Re: [PATCH 00/18] can: m_can: Optimizations for m_can/tcan part 2

[Markus Schneider-Pargmann <msp@baylibre.com>]

Hi everyone,

On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 04:25:19PM +0100, Markus Schneider-Pargmann wrote:
> Hi Marc and everyone,
> 
> this is the second part now. I know it is the merge window right now but
> I am quite sure this won't be merged immediately anyways, so if you have
> some time for some comments I would appreciate it. So it is still based
> on v6.1-rc8 + the patches that got applied.
> 
> I tried to do as small patches as possible so it is easier to
> understand. The series changed a lot compared to v1 I sent so I didn't
> call it v2. There are a lot of new patches as well.
> 
> The series contains a few small fixes and optimizations at the
> beginning, then adding coalescing support and at the end removing the
> restrictions on the number of parallel transmits in flight.
> 
> Note that the last patch 'Implement transmit submission coalescing' does
> not perform well for me in a loopback testing setup. However I think it
> may work well in normal testcases. I attached this mechanism to the
> tx-frames coalescing option, let me know if this is the correct option.

I introduced a bug in this series in the internal m_can driver (not
peripheral) and maybe for older m_can versions as well. No need to
review at the moment, I will send a new version once they are fixed.

Best,
Markus

> 
> Best,
> Markus
> 
> part 1:
> v1 - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221116205308.2996556-1-msp@baylibre.com
> v2 - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221206115728.1056014-1-msp@baylibre.com
> 
> Markus Schneider-Pargmann (18):
>   can: tcan4x5x: Remove reserved register 0x814 from writable table
>   can: tcan4x5x: Check size of mram configuration
>   can: m_can: Remove repeated check for is_peripheral
>   can: m_can: Always acknowledge all interrupts
>   can: m_can: Remove double interrupt enable
>   can: m_can: Disable unused interrupts
>   can: m_can: Keep interrupts enabled during peripheral read
>   can: m_can: Write transmit header and data in one transaction
>   can: m_can: Implement receive coalescing
>   can: m_can: Implement transmit coalescing
>   can: m_can: Add rx coalescing ethtool support
>   can: m_can: Add tx coalescing ethtool support
>   can: m_can: Cache tx putidx
>   can: m_can: Use the workqueue as queue
>   can: m_can: Introduce a tx_fifo_in_flight counter
>   can: m_can: Use tx_fifo_in_flight for netif_queue control
>   can: m_can: Implement BQL
>   can: m_can: Implement transmit submission coalescing
> 
>  drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.c           | 498 ++++++++++++++++++------
>  drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.h           |  36 +-
>  drivers/net/can/m_can/tcan4x5x-core.c   |   5 +
>  drivers/net/can/m_can/tcan4x5x-regmap.c |   1 -
>  4 files changed, 418 insertions(+), 122 deletions(-)
> 
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