From: John Ronciak
> Can we try a couple of things? 1) just comment out all the check for
> link code in the e100 driver and give that a try and 2) just comment
> out the update stats call and see if that works. These seem to be the
> differences and we need to know which one is causing the problem.
First of all, I am still unable to get any traces of this in the
latency tracer. Moreover, as I told before, removing parts of the
watchdog usually made my eth0 nonfunctional (which is bad - this
is an embedded system with ssh access).
Hence, I explicitely instrumented the watchdog function with tsc.
Output of the timings is done by a background thread, so the
timings should not increase the runtime of the watchdog.
Here are my results:
If the watchdog doesn't get interrupted, preempted, or whatever,
it spends 340 us in its body:
* 303 us in the mii code
* 36 us in the following code up to e100_adjust_adaptive_ifs
* 1 us in the remaining code (I think my chip doesn't need any
of those chip-specific fixups)
The 303 us in the mii code are divided in the following way:
* 101 us in mii_ethtool_gset
* 135 us in the whole if
* 67 us in mii_check_link
This is with the udelay(2) instead of udelay(20) hack applied.
With udelay(20), the mii times are 128 + 170 + 85 us,
i.e. 383 us instead of 303 us, or >= 420 us for the whole watchdog.
As the RTC runs with 8192 Hz during my tests, the watchdog is hit
by 2-3 interrupts, which adds another 75 - 110 us to its total
execution time, i.e. the time it blocks other rtprio 1 threads.
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