Re: EG20T USB Gadget Performance

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Hi,

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 03:20:31PM -0500, Alan Ott wrote:
> I have an EG20T-based board and have some issues with performance on
> the USB device interface.

I don't have that hardware but ...

> I made a libusb test program (using the async interface)[0] to read
> data from the EG20T's USB device port which has the gadget zero
> source/sink function bound. In theory, one would hope this would give
> the fastest real-world results for the hardware connected.
> 
> The test program submits 32 IN transfers and re-submits on transfer
> completion, counting received packets.
> 
> From running my test program for a few minutes I get the following:
>     elapsed: 548.468416 seconds
>     packets: 21503334
>     packets/sec: 39206.148199
>     bytes/sec: 20073547.877732
>     MBit/sec: 160.588383
> 
> 160MBit/sec isn't terrible, but I hoped for better. A USB analyzer
> shows 7 transactions happening quickly (with about 14us separating
> them), but every 8th transaction, the EG20T will NAK between 20-80
> times[1], losing 50-100us[2].

as Alan stated, this is a problem on the device side. The device is
replying with NAK because, I believe, it has ran out of free TDs.

> This delay happens every 8th transaction without fail[3].
> 
> I've looked at the following:
> 1. The f_sourcesink.c function it queues up 8 responses at the
> beginning. Changing this number up or down had no effect.
> 2. Analysis of pch_udc.c doesn't show anything which would obviously
> cause a delay every 8th packet.
> 3. f_eem seems to have roughly the same performance with ping -f -s
> 64000 (160Mbit/sec).
> 
> The CPU load of the gadget-side Atom PC sits very close to zero.
> 
> System Details:
>     Linux 3.13.0-rc7 (With a defconfig from Yocto for Intel Crownbay)
>     Intel Atom E680 with EG20T
> 
> I seem to have eliminated everything on the host side, since the host
> is asking for data, and the device is saying it doesn't have any for
> up to 100us at a time.
> 
> What am I missing?

you should probably profile your pch_udc_pcd_queue() to figure out if
there's anything wasting a lot of time there.

Unlike Alan, I would use trace_printk() rather than pr_debug() since
trace_printk() is of much lower overhead. Google around and you'll see
how to use trace_printk() and how to use the kernel function profiler.

cheers

-- 
balbi

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