Re: [PATCH] ARM64: dts: meson-axg: fix ethernet stability issue

From: Kevin Hilman
Date: Wed Jun 27 2018 - 19:10:33 EST


Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 25/06/2018 14:56, Jerome Brunet wrote:
>> Like the odroid-c2 and wetek, the s400 uses the RTL8211F and seems to
>> suffer from the kind of stability issue.
>>
>> Doing an iperf3 download test, we can see a significant number of LPI
>> interrupts on the tx path. After a short while (5 to 15 seconds), the
>> network connection dies. If using rootfs over NFS, the connection may
>> also break during the boot sequence.
>>
>> We still don't have a real explanation for this problem so let's disable
>> EEE once again.
>>
>> Fixes: f6f6ac914b82 ("ARM64: dts: meson-axg: enable ethernet for A113D S400 board")
>> Signed-off-by: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-axg-s400.dts | 15 ++++++++++++++-
>> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
> [...]
> Reviewed-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to v4.18/fixes (which I'll be sending upstream today.)

Kevin