Re: L2CAP mtu preference set by user space clarification

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Hi Luiz,

Requesting your feedback/suggestion to the below case.

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 12:31 PM Sathish Narasimman
<nsathish41@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Luiz,
>
> There are some headsets that configure the MTU to 850(3M PHY) and then
> under some situation(noisy), it switches to 2M PHY packets for A2DP
> playback.  The reason behind this is their receiver's capability for
> better demodulation with QDPSK(2M PHY) when compared to 8DPSK(3M PHY).
>
> From Bluetooth specification, the remote device can request the
> LMP_preferred_rate with the LMP command to switch to 2M. When Baseband
> PHY is 2M,  the maximum possible packet type is 2DH5 which can hold
> 679 bytes ( 672 bytes of L2CAP MTU excluding the baseband headers).
>
> When L2CAP MTU for an A2DP packet is larger than 672 bytes, it happens
> to use 2 Baseband packets to deliver the L2CAP packet ie., like 1
> 2DH5(679 bytes) and 1 2DH3(171 bytes) packet to deliver 850 bytes of
> AVDTP Media. The is not efficient baseband utilization when the number
> of baseband ACL buffers used 2 no.s or even less that may lead to the
> delivery of one L2CAP packet that may take 4 slots more ( 2.5 ms
> more).
>
> When the remote device ( headset) has less number of baseband ACL
> buffers and Host(source) is aggressively delivering the audio data to
> render, it shall end up in a condition where the remote device does
> Flow OFF that shall make the Source device to wait until next FLOW ON
> send from the headset device. This kind of situation shall end up
> accumulating more buffers and FLOW ON/OFF become cyclic and leads to
> an audio break.
>
> Is there a better solution to overcome this issue?
>
> We considered changing the HOST MTU to 672bytes to overcome this issue
> that makes the remote headset device to use 2M. And found that the
> test results are positive.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 5:49 AM Luiz Augusto von Dentz
> <luiz.dentz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Chethan,
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 10:40 PM chethan tn <chethantn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I would like to understand why the Source device L2CAP mtu is always
> > > set to the remote device mtu during L2CAP connection?
> > >
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bluetooth/bluetooth.git/tree/net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c#n3370
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bluetooth/bluetooth.git/tree/net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c#n3474
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I tried to set the specific MTU for specific profile connection( For
> > > Ex: A2DP connection - PSM  25) patch mentioned below, but the same is
> > > not reflected because of the below code.
> > >
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bluetooth/bluetooth.git/tree/net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c#n3474
> >
> > The answer is pretty simple, we don't control the remote/output MTU,
> > so we cannot force the remote to use some arbitrary MTU if it doesn't
> > agree with.
> >
> > > Here the patch to set the MTU from the use space bluez.
> > >
> > > diff --git a/profiles/audio/a2dp.c b/profiles/audio/a2dp.c
> > > index 58e1534a4..7d8a718c0 100644
> > > --- a/profiles/audio/a2dp.c
> > > +++ b/profiles/audio/a2dp.c
> > > @@ -1573,6 +1573,7 @@ static bool a2dp_server_listen(struct a2dp_server *server)
> > >                                 BT_IO_OPT_SOURCE_BDADDR,
> > >                                 btd_adapter_get_address(server->adapter),
> > >                                 BT_IO_OPT_PSM, AVDTP_PSM,
> > > +                               BT_IO_OPT_OMTU, AVDTP_MTU,
> > >                                 BT_IO_OPT_SEC_LEVEL, BT_IO_SEC_MEDIUM,
> > >                                 BT_IO_OPT_MASTER, true,
> > >                                 BT_IO_OPT_INVALID);
> > > diff --git a/profiles/audio/avdtp.c b/profiles/audio/avdtp.c
> > > index 51ead684a..786702cec 100644
> > > --- a/profiles/audio/avdtp.c
> > > +++ b/profiles/audio/avdtp.c
> > > @@ -2394,6 +2394,7 @@ static GIOChannel *l2cap_connect(struct avdtp *session)
> > >                                 BT_IO_OPT_DEST_BDADDR,
> > >                                 device_get_address(session->device),
> > >                                 BT_IO_OPT_PSM, AVDTP_PSM,
> > > +                               BT_IO_OPT_OMTU, AVDTP_MTU,
> > >                                 BT_IO_OPT_SEC_LEVEL, BT_IO_SEC_MEDIUM,
> > >                                 BT_IO_OPT_INVALID);
> > >         if (!io) {
> > > diff --git a/profiles/audio/avdtp.h b/profiles/audio/avdtp.h
> > > index 621a6e3cf..372b2579d 100644
> > > --- a/profiles/audio/avdtp.h
> > > +++ b/profiles/audio/avdtp.h
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Can you please suggest what is the best way to set the L2CAP mtu as
> > > user defined.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Chethan
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Luiz Augusto von Dentz
>
> Regards
> Sathish N



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