Re: [net-next v13 04/11] net: mtip: The L2 switch driver for imx287

[Paolo Abeni]

On 6/22/25 11:37 AM, Lukasz Majewski wrote:
> +static void mtip_aging_timer(struct timer_list *t)
> +{
> +	struct switch_enet_private *fep = timer_container_of(fep, t,
> +							     timer_aging);
> +
> +	fep->curr_time = mtip_timeincrement(fep->curr_time);
> +
> +	mod_timer(&fep->timer_aging,
> +		  jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(LEARNING_AGING_INTERVAL));
> +}

It's unclear to me why you decided to maintain this function and timer
while you could/should have used a macro around jiffies instead.

[...]
> +static int mtip_sw_learning(void *arg)
> +{
> +	struct switch_enet_private *fep = arg;
> +
> +	while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
> +		set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> +		/* check learning record valid */
> +		mtip_atable_dynamicms_learn_migration(fep, fep->curr_time,
> +						      NULL, NULL);
> +		schedule_timeout(HZ / 100);
> +	}
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}

Why are you using a full blown kernel thread here? Here a timer could
possibly make more sense. Why are checking the table every 10ms, while
the learning intervall is 100ms? I guess you could/should align the
frequency here with such interval.

Side note: I think you should move the buffer management to a later
patch: this one is still IMHO too big.

/P