Pause, Asym_Pause and Autoneg bits are not set when pl->supported is initialized, so these link modes will not work for the fixed-link. This leads to a TCP performance degradation issue observed on the i.MX943 platform. The switch CPU port of i.MX943 is connected to an ENETC MAC, this link is a fixed link and the link speed is 2.5Gbps. And one of the switch user ports is the RGMII interface, and its link speed is 1Gbps. If the flow-control of the fixed link is not enabled, we can easily observe the iperf performance of TCP packets is very low. Because the inbound rate on the CPU port is greater than the outbound rate on the user port, the switch is prone to congestion, leading to the loss of some TCP packets and requiring multiple retransmissions. Solving this problem should be as simple as setting the Asym_Pause and Pause bits. The reason why the Autoneg bit needs to be set is because it was already set before the blame commit. Moreover, Russell provides a very good explanation of why it needs to be set in the thread [1]. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/aRjqLN8eQDIQfBjS@shell.armlinux.org.uk/ Fixes: de7d3f87be3c ("net: phylink: Use phy_caps_lookup for fixed-link configuration") Signed-off-by: Wei Fang Reviewed-by: Maxime Chevallier --- v2 changes: 1. Improve the commit message 2. Collect the Reviewed-by tag v1: https://lore.kernel.org/imx/20251114052808.1129942-1-wei.fang@nxp.com/ --- drivers/net/phy/phylink.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c index 9d7799ea1c17..918244308215 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c @@ -637,6 +637,9 @@ static int phylink_validate(struct phylink *pl, unsigned long *supported, static void phylink_fill_fixedlink_supported(unsigned long *supported) { + linkmode_set_bit(ETHTOOL_LINK_MODE_Pause_BIT, supported); + linkmode_set_bit(ETHTOOL_LINK_MODE_Asym_Pause_BIT, supported); + linkmode_set_bit(ETHTOOL_LINK_MODE_Autoneg_BIT, supported); linkmode_set_bit(ETHTOOL_LINK_MODE_10baseT_Half_BIT, supported); linkmode_set_bit(ETHTOOL_LINK_MODE_10baseT_Full_BIT, supported); linkmode_set_bit(ETHTOOL_LINK_MODE_100baseT_Half_BIT, supported); -- 2.34.1