Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] net: stmmac: phylink PCS conversion part 3 (dodgy stuff)

From: Mohd Ayaan Anwar <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2025 16:50:03 +0530

On Mon, Nov 03, 2025 at 12:48:20PM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> 
> As Russell partially pointed out, there are several assumptions in the
> Aquantia PHY driver and in phylink, three of them being that:
> - rate matching is only supported for PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_10GBASER and
>   PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_2500BASEX (thus not PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_SGMII)
> - if phy_get_rate_matching() returns RATE_MATCH_NONE for an interface,
>   pl->phy_state.rate_matching will also be RATE_MATCH_NONE when using
>   that interface
> - if rate matching is used, the PHY is configured to use it for all
>   media speeds <= phylink_interface_max_speed(link_state.interface)
> 
> Those assumptions are not validated very well against the ground truth
> from the PHY provisioning, so the next step would be for us to see that
> directly.
> 
> Please turn this print from aqr_gen2_read_global_syscfg() into something
> visible in dmesg, i.e. by replacing phydev_dbg() with phydev_info():
> 
> 		phydev_dbg(phydev,
> 			   "Media speed %d uses host interface %s with %s\n",
> 			   syscfg->speed, phy_modes(syscfg->interface),
> 			   syscfg->rate_adapt == AQR_RATE_ADAPT_NONE ? "no rate adaptation" :
> 			   syscfg->rate_adapt == AQR_RATE_ADAPT_PAUSE ? "rate adaptation through flow control" :
> 			   syscfg->rate_adapt == AQR_RATE_ADAPT_USX ? "rate adaptation through symbol replication" :
> 			   "unrecognized rate adaptation type");

Thanks. Looks like rate adaptation is only provisioned for 10M, which
matches my observation where phylink passes the exact speeds for
100/1000/2500 but 1000 for 10M.

[    9.449107] Aquantia AQR115C stmmac-0:08: Media speed 10 uses host interface sgmii with rate adaptation through flow control
[    9.462025] Aquantia AQR115C stmmac-0:08: Media speed 100 uses host interface sgmii with no rate adaptation
[    9.479897] Aquantia AQR115C stmmac-0:08: Media speed 1000 uses host interface sgmii with no rate adaptation
[    9.499634] Aquantia AQR115C stmmac-0:08: Media speed 2500 uses host interface 2500base-x with no rate adaptation
[    9.516342] Aquantia AQR115C stmmac-0:08: Media speed 5000 uses host interface 10gbase-r with rate adaptation through flow control
[    9.534045] Aquantia AQR115C stmmac-0:08: Media speed 10000 uses host interface 10gbase-r with no rate adaptation
[    9.587889] qcom-ethqos 23040000.ethernet eth0: PHY [stmmac-0:08] driver [Aquantia AQR115C] (irq=304)

	Ayaan