[RFC] [PATCH net-next v6 0/3] r8169: Implement dynamic ASPM mechanism for recent 1.0/2.5Gbps Realtek NICs

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The purpose of the series is to get comments and reviews so we can merge
and test the series in downstream kernel.

The latest Realtek vendor driver and its Windows driver implements a
feature called "dynamic ASPM" which can improve performance on it's
ethernet NICs.

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.

For the slow/fast alternating traffic pattern, we'll need some real
world test to know if we need to lower the dynamic ASPM interval.

v5:
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210916154417.664323-1-kai.heng.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/

v4:
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210827171452.217123-1-kai.heng.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/

v3:
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210819054542.608745-1-kai.heng.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/

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):
  PCI/ASPM: Introduce a new helper to report ASPM capability
  r8169: Enable chip-specific ASPM regardless of PCIe ASPM status
  r8169: Implement dynamic ASPM mechanism

 drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++---
 drivers/pci/pcie/aspm.c                   | 11 ++++
 include/linux/pci.h                       |  2 +
 3 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

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