Re: [PATCH] Revert "net: stmmac: Do not keep rearming the coalesce timer in stmmac_xmit"

From: Martin Blumenstingl
Date: Wed Aug 29 2018 - 14:06:04 EST


On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 8:03 PM Martin Blumenstingl
<martin.blumenstingl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]
> from that point on:
> # dmesg | tail -n 4
> [ 47.782778] RTL8211F Gigabit Ethernet 0.2009087f:00: attached PHY driver [RTL8211F Gigabit Ethernet] (mii_bus:phy_addr=0.2009087f:00, irq=30)
> [ 47.803540] meson8b-dwmac c9410000.ethernet eth0: No Safety Features support found
> [ 47.805505] meson8b-dwmac c9410000.ethernet eth0: PTP not supported by HW
> [ 50.311975] meson8b-dwmac c9410000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up - 1Gbps/Full - flow control rx/tx
I forgot to mention: after traffic doesn't flow anymore there are no
additional messages in the kernel log
thus the output of "dmesg | tail -n 4" is identical before and after
the test run


Regards
Martin