In the current implementation, IP coalescing is always enabled and
cannot be disabled.

As setting maximum frames to 0 or 1, or setting delay to zero implies
immediate delivery of single packets/IRQs, disable coalescing in
hardware in these cases.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Rebmann <jre@pengutronix.de>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c | 34 ++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
index 63dac42720453a8b8a847bdd1eec76ac072030bf..07676f35664736a89d53c1cb4a436218c28524f7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
@@ -3121,27 +3121,23 @@ static int fec_enet_us_to_itr_clock(struct net_device *ndev, int us)
 static void fec_enet_itr_coal_set(struct net_device *ndev)
 {
 	struct fec_enet_private *fep = netdev_priv(ndev);
-	int rx_itr, tx_itr;
+	int rx_itr = 0, tx_itr = 0;
 
-	/* Must be greater than zero to avoid unpredictable behavior */
-	if (!fep->rx_time_itr || !fep->rx_pkts_itr ||
-	    !fep->tx_time_itr || !fep->tx_pkts_itr)
-		return;
-
-	/* Select enet system clock as Interrupt Coalescing
-	 * timer Clock Source
-	 */
-	rx_itr = FEC_ITR_CLK_SEL;
-	tx_itr = FEC_ITR_CLK_SEL;
-
-	/* set ICFT and ICTT */
-	rx_itr |= FEC_ITR_ICFT(fep->rx_pkts_itr);
-	rx_itr |= FEC_ITR_ICTT(fec_enet_us_to_itr_clock(ndev, fep->rx_time_itr));
-	tx_itr |= FEC_ITR_ICFT(fep->tx_pkts_itr);
-	tx_itr |= FEC_ITR_ICTT(fec_enet_us_to_itr_clock(ndev, fep->tx_time_itr));
+	if (fep->rx_time_itr > 0 && fep->rx_pkts_itr > 1) {
+		/* Select enet system clock as Interrupt Coalescing timer Clock Source */
+		rx_itr = FEC_ITR_CLK_SEL;
+		rx_itr |= FEC_ITR_EN;
+		rx_itr |= FEC_ITR_ICFT(fep->rx_pkts_itr);
+		rx_itr |= FEC_ITR_ICTT(fec_enet_us_to_itr_clock(ndev, fep->rx_time_itr));
+	}
 
-	rx_itr |= FEC_ITR_EN;
-	tx_itr |= FEC_ITR_EN;
+	if (fep->tx_time_itr > 0 && fep->tx_pkts_itr > 1) {
+		/* Select enet system clock as Interrupt Coalescing timer Clock Source */
+		tx_itr = FEC_ITR_CLK_SEL;
+		tx_itr |= FEC_ITR_EN;
+		tx_itr |= FEC_ITR_ICFT(fep->tx_pkts_itr);
+		tx_itr |= FEC_ITR_ICTT(fec_enet_us_to_itr_clock(ndev, fep->tx_time_itr));
+	}
 
 	writel(tx_itr, fep->hwp + FEC_TXIC0);
 	writel(rx_itr, fep->hwp + FEC_RXIC0);

---
base-commit: 8dacfd92dbefee829ca555a860e86108fdd1d55b
change-id: 20250625-fec_deactivate_coalescing-c6f8d14a1d66

Best regards,
-- 
Jonas Rebmann <jre@pengutronix.de>