Hi Simon, Magnus,
This patch series enables networking on r8a7796/salvator-x.
Network performance is currently limited to 100 Mbps by the ravb driver.
Performance figures with nuttcp are ca. 94 Mbps for both receive and
transmit, at 12% vs. 4% CPU load. For receive, this is comparable to
sh_eth on Koelsch; for transmit, it's ca. 20% faster.
With "ravb: Support 1Gbps on R-Car H3 ES1.1+ and R-Car M3-W" applied,
network throughput is higher, but has a high variance:
- receive: 245-426 Mbps, at 100% CPU load (ksoftirqd + nuttcp),
- transmit: 426 Mbps, at 95% CPU load (nuttcp).
When limiting memory to 1 GiB, and thus avoiding swiotlb bounce buffers,
network throughput increases (CPU load is similar though) to 546 resp.
625 Mbps.
The 50% performance penalty of swiotlb is expected to be mitigated when
IOMMU support will become available.
Note that at high receive speeds, the driver sometimes prints:
ravb e6800000.ethernet eth0: Receive Descriptor Empty
This may even cause nuttcp to fail with:
nuttcp-t: v6.1.2: Error: server not ACKing data
NFS root survives fine, though.
I'm wondering if this is also seen on the R-Car Gen2 boards where
EthernetAVB is available?
Changes compared to v1, as sent by Laurent before:
- Add pinctrl. Drive strength is not yet included, like on current
r8a7795/salvator-x.
This series is based on renesas-devel-20161212-v4.9. To actually work,
you need to merge my sh-pfc-for-v4.10 branch, which is upstream and will
be in v4.10-rc1. As this is a pure runtime dependency, and does not
imply a regression, this series can be applied now.
Thanks for applying!
Laurent Pinchart (2):
arm64: dts: renesas: r8a7796: Add EthernetAVB instance
arm64: dts: r8a7796: salvator-x: Enable EthernetAVB
arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a7796-salvator-x.dts | 32 ++++++++++++++++
arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a7796.dtsi | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 75 insertions(+)
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1.9.1
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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