Re: [PATCH] Use maximum latency when determining L1 ASPM

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On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 05:41:45PM +0200, Ian Kumlien wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 5:37 PM Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 01:35:27PM +0200, Ian Kumlien wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 12:41 AM Ian Kumlien <ian.kumlien@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 11:28 PM Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > > > Can you please, please, collect these on your system, Ian?  I assume
> > > > > that you can easily collect it once without your patch, when you see
> > > > > poor I211 NIC performance but the system is otherwise working.  And
> > > > > you can collect it again *with* your patch.  Same Kconfig, same
> > > > > *everything* except adding your patch.
> > > >
> > > > Yeah I can do that, but I would like the changes output from the
> > > > latest patch suggestion
> > > > running on Kai-Heng's system so we can actually see what it does...
> > >
> > > Is:
> > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209725
> >
> > That's a great start.  Can you attach the patch to the bugzilla too,
> > please, so it is self-contained?
> >
> > And also the analysis of the path from Root Port to Endpoint, with the
> > exit latencies of each link, the acceptable latency of the endpoint
> > and
> >
> >   (1) the computation done by the existing code that results in
> >   "latency < acceptable" that means we can enable ASPM, and
> >
> >   (2) the correct computation per spec that results in
> >   "latency > acceptable" so we cannot enable ASPM?
> >
> > This analysis will be the core of the commit log, and the bugzilla
> > with lspci info is the supporting evidence.
> 
> Ok, will do, there will be some bio-latency though
> 
> Were you ok with the pr_cont output per endpoint?

Haven't looked at that yet.  Will respond to that patch when I do.



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