On Sat, Mar 21, 2026 at 05:20:14AM +0000, Daniel Golle wrote:

Issue the firmware's RST_DATA command before writing data payloads that
contain many zero words. RST_DATA zeroes both the firmware's internal
buffer and the MMD data registers in a single command, allowing the
driver to skip individual MDIO writes for zero-valued words. This
reduces bus traffic for the common case where API structs have many
unused or default-zero fields.

The optimization is applied when at least 5 zero words are found in the
payload, roughly the break-even point against the cost of the extra
RST_DATA command round-trip.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>

    Andrew