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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 1/1] r8169: Coalesce RTL8411b PHY power-down recovery programming instructions to reduce spinlock stalls
On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 04:35:19AM +0100, Mirsad Todorovac wrote:
> On 10/31/23 02:21, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > I will not contradict, but the cummulative amount of memory barriers on each MMIO read/write
> > > in each single one of the drivers could amount to some degrading of overall performance and
> > > latency in a multicore system.
> >
> > For optimisations, we like to see benchmark results which show some
> > improvements. Do you have any numbers?
>
> Hi, Andrew,
>
> Thank you for your interest in RTL NIC driver optimisations.
>
> My knowledge about the timing costs of synchronisation is mostly theoretical.

The kernel tends to be very practical. Maybe try to turn the
theoretical knowledge into practice. Write a benchmark test, or see if
any of the existing RT Linux tests show there is a real problem here,
and your changes fix it.

Andrew

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