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authorBreno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>2023-01-25 10:52:30 -0800
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2023-01-27 23:24:07 -0800
commitd8afe2f8a92d2aac3df645772f6ee61b0b2fc147 (patch)
tree68b29285bf927978c7019d7f2cd9d3331a437b3e
parentb568d3072a443fac22d35d6342f48ee27b811661 (diff)
netpoll: Remove 4s sleep during carrier detection
This patch removes the msleep(4s) during netpoll_setup() if the carrier appears instantly. Here are some scenarios where this workaround is counter-productive in modern ages: Servers which have BMC communicating over NC-SI via the same NIC as gets used for netconsole. BMC will keep the PHY up, hence the carrier appearing instantly. The link is fibre, SERDES getting sync could happen within 0.1Hz, and the carrier also appears instantly. Other than that, if a driver is reporting instant carrier and then losing it, this is probably a driver bug. Reported-by: Michael van der Westhuizen <rmikey@meta.com> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230125185230.3574681-1-leitao@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--net/core/netpoll.c12
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c
index 9be762e1d042..a089b704b986 100644
--- a/net/core/netpoll.c
+++ b/net/core/netpoll.c
@@ -682,7 +682,7 @@ int netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np)
}
if (!netif_running(ndev)) {
- unsigned long atmost, atleast;
+ unsigned long atmost;
np_info(np, "device %s not up yet, forcing it\n", np->dev_name);
@@ -694,7 +694,6 @@ int netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np)
}
rtnl_unlock();
- atleast = jiffies + HZ/10;
atmost = jiffies + carrier_timeout * HZ;
while (!netif_carrier_ok(ndev)) {
if (time_after(jiffies, atmost)) {
@@ -704,15 +703,6 @@ int netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np)
msleep(1);
}
- /* If carrier appears to come up instantly, we don't
- * trust it and pause so that we don't pump all our
- * queued console messages into the bitbucket.
- */
-
- if (time_before(jiffies, atleast)) {
- np_notice(np, "carrier detect appears untrustworthy, waiting 4 seconds\n");
- msleep(4000);
- }
rtnl_lock();
}