The PHY state machine (in drivers/net/phy/phy.c) will unconditionally call phydev->adjust_link (macb_handle_link_change) when polling in the PHY_CHANGELINK state. As currently written, macb always ends up requesting a new tx_clk frequency in macb_handle_link_change. It is a waste of time to request a new tx_clk frequency if the link state hasn't changed, as the tx_clk will already be configured properly.
Let's only request a new tx_clk clock frequency when necessary. Signed-off-by: Jaeden Amero <jaeden.am...@ni.com> Cc: Josh Cartwright <jo...@ni.com> Cc: Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkm...@xilinx.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c index f00be58..a0a04b3 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c @@ -293,10 +293,13 @@ static void macb_handle_link_change(struct net_device *dev) spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bp->lock, flags); - macb_set_tx_clk(bp->tx_clk, phydev->speed, dev); - if (status_change) { if (phydev->link) { + /* Update the TX clock rate if and only if the link is + * up and there has been a link change. + */ + macb_set_tx_clk(bp->tx_clk, phydev->speed, dev); + netif_carrier_on(dev); netdev_info(dev, "link up (%d/%s)\n", phydev->speed, -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/