mlxsw: core: Use variable timeout for EMAD retries
The driver sends Ethernet Management Datagram (EMAD) packets to the device for configuration purposes and waits for up to 200ms for a reply. A request is retried up to 5 times. When the system is under heavy load, replies are not always processed in time and EMAD transactions fail. Make the process more robust to such delays by using exponential backoff. First wait for up to 200ms, then retransmit and wait for up to 400ms and so on. Fixes: caf7297e ("mlxsw: core: Introduce support for asynchronous EMAD register access") Reported-by: Denis Yulevich <denisyu@nvidia.com> Tested-by: Denis Yulevich <denisyu@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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