On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 10:37:43AM +0100, kus Kusche Klaus ([email protected]) wrote:
> > From: John Ronciak
> > During the watchdog the e100 driver reads all of the status registers
> > from the actual hardware. There are 26 (worst case) register reads.
> > There is also a spin lock for another check in the watchdog. It would
> > still surprise me that all of this would take 500 usec. If you are
> > seeing this delay, you can comment out the scheduling of the watchdog
> > to see if this goes away. We'll need to narrow down exactly what in
> > the watchdog is causing the delay
>
> Retested it.
...
> Effect of the e100 driver:
> * There is no measurable effect when my test program is running
> at prio 2 - 99.
> * For prio 1, I get an interval of 500-650 us every 2 seconds,
> which indicates a scheduling latency of 380-530 us.
> Hence, some piece of code is running for ~500 us at rt prio 1.
>
> Analysis of e100:
> * If I comment out the whole body of e100_watchdog except for the
> timer re-registration, the delays are gone (so it is really the
> body of e100_watchdog). However, this makes eth0 non-functional.
> * Commenting out parts of it, I found out that most of the time
> goes into its first half: The code from mii_ethtool_gset to
> mii_check_link (including) makes the big difference, as far as
> I can tell especially mii_ethtool_gset.
Each MDIO read can take upto 2 msecs (!) and at least 20 usecs in e100,
and this runs in timer handler.
Concider attaching (only compile tested) patch which moves e100 watchdog
into workqueue.
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <[email protected]>
diff --git a/drivers/net/e100.c b/drivers/net/e100.c
index 22cd045..e884578 100644
--- a/drivers/net/e100.c
+++ b/drivers/net/e100.c
@@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ struct nic {
enum phy phy;
struct params params;
struct net_device_stats net_stats;
- struct timer_list watchdog;
+ struct work_struct watchdog;
struct timer_list blink_timer;
struct mii_if_info mii;
struct work_struct tx_timeout_task;
@@ -1495,7 +1495,7 @@ static void e100_adjust_adaptive_ifs(str
}
}
-static void e100_watchdog(unsigned long data)
+static void e100_watchdog(void *data)
{
struct nic *nic = (struct nic *)data;
struct ethtool_cmd cmd;
@@ -1539,7 +1539,7 @@ static void e100_watchdog(unsigned long
else
nic->flags &= ~ich_10h_workaround;
- mod_timer(&nic->watchdog, jiffies + E100_WATCHDOG_PERIOD);
+ schedule_delayed_work(&nic->watchdog, E100_WATCHDOG_PERIOD);
}
static inline void e100_xmit_prepare(struct nic *nic, struct cb *cb,
@@ -2004,7 +2004,7 @@ static int e100_up(struct nic *nic)
goto err_clean_cbs;
e100_set_multicast_list(nic->netdev);
e100_start_receiver(nic, NULL);
- mod_timer(&nic->watchdog, jiffies);
+ schedule_work(&nic->watchdog);
if((err = request_irq(nic->pdev->irq, e100_intr, SA_SHIRQ,
nic->netdev->name, nic->netdev)))
goto err_no_irq;
@@ -2016,7 +2016,7 @@ static int e100_up(struct nic *nic)
return 0;
err_no_irq:
- del_timer_sync(&nic->watchdog);
+ cancel_rearming_delayed_work(&nic->watchdog);
err_clean_cbs:
e100_clean_cbs(nic);
err_rx_clean_list:
@@ -2031,7 +2031,7 @@ static void e100_down(struct nic *nic)
netif_stop_queue(nic->netdev);
e100_hw_reset(nic);
free_irq(nic->pdev->irq, nic->netdev);
- del_timer_sync(&nic->watchdog);
+ flush_scheduled_work();
netif_carrier_off(nic->netdev);
e100_clean_cbs(nic);
e100_rx_clean_list(nic);
@@ -2570,9 +2570,7 @@ static int __devinit e100_probe(struct p
pci_set_master(pdev);
- init_timer(&nic->watchdog);
- nic->watchdog.function = e100_watchdog;
- nic->watchdog.data = (unsigned long)nic;
+ INIT_WORK(&nic->watchdog, e100_watchdog, nic);
init_timer(&nic->blink_timer);
nic->blink_timer.function = e100_blink_led;
nic->blink_timer.data = (unsigned long)nic;
> --
> Klaus Kusche (Software Development - Control Systems)
> KEBA AG Gewerbepark Urfahr, A-4041 Linz, Austria (Europe)
> Tel: +43 / 732 / 7090-3120 Fax: +43 / 732 / 7090-6301
> E-Mail: [email protected] WWW: www.keba.com
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
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