[PATCH] Fix tx-queue-size on NBG6817 (allows MTU changes).

[Jacek Milewicz]

On 22/09/2020 00:06, Ansuel Smith wrote:
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>> On 19/09/2020 15:06, Paul Oranje wrote:
>>> See below, regards,
>>> Paul
>>>
>>>
>>>> Op 15 sep. 2020, om 21:56 heeft jacekowski at jacekowski.org het volgende geschreven:
>>> The subject does not to comply with the rules for that, it should at least start with the target, better would be:
>>>        ipq806x: fix tx-queue-size on NBG6817
>>
>> I was not aware of that.
>>
>>>> From: Jacek Milewicz <jacekowski at jacekowski.org>
>>>>
>>>> Fixes FS#3285 for NBG6817 only.
>>> Why is that ?
>>
>> Because on IPQ806x SoC it is impossible to detect correct value,
>> therefore it has to be set for each device in device tree (which is what
>> this patch is doing).
>>
>> On most IPQ806x devices correct value has to be determined manually by
>> trying few most common values and seeing what works (4k seems to be most
>> common).
>>
> 
> Can I ask you how you found out and how to check if a bad value is set?
> Is this set by default on the OEM firmware? Any test or something?
> 

OEM firmware runs older kernel that does not check for tx-fifo-depth at 
all (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11283121/ - this patch, dated 
December 2019 added the check). There is only few values that the driver 
will accept (256,512,1k,2k,4,8k,16k), so the easiest way to check is set 
it to highest (16k) and then try increasingly higher MTU to check at 
what point does it start dropping packets or crashing (and it seems like 
4k is fairly common value on this SoC).