This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Revert "r8169: disable ASPM during NAPI poll" to the 6.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: revert-r8169-disable-aspm-during-napi-poll.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From e31a9fedc7d8d80722b19628e66fcb5a36981780 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 13:12:32 +0200 Subject: Revert "r8169: disable ASPM during NAPI poll" From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> commit e31a9fedc7d8d80722b19628e66fcb5a36981780 upstream. This reverts commit e1ed3e4d91112027b90c7ee61479141b3f948e6a. Turned out the change causes a performance regression. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230713124914.GA12924@green245/T/ Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/055c6bc2-74fa-8c67-9897-3f658abb5ae7@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c | 11 +---------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c @@ -4514,10 +4514,6 @@ static irqreturn_t rtl8169_interrupt(int } if (napi_schedule_prep(&tp->napi)) { - rtl_unlock_config_regs(tp); - rtl_hw_aspm_clkreq_enable(tp, false); - rtl_lock_config_regs(tp); - rtl_irq_disable(tp); __napi_schedule(&tp->napi); } @@ -4577,14 +4573,9 @@ static int rtl8169_poll(struct napi_stru work_done = rtl_rx(dev, tp, budget); - if (work_done < budget && napi_complete_done(napi, work_done)) { + if (work_done < budget && napi_complete_done(napi, work_done)) rtl_irq_enable(tp); - rtl_unlock_config_regs(tp); - rtl_hw_aspm_clkreq_enable(tp, true); - rtl_lock_config_regs(tp); - } - return work_done; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx are queue-6.4/revert-r8169-disable-aspm-during-napi-poll.patch