
authorAndrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Sun, 19 Apr 2020 22:04:00 +0000 (00:04 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 20 Apr 2020 19:37:07 +0000 (12:37 -0700)
commit29ae6bd1b0d8a57d7c00ab12cbb949fc41986eef
tree3583aaa9233ce774a224a3cf5ba86ae2e339794b
parent9d3679fe0f30b5a4c1ae6303611c9f2bbeb9961d
net: ethernet: fec: Replace interrupt driven MDIO with polled IO

Measurements of the MDIO bus have shown that driving the MDIO bus
using interrupts is slow. Back to back MDIO transactions take about
90us, with 25us spent performing the transaction, and the remainder of
the time the bus is idle.

Replacing the completion interrupt with polled IO results in back to
back transactions of 40us. The polling loop waiting for the hardware
to complete the transaction takes around 28us. Which suggests
interrupt handling has an overhead of 50us, and polled IO nearly
halves this overhead, and doubles the MDIO performance.

Suggested-by: Chris Heally <cphealy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec.h
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c