On 19.08.2021 07:45, Kai-Heng Feng wrote: > The latest Realtek vendor driver and its Windows driver implements a > feature called "dynamic ASPM" which can improve performance on it's > ethernet NICs. > This statement would need a proof. Which performance improvement did you measure? And why should performance improve? On mainline ASPM is disabled, therefore I don't think we can see a performance improvement. More the opposite in the scenario I described: If traffic starts and there's a congestion in the chip, then it may take a second until ASPM gets disabled. This may hit performance. > Heiner Kallweit pointed out the potential root cause can be that the > buffer is to small for its ASPM exit latency. > > So bring the dynamic ASPM to r8169 so we can have both nice performance > and powersaving at the same time. > > v2: > https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210812155341.817031-1-kai.heng.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > v1: > https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210803152823.515849-1-kai.heng.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > Kai-Heng Feng (3): > r8169: Implement dynamic ASPM mechanism > PCI/ASPM: Introduce a new helper to report ASPM support status > r8169: Enable ASPM for selected NICs > > drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++--- > drivers/pci/pcie/aspm.c | 11 ++++ > include/linux/pci.h | 2 + > 3 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) > This series is meant for your downstream kernel only, and posted here to get feedback. Therefore it should be annotated as RFC, not that it gets applied accidentally.
