[Intel-wired-lan] [next v2] e1000e: Reduce boot time by tightening sleep ranges

[Brown, Aaron F]

On Fri, 2019-06-14 at 17:29 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan at linux.intel.com>
> 
> The e1000e driver is a great user of the usleep_range() API,
> and has nice ranges that in principle help power management.
> 
> However the ranges that are used only during system startup are
> very long (and can add easily 100 msec to the boot time) while
> the power savings of such long ranges is irrelevant due to the
> one-off, boot only, nature of these functions.
> 
> This patch shrinks some of the longest ranges to be shorter
> (while still using a power friendly 1 msec range); this saves
> 100msec+ of boot time on my BDW NUCs
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan at linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel at molgen.mpg.de>
> ---
> v2: fixed up patch to apply cleanly to the upstream e1000e driver
> 
>  .../net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/80003es2lan.c   |  2 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/82571.c     |  2 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ethtool.c   | 14 ++++++-------
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c   | 20 +++++++++----------
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/mac.c       |  2 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c    | 14 ++++++-------
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/nvm.c       |  2 +-
>  7 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
> 
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown at intel.com>
- While I don't have access to every e1000e SKU I do have at lease a dozen different ones dating back quite a few generations and this does not seem to introduce any issues.