Carlo Caione <ccaione@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> A long running stress test on a custom board shipping an AXG SoCs and a
> Realtek RTL8211F PHY revealed that after a few hours the connection
> speed would drop drastically, from ~1000Mbps to ~3Mbps. At the same time
> the 'macirq' (eth0) IRQ would stop being triggered at all and as
> consequence the GMAC IRQs never ACKed.
>
> After a painful investigation the problem seemed to be due to a wrong
> defined IRQ type for the GMAC IRQ that should be LEVEL_HIGH instead of
> EDGE_RISING.
>
> The change in the macirq IRQ type also solved another long standing
> issue affecting this SoC/PHY where EEE was causing the network
> connection to die after stressing it with iperf3 (even though much
> sooner). It's now possible to remove the 'eee-broken-1000t' quirk as
> well.
>
> Fixes: feb3cbea0946 ("ARM64: dts: meson-gxbb-odroidc2: fix GbE tx link breakage")
> Fixes: 6d28d577510f ("ARM64: dts: meson-axg: fix ethernet stability issue")
> Reviewed-by: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Carlo Caione <ccaione@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Queuing this one for v4.21 (dt64 branch)
I'm going to wait for the dust to settle on 'PATCH v2 2/2' for the
32-bit SoCs (and will rely on Martin's recommendation for the final
decision there.)
Kevin
