On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 at 15:00, Ali El-Haj-Mahmoud <aaelhaj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When the BIOS is built with kcs interrupts enabled, not enabling
> interrupts on the BMC results in very poor IPMI performance.
> The other way around (BIOS with interrupts disabled, BMC with
> interrupts enabled) doesn't suffer degraded IPMI performance.
> Enabling interrupts on the BMC covers both scenarios, and should
> be the default.
>
> TESTED: manually verified IPMI performance when BIOS is built with and
> without KCS interrupts.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ali El-Haj-Mahmoud <aaelhaj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks, I've applied this for 6.3.
> ---
> arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-bmc-tyan-s8036.dts | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-bmc-tyan-s8036.dts b/arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-bmc-tyan-s8036.dts
> index 708ee78e4b83..f6c4549c0ac4 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-bmc-tyan-s8036.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-bmc-tyan-s8036.dts
> @@ -364,6 +364,7 @@ &kcs1 {
> &kcs3 {
> status = "okay";
> aspeed,lpc-io-reg = <0xca2>;
> + aspeed,lpc-interrupts = <1 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
> };
>
> /* Enable BMC VGA output to show an early (pre-BIOS) boot screen */
> --
> 2.39.0.314.g84b9a713c41-goog
>
