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I finally found out how the 4 management route slots are supposed to be used, but.. it's not worth it. The description from the comment I've just deleted in this commit is still true: when more than 1 management slot is active at the same time, the switch will match frames incoming [from the CPU port] on the lowest numbered management slot that matches the frame's DMAC. My issue was that one was not supposed to statically assign each port a slot. Yes, there are 4 slots and also 4 non-CPU ports, but that is a mere coincidence. Instead, the switch can be used like this: every management frame gets a slot at the right of the most recently assigned slot: Send mgmt frame 1 through S0: S0 x x x Send mgmt frame 2 through S1: S0 S1 x x Send mgmt frame 3 through S2: S0 S1 S2 x Send mgmt frame 4 through S3: S0 S1 S2 S3 The difference compared to the old usage is that the transmission of frames 1-4 doesn't need to wait until the completion of the management route. It is safe to use a slot to the right of the most recently used one, because by protocol nobody will program a slot to your left and "steal" your route towards the correct egress port. So there is a potential throughput benefit here. But mgmt frame 5 has no more free slot to use, so it has to wait until _all_ of S0, S1, S2, S3 are full, in order to use S0 again. And that's actually exactly the problem: I was looking for something that would bring more predictable transmission latency, but this is exactly the opposite: 3 out of 4 frames would be transmitted quicker, but the 4th would draw the short straw and have a worse worst-case latency than before. Useless. Things are made even worse by PTP TX timestamping, which is something I won't go deeply into here. Suffice to say that the fact there is a driver-level lock on the SPI bus offsets any potential throughput gains that parallelism might bring. So there's no going back to the multi-slot scheme, remove the "mgmt_slot" variable from sja1105_port and the dummy static assignment made at probe time. While passing by, also remove the assignment to casc_port altogether. Don't pretend that we support cascaded setups. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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