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On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 05:18:16PM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote: > > Hi, > > Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes: > > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 12:49:16AM -0700, Wesley Cheng wrote: > >> Changes in V9: > >> - Fixed incorrect patch in series. Removed changes in DTSI, as dwc3-qcom will > >> add the property by default from the kernel. > > > > This patch series has one build failure and one warning added: > > > > drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c: In function ‘dwc3_gadget_calc_tx_fifo_size’: > > drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c:653:45: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘dwc3_mdwidth’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion] > > 653 | mdwidth = dwc3_mdwidth(dwc->hwparams.hwparams0); > > | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~ > > | | > > | u32 {aka unsigned int} > > In file included from drivers/usb/dwc3/debug.h:14, > > from drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c:25: > > drivers/usb/dwc3/core.h:1493:45: note: expected ‘struct dwc3 *’ but argument is of type ‘u32’ {aka ‘unsigned int’} > > 1493 | static inline u32 dwc3_mdwidth(struct dwc3 *dwc) > > | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~ > > > > > > drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c: In function ‘dwc3_qcom_of_register_core’: > > drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c:660:23: error: implicit declaration of function ‘of_add_property’; did you mean ‘of_get_property’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] > > 660 | ret = of_add_property(dwc3_np, prop); > > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > | of_get_property > > > > > > How did you test these? > > to be honest, I don't think these should go in (apart from the build > failure) because it's likely to break instantiations of the core with > differing FIFO sizes. Some instantiations even have some endpoints with > dedicated functionality that requires the default FIFO size configured > during coreConsultant instantiation. I know of at OMAP5 and some Intel > implementations which have dedicated endpoints for processor tracing. > > With OMAP5, these endpoints are configured at the top of the available > endpoints, which means that if a gadget driver gets loaded and takes > over most of the FIFO space because of this resizing, processor tracing > will have a hard time running. That being said, processor tracing isn't > supported in upstream at this moment. > > I still think this may cause other places to break down. The promise the > databook makes is that increasing the FIFO size over 2x wMaxPacketSize > should bring little to no benefit, if we're not maintaining that, I > wonder if the problem is with some of the BUSCFG registers instead, > where we configure interconnect bursting and the like. Good points. Wesley, what kind of testing have you done on this on different devices? thanks, greg k-h
Hey Wesley, On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 01:54:48PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 12:49:16AM -0700, Wesley Cheng wrote: > > Changes in V9: > > - Fixed incorrect patch in series. Removed changes in DTSI, as dwc3-qcom will > > add the property by default from the kernel. > > This patch series has one build failure and one warning added: > > drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c: In function ‘dwc3_gadget_calc_tx_fifo_size’: > drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c:653:45: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘dwc3_mdwidth’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion] > 653 | mdwidth = dwc3_mdwidth(dwc->hwparams.hwparams0); > | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~ > | | > | u32 {aka unsigned int} > In file included from drivers/usb/dwc3/debug.h:14, > from drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c:25: > drivers/usb/dwc3/core.h:1493:45: note: expected ‘struct dwc3 *’ but argument is of type ‘u32’ {aka ‘unsigned int’} > 1493 | static inline u32 dwc3_mdwidth(struct dwc3 *dwc) > | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~ I'm guessing you were previously using the DWC3_MDWIDTH macro which operated on the 'hwparams0' reg value directly, but probably had to switch it to the dwc3_mdwidth() inline function that Thinh had replaced it with recently. Forgot to compile-test I bet? :) > drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c: In function ‘dwc3_qcom_of_register_core’: > drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c:660:23: error: implicit declaration of function ‘of_add_property’; did you mean ‘of_get_property’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] > 660 | ret = of_add_property(dwc3_np, prop); > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > | of_get_property Scratched my head on this one a bit, since 'of_add_property' is clearly declared in <linux/of.h> which dwc3-qcom.c directly includes. Then I looked closer and saw the declaration only in case of #ifdef CONFIG_OF and noticed it doesn't have a corresponding no-op static inline definition in the case of !CONFIG_OF. Again I'm guessing here that Greg must have built on a non-OF config. We should probably include a patch that adds the stub. Thanks, Jack -- The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
Hi Jack, On 6/7/2021 9:04 AM, Jack Pham wrote: > Hey Wesley, > > On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 01:54:48PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: >> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 12:49:16AM -0700, Wesley Cheng wrote: >>> Changes in V9: >>> - Fixed incorrect patch in series. Removed changes in DTSI, as dwc3-qcom will >>> add the property by default from the kernel. >> >> This patch series has one build failure and one warning added: >> >> drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c: In function ‘dwc3_gadget_calc_tx_fifo_size’: >> drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c:653:45: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘dwc3_mdwidth’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion] >> 653 | mdwidth = dwc3_mdwidth(dwc->hwparams.hwparams0); >> | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~ >> | | >> | u32 {aka unsigned int} >> In file included from drivers/usb/dwc3/debug.h:14, >> from drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c:25: >> drivers/usb/dwc3/core.h:1493:45: note: expected ‘struct dwc3 *’ but argument is of type ‘u32’ {aka ‘unsigned int’} >> 1493 | static inline u32 dwc3_mdwidth(struct dwc3 *dwc) >> | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~ > > I'm guessing you were previously using the DWC3_MDWIDTH macro which > operated on the 'hwparams0' reg value directly, but probably had to > switch it to the dwc3_mdwidth() inline function that Thinh had replaced > it with recently. Forgot to compile-test I bet? :) > Ah, looks like that's the case. I tried this on our internal branches, which didn't have Thinh's change, which is probably why it worked in the first place. Will fix this. >> drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c: In function ‘dwc3_qcom_of_register_core’: >> drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c:660:23: error: implicit declaration of function ‘of_add_property’; did you mean ‘of_get_property’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] >> 660 | ret = of_add_property(dwc3_np, prop); >> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> | of_get_property > > Scratched my head on this one a bit, since 'of_add_property' is clearly > declared in <linux/of.h> which dwc3-qcom.c directly includes. Then I > looked closer and saw the declaration only in case of #ifdef CONFIG_OF > and noticed it doesn't have a corresponding no-op static inline > definition in the case of !CONFIG_OF. Again I'm guessing here that Greg > must have built on a non-OF config. We should probably include a patch > that adds the stub. > Nice catch, will add the stub. Thanks Wesley Cheng > Thanks, > Jack > -- The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
Hi Greg/Felipe, On 6/4/2021 7:36 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 05:18:16PM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes: >>> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 12:49:16AM -0700, Wesley Cheng wrote: >>>> Changes in V9: >>>> - Fixed incorrect patch in series. Removed changes in DTSI, as dwc3-qcom will >>>> add the property by default from the kernel. >>> >>> This patch series has one build failure and one warning added: >>> >>> drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c: In function ‘dwc3_gadget_calc_tx_fifo_size’: >>> drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c:653:45: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘dwc3_mdwidth’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion] >>> 653 | mdwidth = dwc3_mdwidth(dwc->hwparams.hwparams0); >>> | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~ >>> | | >>> | u32 {aka unsigned int} >>> In file included from drivers/usb/dwc3/debug.h:14, >>> from drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c:25: >>> drivers/usb/dwc3/core.h:1493:45: note: expected ‘struct dwc3 *’ but argument is of type ‘u32’ {aka ‘unsigned int’} >>> 1493 | static inline u32 dwc3_mdwidth(struct dwc3 *dwc) >>> | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~ >>> >>> >>> drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c: In function ‘dwc3_qcom_of_register_core’: >>> drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c:660:23: error: implicit declaration of function ‘of_add_property’; did you mean ‘of_get_property’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] >>> 660 | ret = of_add_property(dwc3_np, prop); >>> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> | of_get_property >>> >>> >>> How did you test these? I ran these changes on our internal branches, which were probably missing some of the recent changes done to the DWC3 drivers. Will fix the above compile errors and re-submit. In regards to how much these changes have been tested, we've been maintaining the TX FIFO resize logic downstream for a few years already, so its being used in end products. We also verify this with our internal testing, which has certain benchmarks we need to meet. >> >> to be honest, I don't think these should go in (apart from the build >> failure) because it's likely to break instantiations of the core with >> differing FIFO sizes. Some instantiations even have some endpoints with >> dedicated functionality that requires the default FIFO size configured >> during coreConsultant instantiation. I know of at OMAP5 and some Intel >> implementations which have dedicated endpoints for processor tracing. >> >> With OMAP5, these endpoints are configured at the top of the available >> endpoints, which means that if a gadget driver gets loaded and takes >> over most of the FIFO space because of this resizing, processor tracing >> will have a hard time running. That being said, processor tracing isn't >> supported in upstream at this moment. >> I agree that the application of this logic may differ between vendors, hence why I wanted to keep this controllable by the DT property, so that for those which do not support this use case can leave it disabled. The logic is there to ensure that for a given USB configuration, for each EP it would have at least 1 TX FIFO. For USB configurations which don't utilize all available IN EPs, it would allow re-allocation of internal memory to EPs which will actually be in use. >> I still think this may cause other places to break down. The promise the >> databook makes is that increasing the FIFO size over 2x wMaxPacketSize >> should bring little to no benefit, if we're not maintaining that, I >> wonder if the problem is with some of the BUSCFG registers instead, >> where we configure interconnect bursting and the like. > I've been referring mainly to the DWC3 programming guide for recommendations on how to improve USB performance in: Section 3.3.5 System Bus Features to Improve USB Performance At least when I ran the initial profiling, adjusting the RX/TX thresholds brought little to no benefits. Even in some of the examples, they have diagrams showing a TXFIFO size of 6 max packets (Figure 3-5). I think its difficult to say that the TX fifo resizing won't help in systems with limited, or shared resources where the bus latencies would be somewhat larger. By adjusting the TX FIFO size, the controller would be able to fetch more data from system memory into the memory within the controller, leading to less frequent end of bursts, etc... as data is readily available. In terms of adjusting the AXI/AHB bursting, I would think the bandwidth increase would eventually be constrained based on your system's design. We don't touch the GSBUSCFG registers, and leave them as is based off the recommendations from the HW designers. > Good points. > > Wesley, what kind of testing have you done on this on different devices? > As mentioned above, these changes are currently present on end user devices for the past few years, so its been through a lot of testing :). Thanks Wesley Cheng -- The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
Hi, Wesley Cheng <wcheng@codeaurora.org> writes: > Hi Greg/Felipe, > > On 6/4/2021 7:36 AM, Greg KH wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 05:18:16PM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes: >>>> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 12:49:16AM -0700, Wesley Cheng wrote: >>>>> Changes in V9: >>>>> - Fixed incorrect patch in series. Removed changes in DTSI, as dwc3-qcom will >>>>> add the property by default from the kernel. >>>> >>>> This patch series has one build failure and one warning added: >>>> >>>> drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c: In function ‘dwc3_gadget_calc_tx_fifo_size’: >>>> drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c:653:45: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘dwc3_mdwidth’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion] >>>> 653 | mdwidth = dwc3_mdwidth(dwc->hwparams.hwparams0); >>>> | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~ >>>> | | >>>> | u32 {aka unsigned int} >>>> In file included from drivers/usb/dwc3/debug.h:14, >>>> from drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c:25: >>>> drivers/usb/dwc3/core.h:1493:45: note: expected ‘struct dwc3 *’ but argument is of type ‘u32’ {aka ‘unsigned int’} >>>> 1493 | static inline u32 dwc3_mdwidth(struct dwc3 *dwc) >>>> | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~ >>>> >>>> >>>> drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c: In function ‘dwc3_qcom_of_register_core’: >>>> drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c:660:23: error: implicit declaration of function ‘of_add_property’; did you mean ‘of_get_property’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] >>>> 660 | ret = of_add_property(dwc3_np, prop); >>>> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>>> | of_get_property >>>> >>>> >>>> How did you test these? > > I ran these changes on our internal branches, which were probably > missing some of the recent changes done to the DWC3 drivers. Will fix > the above compile errors and re-submit. > > In regards to how much these changes have been tested, we've been > maintaining the TX FIFO resize logic downstream for a few years already, > so its being used in end products. We also verify this with our > internal testing, which has certain benchmarks we need to meet. the problem with that is that you *know* which gadget is running there. You know everyone of those is going to run the android gadget. In a sense, all those multiple products are testing the same exact use case :-) >>> to be honest, I don't think these should go in (apart from the build >>> failure) because it's likely to break instantiations of the core with >>> differing FIFO sizes. Some instantiations even have some endpoints with >>> dedicated functionality that requires the default FIFO size configured >>> during coreConsultant instantiation. I know of at OMAP5 and some Intel >>> implementations which have dedicated endpoints for processor tracing. >>> >>> With OMAP5, these endpoints are configured at the top of the available >>> endpoints, which means that if a gadget driver gets loaded and takes >>> over most of the FIFO space because of this resizing, processor tracing >>> will have a hard time running. That being said, processor tracing isn't >>> supported in upstream at this moment. >>> > > I agree that the application of this logic may differ between vendors, > hence why I wanted to keep this controllable by the DT property, so that > for those which do not support this use case can leave it disabled. The > logic is there to ensure that for a given USB configuration, for each EP > it would have at least 1 TX FIFO. For USB configurations which don't > utilize all available IN EPs, it would allow re-allocation of internal > memory to EPs which will actually be in use. The feature ends up being all-or-nothing, then :-) It sounds like we can be a little nicer in this regard. >>> I still think this may cause other places to break down. The promise the >>> databook makes is that increasing the FIFO size over 2x wMaxPacketSize >>> should bring little to no benefit, if we're not maintaining that, I >>> wonder if the problem is with some of the BUSCFG registers instead, >>> where we configure interconnect bursting and the like. >> > > I've been referring mainly to the DWC3 programming guide for > recommendations on how to improve USB performance in: > Section 3.3.5 System Bus Features to Improve USB Performance dwc3 or dwc3.1? Either way, since I left Intel I don't have access to the databook anymore. I have to trust what you guys are telling me and, based on the description so far, I don't think we're doing the right thing (yet). It would be nice if other users would test this patchset with different gadget drivers and different platforms to have some confidence that we're limiting possible regressions. I would like for Thinh to comment from Synopsys side here. > At least when I ran the initial profiling, adjusting the RX/TX > thresholds brought little to no benefits. Even in some of the examples, right, the FIFO sizes shouldn't help much. At least that's what Paul told me several years ago. Thinh, has the recommendation changed? > they have diagrams showing a TXFIFO size of 6 max packets (Figure 3-5). > I think its difficult to say that the TX fifo resizing won't help in > systems with limited, or shared resources where the bus latencies would > be somewhat larger. By adjusting the TX FIFO size, the controller would > be able to fetch more data from system memory into the memory within the > controller, leading to less frequent end of bursts, etc... as data is > readily available. > > In terms of adjusting the AXI/AHB bursting, I would think the bandwidth > increase would eventually be constrained based on your system's design. > We don't touch the GSBUSCFG registers, and leave them as is based off > the recommendations from the HW designers. Right, I want to touch those as little as possible too :-) However, to illustrate, the only reason I implemented FIFO resizing was because OMAP5 ES1 had TX FIFOs that were smaller than a full USB3 packet. HW Designer's recommendation can be bogus too ;-) >> Good points. >> >> Wesley, what kind of testing have you done on this on different devices? >> > > As mentioned above, these changes are currently present on end user > devices for the past few years, so its been through a lot of testing :). all with the same gadget driver. Also, who uses USB on android devices these days? Most of the data transfer goes via WiFi or Bluetooth, anyway :-) I guess only developers are using USB during development to flash dev images heh.
Hi, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 12:20:00PM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote: >> > As mentioned above, these changes are currently present on end user >> > devices for the past few years, so its been through a lot of testing :). >> >> all with the same gadget driver. Also, who uses USB on android devices >> these days? Most of the data transfer goes via WiFi or Bluetooth, anyway >> :-) > > I used to think that too, until I saw some of the new crazy designs > where lots of SoC connections internally to the device run on USB. Also > look at the USB offload stuff as one example of how the voice sound path > goes through the USB controller on the SoC on the latest Samsung Galaxy > phones that are shipping now :( yeah, that's one reason NOT to touch the FIFO sizes :-) OMAP5 has, as mentioned before, processor trace offload via USB too. If we modify the FIFO configuration set by the HW designer we risk loosing those features. > There's also devices with the modem/network connection going over USB, > along with other device types as well. Android Auto is crazy with yeah, and there will be more coming. USB Debug class is already integrated in some SoCs, that gives us jtag-like access over USB. > almost everything hooked up directly with a USB connection to the host > system running Linux. that's running against USB host, though, right? Android is the host, not the gadget :-) The FIFO sizes here are for the gadget side. >> I guess only developers are using USB during development to flash dev >> images heh. > > I wish, we are reaching the point where the stability of the overall > Android system depends on how well the USB controller works. We are a > product of our success... > > thanks, > > greg k-h
Hi Felipe, On 6/10/2021 2:20 AM, Felipe Balbi wrote: > > Hi, > > Wesley Cheng <wcheng@codeaurora.org> writes: > >> Hi Greg/Felipe, >> >> On 6/4/2021 7:36 AM, Greg KH wrote: >>> On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 05:18:16PM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes: >>>>> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 12:49:16AM -0700, Wesley Cheng wrote: >>>>>> Changes in V9: >>>>>> - Fixed incorrect patch in series. Removed changes in DTSI, as dwc3-qcom will >>>>>> add the property by default from the kernel. >>>>> >>>>> This patch series has one build failure and one warning added: >>>>> >>>>> drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c: In function ‘dwc3_gadget_calc_tx_fifo_size’: >>>>> drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c:653:45: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘dwc3_mdwidth’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion] >>>>> 653 | mdwidth = dwc3_mdwidth(dwc->hwparams.hwparams0); >>>>> | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~ >>>>> | | >>>>> | u32 {aka unsigned int} >>>>> In file included from drivers/usb/dwc3/debug.h:14, >>>>> from drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c:25: >>>>> drivers/usb/dwc3/core.h:1493:45: note: expected ‘struct dwc3 *’ but argument is of type ‘u32’ {aka ‘unsigned int’} >>>>> 1493 | static inline u32 dwc3_mdwidth(struct dwc3 *dwc) >>>>> | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c: In function ‘dwc3_qcom_of_register_core’: >>>>> drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c:660:23: error: implicit declaration of function ‘of_add_property’; did you mean ‘of_get_property’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] >>>>> 660 | ret = of_add_property(dwc3_np, prop); >>>>> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>>>> | of_get_property >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> How did you test these? >> >> I ran these changes on our internal branches, which were probably >> missing some of the recent changes done to the DWC3 drivers. Will fix >> the above compile errors and re-submit. >> >> In regards to how much these changes have been tested, we've been >> maintaining the TX FIFO resize logic downstream for a few years already, >> so its being used in end products. We also verify this with our >> internal testing, which has certain benchmarks we need to meet. > > the problem with that is that you *know* which gadget is running > there. You know everyone of those is going to run the android > gadget. In a sense, all those multiple products are testing the same > exact use case :-) > Mmmm, the USB gadget has changed from since we've implemented it, such as going from Android gadget to Configfs. Don't forget, we do have other business segments that use this feature in other configurations as well :). >>>> to be honest, I don't think these should go in (apart from the build >>>> failure) because it's likely to break instantiations of the core with >>>> differing FIFO sizes. Some instantiations even have some endpoints with >>>> dedicated functionality that requires the default FIFO size configured >>>> during coreConsultant instantiation. I know of at OMAP5 and some Intel >>>> implementations which have dedicated endpoints for processor tracing. >>>> >>>> With OMAP5, these endpoints are configured at the top of the available >>>> endpoints, which means that if a gadget driver gets loaded and takes >>>> over most of the FIFO space because of this resizing, processor tracing >>>> will have a hard time running. That being said, processor tracing isn't >>>> supported in upstream at this moment. >>>> >> >> I agree that the application of this logic may differ between vendors, >> hence why I wanted to keep this controllable by the DT property, so that >> for those which do not support this use case can leave it disabled. The >> logic is there to ensure that for a given USB configuration, for each EP >> it would have at least 1 TX FIFO. For USB configurations which don't >> utilize all available IN EPs, it would allow re-allocation of internal >> memory to EPs which will actually be in use. > > The feature ends up being all-or-nothing, then :-) It sounds like we can > be a little nicer in this regard. > Don't get me wrong, I think once those features become available upstream, we can improve the logic. From what I remember when looking at Andy Shevchenko's Github, the Intel tracer downstream changes were just to remove physical EP1 and 2 from the DWC3 endpoint list. If that was the change which ended up upstream for the Intel tracer then we could improve the logic to avoid re-sizing those particular EPs. However, I'm not sure how the changes would look like in the end, so I would like to wait later down the line to include that :). >>>> I still think this may cause other places to break down. The promise the >>>> databook makes is that increasing the FIFO size over 2x wMaxPacketSize >>>> should bring little to no benefit, if we're not maintaining that, I >>>> wonder if the problem is with some of the BUSCFG registers instead, >>>> where we configure interconnect bursting and the like. >>> >> >> I've been referring mainly to the DWC3 programming guide for >> recommendations on how to improve USB performance in: >> Section 3.3.5 System Bus Features to Improve USB Performance > > dwc3 or dwc3.1? Either way, since I left Intel I don't have access to > the databook anymore. I have to trust what you guys are telling me and, > based on the description so far, I don't think we're doing the right > thing (yet). > Ah, I see. DWC3.1 and DWC3 both have that USB performance section. I can explain some of the points I made with a bit more detail. I thought you still had access to it. > It would be nice if other users would test this patchset with different > gadget drivers and different platforms to have some confidence that > we're limiting possible regressions. > > I would like for Thinh to comment from Synopsys side here. > >> At least when I ran the initial profiling, adjusting the RX/TX >> thresholds brought little to no benefits. Even in some of the examples, > > right, the FIFO sizes shouldn't help much. At least that's what Paul > told me several years ago. Thinh, has the recommendation changed? > So when I mention the RX/TX thresholds, this is different than the FIFO resize. The RX/TX threshold is used by the controller to determine when to send or receive data based on the number of available FIFOs. So for the TX case, if we set the TX threshold, the controller will not start transmitting data over the link after X amount of packets are copied to the TXFIFO. So for example, a TXFIFO size of 6 w/ a TX threshold of 3, means that the controller will wait for 3 FIFO slots to be filled before it sends the data. So as you can see, with our configuration of TX FIFO size of 2 and TX threshold of 1, this would really be not beneficial to us, because we can only change the TX threshold to 2 at max, and at least in my observations, once we have to go out to system memory to fetch the next data packet, that latency takes enough time for the controller to end the current burst. >> they have diagrams showing a TXFIFO size of 6 max packets (Figure 3-5). >> I think its difficult to say that the TX fifo resizing won't help in >> systems with limited, or shared resources where the bus latencies would >> be somewhat larger. By adjusting the TX FIFO size, the controller would >> be able to fetch more data from system memory into the memory within the >> controller, leading to less frequent end of bursts, etc... as data is >> readily available. >> >> In terms of adjusting the AXI/AHB bursting, I would think the bandwidth >> increase would eventually be constrained based on your system's design. >> We don't touch the GSBUSCFG registers, and leave them as is based off >> the recommendations from the HW designers. > > Right, I want to touch those as little as possible too :-) However, to > illustrate, the only reason I implemented FIFO resizing was because > OMAP5 ES1 had TX FIFOs that were smaller than a full USB3 packet. HW > Designer's recommendation can be bogus too ;-) > Haha...true, we question their designs only when there's something clearly wrong, but the AXI/AHB settings look good. :) >>> Good points. >>> >>> Wesley, what kind of testing have you done on this on different devices? >>> >> >> As mentioned above, these changes are currently present on end user >> devices for the past few years, so its been through a lot of testing :). > > all with the same gadget driver. Also, who uses USB on android devices > these days? Most of the data transfer goes via WiFi or Bluetooth, anyway > :-) > > I guess only developers are using USB during development to flash dev > images heh. > I used to be a customer facing engineer, so honestly I did see some really interesting and crazy designs. Again, we do have non-Android products that use the same code, and it has been working in there for a few years as well. The TXFIFO sizing really has helped with multimedia use cases, which use isoc endpoints, since esp. in those lower end CPU chips where latencies across the system are much larger, and a missed ISOC interval leads to a pop in your ear. Thanks Wesley Cheng
Hi, Wesley Cheng <wcheng@codeaurora.org> writes: >>>>> Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes: >>>>>> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 12:49:16AM -0700, Wesley Cheng wrote: >>>>>>> Changes in V9: >>>>>>> - Fixed incorrect patch in series. Removed changes in DTSI, as dwc3-qcom will >>>>>>> add the property by default from the kernel. >>>>>> >>>>>> This patch series has one build failure and one warning added: >>>>>> >>>>>> drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c: In function ‘dwc3_gadget_calc_tx_fifo_size’: >>>>>> drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c:653:45: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘dwc3_mdwidth’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion] >>>>>> 653 | mdwidth = dwc3_mdwidth(dwc->hwparams.hwparams0); >>>>>> | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~ >>>>>> | | >>>>>> | u32 {aka unsigned int} >>>>>> In file included from drivers/usb/dwc3/debug.h:14, >>>>>> from drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c:25: >>>>>> drivers/usb/dwc3/core.h:1493:45: note: expected ‘struct dwc3 *’ but argument is of type ‘u32’ {aka ‘unsigned int’} >>>>>> 1493 | static inline u32 dwc3_mdwidth(struct dwc3 *dwc) >>>>>> | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~ >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c: In function ‘dwc3_qcom_of_register_core’: >>>>>> drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c:660:23: error: implicit declaration of function ‘of_add_property’; did you mean ‘of_get_property’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] >>>>>> 660 | ret = of_add_property(dwc3_np, prop); >>>>>> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>>>>> | of_get_property >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> How did you test these? >>> >>> I ran these changes on our internal branches, which were probably >>> missing some of the recent changes done to the DWC3 drivers. Will fix >>> the above compile errors and re-submit. >>> >>> In regards to how much these changes have been tested, we've been >>> maintaining the TX FIFO resize logic downstream for a few years already, >>> so its being used in end products. We also verify this with our >>> internal testing, which has certain benchmarks we need to meet. >> >> the problem with that is that you *know* which gadget is running >> there. You know everyone of those is going to run the android >> gadget. In a sense, all those multiple products are testing the same >> exact use case :-) >> > > Mmmm, the USB gadget has changed from since we've implemented it, such > as going from Android gadget to Configfs. Don't forget, we do have > other business segments that use this feature in other configurations as > well :). :) >>>>> to be honest, I don't think these should go in (apart from the build >>>>> failure) because it's likely to break instantiations of the core with >>>>> differing FIFO sizes. Some instantiations even have some endpoints with >>>>> dedicated functionality that requires the default FIFO size configured >>>>> during coreConsultant instantiation. I know of at OMAP5 and some Intel >>>>> implementations which have dedicated endpoints for processor tracing. >>>>> >>>>> With OMAP5, these endpoints are configured at the top of the available >>>>> endpoints, which means that if a gadget driver gets loaded and takes >>>>> over most of the FIFO space because of this resizing, processor tracing >>>>> will have a hard time running. That being said, processor tracing isn't >>>>> supported in upstream at this moment. >>>>> >>> >>> I agree that the application of this logic may differ between vendors, >>> hence why I wanted to keep this controllable by the DT property, so that >>> for those which do not support this use case can leave it disabled. The >>> logic is there to ensure that for a given USB configuration, for each EP >>> it would have at least 1 TX FIFO. For USB configurations which don't >>> utilize all available IN EPs, it would allow re-allocation of internal >>> memory to EPs which will actually be in use. >> >> The feature ends up being all-or-nothing, then :-) It sounds like we can >> be a little nicer in this regard. >> > > Don't get me wrong, I think once those features become available > upstream, we can improve the logic. From what I remember when looking sure, I support that. But I want to make sure the first cut isn't likely to break things left and right :) Hence, let's at least get more testing. > at Andy Shevchenko's Github, the Intel tracer downstream changes were > just to remove physical EP1 and 2 from the DWC3 endpoint list. If that right, that's the reason why we introduced the endpoint feature flags. The end goal was that the UDC would be able to have custom feature flags paired with ->validate_endpoint() or whatever before allowing it to be enabled. Then the UDC driver could tell UDC core to skip that endpoint on that particular platform without interefering with everything else. Of course, we still need to figure out a way to abstract the different dwc3 instantiations. > was the change which ended up upstream for the Intel tracer then we > could improve the logic to avoid re-sizing those particular EPs. The problem then, just as I mentioned in the previous paragraph, will be coming up with a solution that's elegant and works for all different instantiations of dwc3 (or musb, cdns3, etc). > However, I'm not sure how the changes would look like in the end, so I > would like to wait later down the line to include that :). Fair enough, I agree. Can we get some more testing of $subject, though? Did you test $subject with upstream too? Which gadget drivers did you use? How did you test >>>>> I still think this may cause other places to break down. The promise the >>>>> databook makes is that increasing the FIFO size over 2x wMaxPacketSize >>>>> should bring little to no benefit, if we're not maintaining that, I >>>>> wonder if the problem is with some of the BUSCFG registers instead, >>>>> where we configure interconnect bursting and the like. >>>> >>> >>> I've been referring mainly to the DWC3 programming guide for >>> recommendations on how to improve USB performance in: >>> Section 3.3.5 System Bus Features to Improve USB Performance >> >> dwc3 or dwc3.1? Either way, since I left Intel I don't have access to >> the databook anymore. I have to trust what you guys are telling me and, >> based on the description so far, I don't think we're doing the right >> thing (yet). >> > > Ah, I see. DWC3.1 and DWC3 both have that USB performance section. I > can explain some of the points I made with a bit more detail. I thought > you still had access to it. I wish :) If Synopsys wants to give me access for the databook, I would not mind :-) >> It would be nice if other users would test this patchset with different >> gadget drivers and different platforms to have some confidence that >> we're limiting possible regressions. >> >> I would like for Thinh to comment from Synopsys side here. >> >>> At least when I ran the initial profiling, adjusting the RX/TX >>> thresholds brought little to no benefits. Even in some of the examples, >> >> right, the FIFO sizes shouldn't help much. At least that's what Paul >> told me several years ago. Thinh, has the recommendation changed? >> > > So when I mention the RX/TX thresholds, this is different than the FIFO > resize. The RX/TX threshold is used by the controller to determine when > to send or receive data based on the number of available FIFOs. So for oh right, I remember now :- > the TX case, if we set the TX threshold, the controller will not start > transmitting data over the link after X amount of packets are copied to > the TXFIFO. So for example, a TXFIFO size of 6 w/ a TX threshold of 3, > means that the controller will wait for 3 FIFO slots to be filled before > it sends the data. So as you can see, with our configuration of TX FIFO yeah, makes sense. > size of 2 and TX threshold of 1, this would really be not beneficial to > us, because we can only change the TX threshold to 2 at max, and at > least in my observations, once we have to go out to system memory to > fetch the next data packet, that latency takes enough time for the > controller to end the current burst. What I noticed with g_mass_storage is that we can amortize the cost of fetching data from memory, with a deeper request queue. Whenever I test(ed) g_mass_storage, I was doing so with 250 requests. And that was enough to give me very good performance. Never had to poke at TX FIFO resizing. Did you try something like this too? I feel that allocating more requests is a far simpler and more generic method that changing FIFO sizes :) >>> they have diagrams showing a TXFIFO size of 6 max packets (Figure 3-5). >>> I think its difficult to say that the TX fifo resizing won't help in >>> systems with limited, or shared resources where the bus latencies would >>> be somewhat larger. By adjusting the TX FIFO size, the controller would >>> be able to fetch more data from system memory into the memory within the >>> controller, leading to less frequent end of bursts, etc... as data is >>> readily available. >>> >>> In terms of adjusting the AXI/AHB bursting, I would think the bandwidth >>> increase would eventually be constrained based on your system's design. >>> We don't touch the GSBUSCFG registers, and leave them as is based off >>> the recommendations from the HW designers. >> >> Right, I want to touch those as little as possible too :-) However, to >> illustrate, the only reason I implemented FIFO resizing was because >> OMAP5 ES1 had TX FIFOs that were smaller than a full USB3 packet. HW >> Designer's recommendation can be bogus too ;-) >> > > Haha...true, we question their designs only when there's something > clearly wrong, but the AXI/AHB settings look good. :) :) >>>> Good points. >>>> >>>> Wesley, what kind of testing have you done on this on different devices? >>>> >>> >>> As mentioned above, these changes are currently present on end user >>> devices for the past few years, so its been through a lot of testing :). >> >> all with the same gadget driver. Also, who uses USB on android devices >> these days? Most of the data transfer goes via WiFi or Bluetooth, anyway >> :-) >> >> I guess only developers are using USB during development to flash dev >> images heh. >> > > I used to be a customer facing engineer, so honestly I did see some > really interesting and crazy designs. Again, we do have non-Android > products that use the same code, and it has been working in there for a > few years as well. The TXFIFO sizing really has helped with multimedia > use cases, which use isoc endpoints, since esp. in those lower end CPU > chips where latencies across the system are much larger, and a missed > ISOC interval leads to a pop in your ear. This is good background information. Thanks for bringing this up. Admitedly, we still have ISOC issues with dwc3. I'm interested in knowing if a deeper request queue would also help here. Remember dwc3 can accomodate 255 requests + link for each endpoint. If our gadget driver uses a low number of requests, we're never really using the TRB ring in our benefit.
Hi Felipe, On 6/10/2021 11:29 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote: > > Hi, > > Wesley Cheng <wcheng@codeaurora.org> writes: >>>>>> Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes: >>>>>>> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 12:49:16AM -0700, Wesley Cheng wrote: >>>>>>>> Changes in V9: >>>>>>>> - Fixed incorrect patch in series. Removed changes in DTSI, as dwc3-qcom will >>>>>>>> add the property by default from the kernel. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> This patch series has one build failure and one warning added: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c: In function ‘dwc3_gadget_calc_tx_fifo_size’: >>>>>>> drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c:653:45: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘dwc3_mdwidth’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion] >>>>>>> 653 | mdwidth = dwc3_mdwidth(dwc->hwparams.hwparams0); >>>>>>> | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~ >>>>>>> | | >>>>>>> | u32 {aka unsigned int} >>>>>>> In file included from drivers/usb/dwc3/debug.h:14, >>>>>>> from drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c:25: >>>>>>> drivers/usb/dwc3/core.h:1493:45: note: expected ‘struct dwc3 *’ but argument is of type ‘u32’ {aka ‘unsigned int’} >>>>>>> 1493 | static inline u32 dwc3_mdwidth(struct dwc3 *dwc) >>>>>>> | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c: In function ‘dwc3_qcom_of_register_core’: >>>>>>> drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c:660:23: error: implicit declaration of function ‘of_add_property’; did you mean ‘of_get_property’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] >>>>>>> 660 | ret = of_add_property(dwc3_np, prop); >>>>>>> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>>>>>> | of_get_property >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> How did you test these? >>>> >>>> I ran these changes on our internal branches, which were probably >>>> missing some of the recent changes done to the DWC3 drivers. Will fix >>>> the above compile errors and re-submit. >>>> >>>> In regards to how much these changes have been tested, we've been >>>> maintaining the TX FIFO resize logic downstream for a few years already, >>>> so its being used in end products. We also verify this with our >>>> internal testing, which has certain benchmarks we need to meet. >>> >>> the problem with that is that you *know* which gadget is running >>> there. You know everyone of those is going to run the android >>> gadget. In a sense, all those multiple products are testing the same >>> exact use case :-) >>> >> >> Mmmm, the USB gadget has changed from since we've implemented it, such >> as going from Android gadget to Configfs. Don't forget, we do have >> other business segments that use this feature in other configurations as >> well :). > > :) > >>>>>> to be honest, I don't think these should go in (apart from the build >>>>>> failure) because it's likely to break instantiations of the core with >>>>>> differing FIFO sizes. Some instantiations even have some endpoints with >>>>>> dedicated functionality that requires the default FIFO size configured >>>>>> during coreConsultant instantiation. I know of at OMAP5 and some Intel >>>>>> implementations which have dedicated endpoints for processor tracing. >>>>>> >>>>>> With OMAP5, these endpoints are configured at the top of the available >>>>>> endpoints, which means that if a gadget driver gets loaded and takes >>>>>> over most of the FIFO space because of this resizing, processor tracing >>>>>> will have a hard time running. That being said, processor tracing isn't >>>>>> supported in upstream at this moment. >>>>>> >>>> >>>> I agree that the application of this logic may differ between vendors, >>>> hence why I wanted to keep this controllable by the DT property, so that >>>> for those which do not support this use case can leave it disabled. The >>>> logic is there to ensure that for a given USB configuration, for each EP >>>> it would have at least 1 TX FIFO. For USB configurations which don't >>>> utilize all available IN EPs, it would allow re-allocation of internal >>>> memory to EPs which will actually be in use. >>> >>> The feature ends up being all-or-nothing, then :-) It sounds like we can >>> be a little nicer in this regard. >>> >> >> Don't get me wrong, I think once those features become available >> upstream, we can improve the logic. From what I remember when looking > > sure, I support that. But I want to make sure the first cut isn't likely > to break things left and right :) > > Hence, let's at least get more testing. > Sure, I'd hope that the other users of DWC3 will also see some pretty big improvements on the TX path with this. >> at Andy Shevchenko's Github, the Intel tracer downstream changes were >> just to remove physical EP1 and 2 from the DWC3 endpoint list. If that > > right, that's the reason why we introduced the endpoint feature > flags. The end goal was that the UDC would be able to have custom > feature flags paired with ->validate_endpoint() or whatever before > allowing it to be enabled. Then the UDC driver could tell UDC core to > skip that endpoint on that particular platform without interefering with > everything else. > > Of course, we still need to figure out a way to abstract the different > dwc3 instantiations. > >> was the change which ended up upstream for the Intel tracer then we >> could improve the logic to avoid re-sizing those particular EPs. > > The problem then, just as I mentioned in the previous paragraph, will be > coming up with a solution that's elegant and works for all different > instantiations of dwc3 (or musb, cdns3, etc). > Well, at least for the TX FIFO resizing logic, we'd only be needing to focus on the DWC3 implementation. You bring up another good topic that I'll eventually needing to be taking a look at, which is a nice way we can handle vendor specific endpoints and how they can co-exist with other "normal" endpoints. We have a few special HW eps as well, which we try to maintain separately in our DWC3 vendor driver, but it isn't the most convenient, or most pretty method :). >> However, I'm not sure how the changes would look like in the end, so I >> would like to wait later down the line to include that :). > > Fair enough, I agree. Can we get some more testing of $subject, though? > Did you test $subject with upstream too? Which gadget drivers did you > use? How did you test > The results that I included in the cover page was tested with the pure upstream kernel on our device. Below was using the ConfigFS gadget w/ a mass storage only composition. Test Parameters: - Platform: Qualcomm SM8150 - bMaxBurst = 6 - USB req size = 256kB - Num of USB reqs = 16 - USB Speed = Super-Speed - Function Driver: Mass Storage (w/ ramdisk) - Test Application: CrystalDiskMark Results: TXFIFO Depth = 3 max packets Test Case | Data Size | AVG tput (in MB/s) ------------------------------------------- Sequential|1 GB x | Read |9 loops | 193.60 | | 195.86 | | 184.77 | | 193.60 ------------------------------------------- TXFIFO Depth = 6 max packets Test Case | Data Size | AVG tput (in MB/s) ------------------------------------------- Sequential|1 GB x | Read |9 loops | 287.35 | | 304.94 | | 289.64 | | 293.61 ------------------------------------------- We also have internal numbers which have shown similar improvements as well. Those are over networking/tethering interfaces, so testing IPERF loopback over TCP/UDP. >>>>>> I still think this may cause other places to break down. The promise the >>>>>> databook makes is that increasing the FIFO size over 2x wMaxPacketSize >>>>>> should bring little to no benefit, if we're not maintaining that, I >>>>>> wonder if the problem is with some of the BUSCFG registers instead, >>>>>> where we configure interconnect bursting and the like. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I've been referring mainly to the DWC3 programming guide for >>>> recommendations on how to improve USB performance in: >>>> Section 3.3.5 System Bus Features to Improve USB Performance >>> >>> dwc3 or dwc3.1? Either way, since I left Intel I don't have access to >>> the databook anymore. I have to trust what you guys are telling me and, >>> based on the description so far, I don't think we're doing the right >>> thing (yet). >>> >> >> Ah, I see. DWC3.1 and DWC3 both have that USB performance section. I >> can explain some of the points I made with a bit more detail. I thought >> you still had access to it. > > I wish :) > > If Synopsys wants to give me access for the databook, I would not mind :-) > >>> It would be nice if other users would test this patchset with different >>> gadget drivers and different platforms to have some confidence that >>> we're limiting possible regressions. >>> >>> I would like for Thinh to comment from Synopsys side here. >>> >>>> At least when I ran the initial profiling, adjusting the RX/TX >>>> thresholds brought little to no benefits. Even in some of the examples, >>> >>> right, the FIFO sizes shouldn't help much. At least that's what Paul >>> told me several years ago. Thinh, has the recommendation changed? >>> >> >> So when I mention the RX/TX thresholds, this is different than the FIFO >> resize. The RX/TX threshold is used by the controller to determine when >> to send or receive data based on the number of available FIFOs. So for > > oh right, I remember now :- > >> the TX case, if we set the TX threshold, the controller will not start >> transmitting data over the link after X amount of packets are copied to >> the TXFIFO. So for example, a TXFIFO size of 6 w/ a TX threshold of 3, >> means that the controller will wait for 3 FIFO slots to be filled before >> it sends the data. So as you can see, with our configuration of TX FIFO > > yeah, makes sense. > >> size of 2 and TX threshold of 1, this would really be not beneficial to >> us, because we can only change the TX threshold to 2 at max, and at >> least in my observations, once we have to go out to system memory to >> fetch the next data packet, that latency takes enough time for the >> controller to end the current burst. > > What I noticed with g_mass_storage is that we can amortize the cost of > fetching data from memory, with a deeper request queue. Whenever I > test(ed) g_mass_storage, I was doing so with 250 requests. And that was > enough to give me very good performance. Never had to poke at TX FIFO > resizing. Did you try something like this too? > > I feel that allocating more requests is a far simpler and more generic > method that changing FIFO sizes :) > I wish I had a USB bus trace handy to show you, which would make it very clear how the USB bus is currently utilized with TXFIFO size 2 vs 6. So by increasing the number of USB requests, that will help if there was a bottleneck at the SW level where the application/function driver utilizing the DWC3 was submitting data much faster than the HW was processing them. So yes, this method of increasing the # of USB reqs will definitely help with situations such as HSUSB or in SSUSB when EP bursting isn't used. The TXFIFO resize comes into play for SSUSB, which utilizes endpoint bursting. Now with endpoint bursting, if the function notifies the host that bursting is supported, when the host sends the ACK for the Data Packet, it should have a NumP value equal to the bMaxBurst reported in the EP desc. If we have a TXFIFO size of 2, then normally what I have seen is that after 2 data packets, the device issues a NRDY. So then we'd need to send an ERDY once data is available within the FIFO, and the same sequence happens until the USB request is complete. With this constant NRDY/ERDY handshake going on, you actually see that the bus is under utilized. When we increase an EP's FIFO size, then you'll see constant bursts for a request, until the request is done, or if the host runs out of RXFIFO. (ie no interruption [on the USB protocol level] during USB request data transfer) >>>> they have diagrams showing a TXFIFO size of 6 max packets (Figure 3-5). >>>> I think its difficult to say that the TX fifo resizing won't help in >>>> systems with limited, or shared resources where the bus latencies would >>>> be somewhat larger. By adjusting the TX FIFO size, the controller would >>>> be able to fetch more data from system memory into the memory within the >>>> controller, leading to less frequent end of bursts, etc... as data is >>>> readily available. >>>> >>>> In terms of adjusting the AXI/AHB bursting, I would think the bandwidth >>>> increase would eventually be constrained based on your system's design. >>>> We don't touch the GSBUSCFG registers, and leave them as is based off >>>> the recommendations from the HW designers. >>> >>> Right, I want to touch those as little as possible too :-) However, to >>> illustrate, the only reason I implemented FIFO resizing was because >>> OMAP5 ES1 had TX FIFOs that were smaller than a full USB3 packet. HW >>> Designer's recommendation can be bogus too ;-) >>> >> >> Haha...true, we question their designs only when there's something >> clearly wrong, but the AXI/AHB settings look good. :) > > :) > >>>>> Good points. >>>>> >>>>> Wesley, what kind of testing have you done on this on different devices? >>>>> >>>> >>>> As mentioned above, these changes are currently present on end user >>>> devices for the past few years, so its been through a lot of testing :). >>> >>> all with the same gadget driver. Also, who uses USB on android devices >>> these days? Most of the data transfer goes via WiFi or Bluetooth, anyway >>> :-) >>> >>> I guess only developers are using USB during development to flash dev >>> images heh. >>> >> >> I used to be a customer facing engineer, so honestly I did see some >> really interesting and crazy designs. Again, we do have non-Android >> products that use the same code, and it has been working in there for a >> few years as well. The TXFIFO sizing really has helped with multimedia >> use cases, which use isoc endpoints, since esp. in those lower end CPU >> chips where latencies across the system are much larger, and a missed >> ISOC interval leads to a pop in your ear. > > This is good background information. Thanks for bringing this > up. Admitedly, we still have ISOC issues with dwc3. I'm interested in > knowing if a deeper request queue would also help here. > > Remember dwc3 can accomodate 255 requests + link for each endpoint. If > our gadget driver uses a low number of requests, we're never really > using the TRB ring in our benefit. > We're actually using both a deeper USB request queue + TX fifo resizing. :). Thanks Wesley Cheng
Hi, Wesley Cheng <wcheng@codeaurora.org> writes: >>>>>>> to be honest, I don't think these should go in (apart from the build >>>>>>> failure) because it's likely to break instantiations of the core with >>>>>>> differing FIFO sizes. Some instantiations even have some endpoints with >>>>>>> dedicated functionality that requires the default FIFO size configured >>>>>>> during coreConsultant instantiation. I know of at OMAP5 and some Intel >>>>>>> implementations which have dedicated endpoints for processor tracing. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> With OMAP5, these endpoints are configured at the top of the available >>>>>>> endpoints, which means that if a gadget driver gets loaded and takes >>>>>>> over most of the FIFO space because of this resizing, processor tracing >>>>>>> will have a hard time running. That being said, processor tracing isn't >>>>>>> supported in upstream at this moment. >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I agree that the application of this logic may differ between vendors, >>>>> hence why I wanted to keep this controllable by the DT property, so that >>>>> for those which do not support this use case can leave it disabled. The >>>>> logic is there to ensure that for a given USB configuration, for each EP >>>>> it would have at least 1 TX FIFO. For USB configurations which don't >>>>> utilize all available IN EPs, it would allow re-allocation of internal >>>>> memory to EPs which will actually be in use. >>>> >>>> The feature ends up being all-or-nothing, then :-) It sounds like we can >>>> be a little nicer in this regard. >>>> >>> >>> Don't get me wrong, I think once those features become available >>> upstream, we can improve the logic. From what I remember when looking >> >> sure, I support that. But I want to make sure the first cut isn't likely >> to break things left and right :) >> >> Hence, let's at least get more testing. >> > > Sure, I'd hope that the other users of DWC3 will also see some pretty > big improvements on the TX path with this. fingers crossed >>> at Andy Shevchenko's Github, the Intel tracer downstream changes were >>> just to remove physical EP1 and 2 from the DWC3 endpoint list. If that >> >> right, that's the reason why we introduced the endpoint feature >> flags. The end goal was that the UDC would be able to have custom >> feature flags paired with ->validate_endpoint() or whatever before >> allowing it to be enabled. Then the UDC driver could tell UDC core to >> skip that endpoint on that particular platform without interefering with >> everything else. >> >> Of course, we still need to figure out a way to abstract the different >> dwc3 instantiations. >> >>> was the change which ended up upstream for the Intel tracer then we >>> could improve the logic to avoid re-sizing those particular EPs. >> >> The problem then, just as I mentioned in the previous paragraph, will be >> coming up with a solution that's elegant and works for all different >> instantiations of dwc3 (or musb, cdns3, etc). >> > > Well, at least for the TX FIFO resizing logic, we'd only be needing to > focus on the DWC3 implementation. > > You bring up another good topic that I'll eventually needing to be > taking a look at, which is a nice way we can handle vendor specific > endpoints and how they can co-exist with other "normal" endpoints. We > have a few special HW eps as well, which we try to maintain separately > in our DWC3 vendor driver, but it isn't the most convenient, or most > pretty method :). Awesome, as mentioned, the endpoint feature flags were added exactly to allow for these vendor-specific features :-) I'm more than happy to help testing now that I finally got our SM8150 Surface Duo device tree accepted by Bjorn ;-) >>> However, I'm not sure how the changes would look like in the end, so I >>> would like to wait later down the line to include that :). >> >> Fair enough, I agree. Can we get some more testing of $subject, though? >> Did you test $subject with upstream too? Which gadget drivers did you >> use? How did you test >> > > The results that I included in the cover page was tested with the pure > upstream kernel on our device. Below was using the ConfigFS gadget w/ a > mass storage only composition. > > Test Parameters: > - Platform: Qualcomm SM8150 > - bMaxBurst = 6 > - USB req size = 256kB > - Num of USB reqs = 16 do you mind testing with the regular request size (16KiB) and 250 requests? I think we can even do 15 bursts in that case. > - USB Speed = Super-Speed > - Function Driver: Mass Storage (w/ ramdisk) > - Test Application: CrystalDiskMark > > Results: > > TXFIFO Depth = 3 max packets > > Test Case | Data Size | AVG tput (in MB/s) > ------------------------------------------- > Sequential|1 GB x | > Read |9 loops | 193.60 > | | 195.86 > | | 184.77 > | | 193.60 > ------------------------------------------- > > TXFIFO Depth = 6 max packets > > Test Case | Data Size | AVG tput (in MB/s) > ------------------------------------------- > Sequential|1 GB x | > Read |9 loops | 287.35 > | | 304.94 > | | 289.64 > | | 293.61 I remember getting close to 400MiB/sec with Intel platforms without resizing FIFOs and I'm sure the FIFO size was set to 2x1024, though my memory could be failing. Then again, I never ran with CrystalDiskMark, I was using my own tool (it's somewhere in github. If you care, I can look up the URL). > We also have internal numbers which have shown similar improvements as > well. Those are over networking/tethering interfaces, so testing IPERF > loopback over TCP/UDP. loopback iperf? That would skip the wire, no? >>> size of 2 and TX threshold of 1, this would really be not beneficial to >>> us, because we can only change the TX threshold to 2 at max, and at >>> least in my observations, once we have to go out to system memory to >>> fetch the next data packet, that latency takes enough time for the >>> controller to end the current burst. >> >> What I noticed with g_mass_storage is that we can amortize the cost of >> fetching data from memory, with a deeper request queue. Whenever I >> test(ed) g_mass_storage, I was doing so with 250 requests. And that was >> enough to give me very good performance. Never had to poke at TX FIFO >> resizing. Did you try something like this too? >> >> I feel that allocating more requests is a far simpler and more generic >> method that changing FIFO sizes :) >> > > I wish I had a USB bus trace handy to show you, which would make it very > clear how the USB bus is currently utilized with TXFIFO size 2 vs 6. So > by increasing the number of USB requests, that will help if there was a > bottleneck at the SW level where the application/function driver > utilizing the DWC3 was submitting data much faster than the HW was > processing them. > > So yes, this method of increasing the # of USB reqs will definitely help > with situations such as HSUSB or in SSUSB when EP bursting isn't used. > The TXFIFO resize comes into play for SSUSB, which utilizes endpoint > bursting. Hmm, that's not what I remember. Perhaps the TRB cache size plays a role here too. I have clear memories of testing this very scenario of bursting (using g_mass_storage at the time) because I was curious about it. Back then, my tests showed no difference in behavior. It could be nice if Heikki could test Intel parts with and without your changes on g_mass_storage with 250 requests. > Now with endpoint bursting, if the function notifies the host that > bursting is supported, when the host sends the ACK for the Data Packet, > it should have a NumP value equal to the bMaxBurst reported in the EP Yes and no. Looking back at the history, we used to configure NUMP based on bMaxBurst, but it was changed later in commit 4e99472bc10bda9906526d725ff6d5f27b4ddca1 by yours truly because of a problem reported by John Youn. And now we've come full circle. Because even if I believe more requests are enough for bursting, NUMP is limited by the RxFIFO size. This ends up supporting your claim that we need RxFIFO resizing if we want to squeeze more throughput out of the controller. However, note that this is about RxFIFO size, not TxFIFO size. In fact, looking at Table 8-13 of USB 3.1 r1.0, we read the following about NumP (emphasis is mine): "Number of Packets (NumP). This field is used to indicate the number of Data Packet buffers that the **receiver** can accept. The value in this field shall be less than or equal to the maximum burst size supported by the endpoint as determined by the value in the bMaxBurst field in the Endpoint Companion Descriptor (refer to Section 9.6.7)." So, NumP is for the receiver, not the transmitter. Could you clarify what you mean here? /me keeps reading Hmm, table 8-15 tries to clarify: "Number of Packets (NumP). For an OUT endpoint, refer to Table 8-13 for the description of this field. For an IN endpoint this field is set by the endpoint to the number of packets it can transmit when the host resumes transactions to it. This field shall not have a value greater than the maximum burst size supported by the endpoint as indicated by the value in the bMaxBurst field in the Endpoint Companion Descriptor. Note that the value reported in this field may be treated by the host as informative only." However, if I remember correctly (please verify dwc3 databook), NUMP in DCFG was only for receive buffers. Thin, John, how does dwc3 compute NumP for TX/IN endpoints? Is that computed as a function of DCFG.NUMP or TxFIFO size? > desc. If we have a TXFIFO size of 2, then normally what I have seen is > that after 2 data packets, the device issues a NRDY. So then we'd need > to send an ERDY once data is available within the FIFO, and the same > sequence happens until the USB request is complete. With this constant > NRDY/ERDY handshake going on, you actually see that the bus is under > utilized. When we increase an EP's FIFO size, then you'll see constant > bursts for a request, until the request is done, or if the host runs out > of RXFIFO. (ie no interruption [on the USB protocol level] during USB > request data transfer) Unfortunately I don't have access to a USB sniffer anymore :-( >>>>>> Good points. >>>>>> >>>>>> Wesley, what kind of testing have you done on this on different devices? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> As mentioned above, these changes are currently present on end user >>>>> devices for the past few years, so its been through a lot of testing :). >>>> >>>> all with the same gadget driver. Also, who uses USB on android devices >>>> these days? Most of the data transfer goes via WiFi or Bluetooth, anyway >>>> :-) >>>> >>>> I guess only developers are using USB during development to flash dev >>>> images heh. >>>> >>> >>> I used to be a customer facing engineer, so honestly I did see some >>> really interesting and crazy designs. Again, we do have non-Android >>> products that use the same code, and it has been working in there for a >>> few years as well. The TXFIFO sizing really has helped with multimedia >>> use cases, which use isoc endpoints, since esp. in those lower end CPU >>> chips where latencies across the system are much larger, and a missed >>> ISOC interval leads to a pop in your ear. >> >> This is good background information. Thanks for bringing this >> up. Admitedly, we still have ISOC issues with dwc3. I'm interested in >> knowing if a deeper request queue would also help here. >> >> Remember dwc3 can accomodate 255 requests + link for each endpoint. If >> our gadget driver uses a low number of requests, we're never really >> using the TRB ring in our benefit. >> > > We're actually using both a deeper USB request queue + TX fifo resizing. :). okay, great. Let's see what John and/or Thinh respond WRT dwc3 TX Burst behavior.
On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 04:00:38PM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote: > > Hi, > > Wesley Cheng <wcheng@codeaurora.org> writes: > >>>>>>> to be honest, I don't think these should go in (apart from the build > >>>>>>> failure) because it's likely to break instantiations of the core with > >>>>>>> differing FIFO sizes. Some instantiations even have some endpoints with > >>>>>>> dedicated functionality that requires the default FIFO size configured > >>>>>>> during coreConsultant instantiation. I know of at OMAP5 and some Intel > >>>>>>> implementations which have dedicated endpoints for processor tracing. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> With OMAP5, these endpoints are configured at the top of the available > >>>>>>> endpoints, which means that if a gadget driver gets loaded and takes > >>>>>>> over most of the FIFO space because of this resizing, processor tracing > >>>>>>> will have a hard time running. That being said, processor tracing isn't > >>>>>>> supported in upstream at this moment. > >>>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> I agree that the application of this logic may differ between vendors, > >>>>> hence why I wanted to keep this controllable by the DT property, so that > >>>>> for those which do not support this use case can leave it disabled. The > >>>>> logic is there to ensure that for a given USB configuration, for each EP > >>>>> it would have at least 1 TX FIFO. For USB configurations which don't > >>>>> utilize all available IN EPs, it would allow re-allocation of internal > >>>>> memory to EPs which will actually be in use. > >>>> > >>>> The feature ends up being all-or-nothing, then :-) It sounds like we can > >>>> be a little nicer in this regard. > >>>> > >>> > >>> Don't get me wrong, I think once those features become available > >>> upstream, we can improve the logic. From what I remember when looking > >> > >> sure, I support that. But I want to make sure the first cut isn't likely > >> to break things left and right :) > >> > >> Hence, let's at least get more testing. > >> > > > > Sure, I'd hope that the other users of DWC3 will also see some pretty > > big improvements on the TX path with this. > > fingers crossed > > >>> at Andy Shevchenko's Github, the Intel tracer downstream changes were > >>> just to remove physical EP1 and 2 from the DWC3 endpoint list. If that > >> > >> right, that's the reason why we introduced the endpoint feature > >> flags. The end goal was that the UDC would be able to have custom > >> feature flags paired with ->validate_endpoint() or whatever before > >> allowing it to be enabled. Then the UDC driver could tell UDC core to > >> skip that endpoint on that particular platform without interefering with > >> everything else. > >> > >> Of course, we still need to figure out a way to abstract the different > >> dwc3 instantiations. > >> > >>> was the change which ended up upstream for the Intel tracer then we > >>> could improve the logic to avoid re-sizing those particular EPs. > >> > >> The problem then, just as I mentioned in the previous paragraph, will be > >> coming up with a solution that's elegant and works for all different > >> instantiations of dwc3 (or musb, cdns3, etc). > >> > > > > Well, at least for the TX FIFO resizing logic, we'd only be needing to > > focus on the DWC3 implementation. > > > > You bring up another good topic that I'll eventually needing to be > > taking a look at, which is a nice way we can handle vendor specific > > endpoints and how they can co-exist with other "normal" endpoints. We > > have a few special HW eps as well, which we try to maintain separately > > in our DWC3 vendor driver, but it isn't the most convenient, or most > > pretty method :). > > Awesome, as mentioned, the endpoint feature flags were added exactly to > allow for these vendor-specific features :-) > > I'm more than happy to help testing now that I finally got our SM8150 > Surface Duo device tree accepted by Bjorn ;-) > > >>> However, I'm not sure how the changes would look like in the end, so I > >>> would like to wait later down the line to include that :). > >> > >> Fair enough, I agree. Can we get some more testing of $subject, though? > >> Did you test $subject with upstream too? Which gadget drivers did you > >> use? How did you test > >> > > > > The results that I included in the cover page was tested with the pure > > upstream kernel on our device. Below was using the ConfigFS gadget w/ a > > mass storage only composition. > > > > Test Parameters: > > - Platform: Qualcomm SM8150 > > - bMaxBurst = 6 > > - USB req size = 256kB > > - Num of USB reqs = 16 > > do you mind testing with the regular request size (16KiB) and 250 > requests? I think we can even do 15 bursts in that case. > > > - USB Speed = Super-Speed > > - Function Driver: Mass Storage (w/ ramdisk) > > - Test Application: CrystalDiskMark > > > > Results: > > > > TXFIFO Depth = 3 max packets > > > > Test Case | Data Size | AVG tput (in MB/s) > > ------------------------------------------- > > Sequential|1 GB x | > > Read |9 loops | 193.60 > > | | 195.86 > > | | 184.77 > > | | 193.60 > > ------------------------------------------- > > > > TXFIFO Depth = 6 max packets > > > > Test Case | Data Size | AVG tput (in MB/s) > > ------------------------------------------- > > Sequential|1 GB x | > > Read |9 loops | 287.35 > > | | 304.94 > > | | 289.64 > > | | 293.61 > > I remember getting close to 400MiB/sec with Intel platforms without > resizing FIFOs and I'm sure the FIFO size was set to 2x1024, though my > memory could be failing. > > Then again, I never ran with CrystalDiskMark, I was using my own tool > (it's somewhere in github. If you care, I can look up the URL). > > > We also have internal numbers which have shown similar improvements as > > well. Those are over networking/tethering interfaces, so testing IPERF > > loopback over TCP/UDP. > > loopback iperf? That would skip the wire, no? > > >>> size of 2 and TX threshold of 1, this would really be not beneficial to > >>> us, because we can only change the TX threshold to 2 at max, and at > >>> least in my observations, once we have to go out to system memory to > >>> fetch the next data packet, that latency takes enough time for the > >>> controller to end the current burst. > >> > >> What I noticed with g_mass_storage is that we can amortize the cost of > >> fetching data from memory, with a deeper request queue. Whenever I > >> test(ed) g_mass_storage, I was doing so with 250 requests. And that was > >> enough to give me very good performance. Never had to poke at TX FIFO > >> resizing. Did you try something like this too? > >> > >> I feel that allocating more requests is a far simpler and more generic > >> method that changing FIFO sizes :) > >> > > > > I wish I had a USB bus trace handy to show you, which would make it very > > clear how the USB bus is currently utilized with TXFIFO size 2 vs 6. So > > by increasing the number of USB requests, that will help if there was a > > bottleneck at the SW level where the application/function driver > > utilizing the DWC3 was submitting data much faster than the HW was > > processing them. > > > > So yes, this method of increasing the # of USB reqs will definitely help > > with situations such as HSUSB or in SSUSB when EP bursting isn't used. > > The TXFIFO resize comes into play for SSUSB, which utilizes endpoint > > bursting. > > Hmm, that's not what I remember. Perhaps the TRB cache size plays a role > here too. I have clear memories of testing this very scenario of > bursting (using g_mass_storage at the time) because I was curious about > it. Back then, my tests showed no difference in behavior. > > It could be nice if Heikki could test Intel parts with and without your > changes on g_mass_storage with 250 requests. Andy, you have a system at hand that has the DWC3 block enabled, right? Can you help out here? thanks, > > Now with endpoint bursting, if the function notifies the host that > > bursting is supported, when the host sends the ACK for the Data Packet, > > it should have a NumP value equal to the bMaxBurst reported in the EP > > Yes and no. Looking back at the history, we used to configure NUMP based > on bMaxBurst, but it was changed later in commit > 4e99472bc10bda9906526d725ff6d5f27b4ddca1 by yours truly because of a > problem reported by John Youn. > > And now we've come full circle. Because even if I believe more requests > are enough for bursting, NUMP is limited by the RxFIFO size. This ends > up supporting your claim that we need RxFIFO resizing if we want to > squeeze more throughput out of the controller. > > However, note that this is about RxFIFO size, not TxFIFO size. In fact, > looking at Table 8-13 of USB 3.1 r1.0, we read the following about NumP > (emphasis is mine): > > "Number of Packets (NumP). This field is used to indicate the > number of Data Packet buffers that the **receiver** can > accept. The value in this field shall be less than or equal to > the maximum burst size supported by the endpoint as determined > by the value in the bMaxBurst field in the Endpoint Companion > Descriptor (refer to Section 9.6.7)." > > So, NumP is for the receiver, not the transmitter. Could you clarify > what you mean here? > > /me keeps reading > > Hmm, table 8-15 tries to clarify: > > "Number of Packets (NumP). > > For an OUT endpoint, refer to Table 8-13 for the description of > this field. > > For an IN endpoint this field is set by the endpoint to the > number of packets it can transmit when the host resumes > transactions to it. This field shall not have a value greater > than the maximum burst size supported by the endpoint as > indicated by the value in the bMaxBurst field in the Endpoint > Companion Descriptor. Note that the value reported in this field > may be treated by the host as informative only." > > However, if I remember correctly (please verify dwc3 databook), NUMP in > DCFG was only for receive buffers. Thin, John, how does dwc3 compute > NumP for TX/IN endpoints? Is that computed as a function of DCFG.NUMP or > TxFIFO size? > > > desc. If we have a TXFIFO size of 2, then normally what I have seen is > > that after 2 data packets, the device issues a NRDY. So then we'd need > > to send an ERDY once data is available within the FIFO, and the same > > sequence happens until the USB request is complete. With this constant > > NRDY/ERDY handshake going on, you actually see that the bus is under > > utilized. When we increase an EP's FIFO size, then you'll see constant > > bursts for a request, until the request is done, or if the host runs out > > of RXFIFO. (ie no interruption [on the USB protocol level] during USB > > request data transfer) > > Unfortunately I don't have access to a USB sniffer anymore :-( > > >>>>>> Good points. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Wesley, what kind of testing have you done on this on different devices? > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> As mentioned above, these changes are currently present on end user > >>>>> devices for the past few years, so its been through a lot of testing :). > >>>> > >>>> all with the same gadget driver. Also, who uses USB on android devices > >>>> these days? Most of the data transfer goes via WiFi or Bluetooth, anyway > >>>> :-) > >>>> > >>>> I guess only developers are using USB during development to flash dev > >>>> images heh. > >>>> > >>> > >>> I used to be a customer facing engineer, so honestly I did see some > >>> really interesting and crazy designs. Again, we do have non-Android > >>> products that use the same code, and it has been working in there for a > >>> few years as well. The TXFIFO sizing really has helped with multimedia > >>> use cases, which use isoc endpoints, since esp. in those lower end CPU > >>> chips where latencies across the system are much larger, and a missed > >>> ISOC interval leads to a pop in your ear. > >> > >> This is good background information. Thanks for bringing this > >> up. Admitedly, we still have ISOC issues with dwc3. I'm interested in > >> knowing if a deeper request queue would also help here. > >> > >> Remember dwc3 can accomodate 255 requests + link for each endpoint. If > >> our gadget driver uses a low number of requests, we're never really > >> using the TRB ring in our benefit. > >> > > > > We're actually using both a deeper USB request queue + TX fifo resizing. :). > > okay, great. Let's see what John and/or Thinh respond WRT dwc3 TX Burst > behavior.
On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 4:14 PM Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 04:00:38PM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Wesley Cheng <wcheng@codeaurora.org> writes: > > >>>>>>> to be honest, I don't think these should go in (apart from the build > > >>>>>>> failure) because it's likely to break instantiations of the core with > > >>>>>>> differing FIFO sizes. Some instantiations even have some endpoints with > > >>>>>>> dedicated functionality that requires the default FIFO size configured > > >>>>>>> during coreConsultant instantiation. I know of at OMAP5 and some Intel > > >>>>>>> implementations which have dedicated endpoints for processor tracing. > > >>>>>>> > > >>>>>>> With OMAP5, these endpoints are configured at the top of the available > > >>>>>>> endpoints, which means that if a gadget driver gets loaded and takes > > >>>>>>> over most of the FIFO space because of this resizing, processor tracing > > >>>>>>> will have a hard time running. That being said, processor tracing isn't > > >>>>>>> supported in upstream at this moment. > > >>>>>>> > > >>>>> > > >>>>> I agree that the application of this logic may differ between vendors, > > >>>>> hence why I wanted to keep this controllable by the DT property, so that > > >>>>> for those which do not support this use case can leave it disabled. The > > >>>>> logic is there to ensure that for a given USB configuration, for each EP > > >>>>> it would have at least 1 TX FIFO. For USB configurations which don't > > >>>>> utilize all available IN EPs, it would allow re-allocation of internal > > >>>>> memory to EPs which will actually be in use. > > >>>> > > >>>> The feature ends up being all-or-nothing, then :-) It sounds like we can > > >>>> be a little nicer in this regard. > > >>>> > > >>> > > >>> Don't get me wrong, I think once those features become available > > >>> upstream, we can improve the logic. From what I remember when looking > > >> > > >> sure, I support that. But I want to make sure the first cut isn't likely > > >> to break things left and right :) > > >> > > >> Hence, let's at least get more testing. > > >> > > > > > > Sure, I'd hope that the other users of DWC3 will also see some pretty > > > big improvements on the TX path with this. > > > > fingers crossed > > > > >>> at Andy Shevchenko's Github, the Intel tracer downstream changes were > > >>> just to remove physical EP1 and 2 from the DWC3 endpoint list. If that > > >> > > >> right, that's the reason why we introduced the endpoint feature > > >> flags. The end goal was that the UDC would be able to have custom > > >> feature flags paired with ->validate_endpoint() or whatever before > > >> allowing it to be enabled. Then the UDC driver could tell UDC core to > > >> skip that endpoint on that particular platform without interefering with > > >> everything else. > > >> > > >> Of course, we still need to figure out a way to abstract the different > > >> dwc3 instantiations. > > >> > > >>> was the change which ended up upstream for the Intel tracer then we > > >>> could improve the logic to avoid re-sizing those particular EPs. > > >> > > >> The problem then, just as I mentioned in the previous paragraph, will be > > >> coming up with a solution that's elegant and works for all different > > >> instantiations of dwc3 (or musb, cdns3, etc). > > >> > > > > > > Well, at least for the TX FIFO resizing logic, we'd only be needing to > > > focus on the DWC3 implementation. > > > > > > You bring up another good topic that I'll eventually needing to be > > > taking a look at, which is a nice way we can handle vendor specific > > > endpoints and how they can co-exist with other "normal" endpoints. We > > > have a few special HW eps as well, which we try to maintain separately > > > in our DWC3 vendor driver, but it isn't the most convenient, or most > > > pretty method :). > > > > Awesome, as mentioned, the endpoint feature flags were added exactly to > > allow for these vendor-specific features :-) > > > > I'm more than happy to help testing now that I finally got our SM8150 > > Surface Duo device tree accepted by Bjorn ;-) > > > > >>> However, I'm not sure how the changes would look like in the end, so I > > >>> would like to wait later down the line to include that :). > > >> > > >> Fair enough, I agree. Can we get some more testing of $subject, though? > > >> Did you test $subject with upstream too? Which gadget drivers did you > > >> use? How did you test > > >> > > > > > > The results that I included in the cover page was tested with the pure > > > upstream kernel on our device. Below was using the ConfigFS gadget w/ a > > > mass storage only composition. > > > > > > Test Parameters: > > > - Platform: Qualcomm SM8150 > > > - bMaxBurst = 6 > > > - USB req size = 256kB > > > - Num of USB reqs = 16 > > > > do you mind testing with the regular request size (16KiB) and 250 > > requests? I think we can even do 15 bursts in that case. > > > > > - USB Speed = Super-Speed > > > - Function Driver: Mass Storage (w/ ramdisk) > > > - Test Application: CrystalDiskMark > > > > > > Results: > > > > > > TXFIFO Depth = 3 max packets > > > > > > Test Case | Data Size | AVG tput (in MB/s) > > > ------------------------------------------- > > > Sequential|1 GB x | > > > Read |9 loops | 193.60 > > > | | 195.86 > > > | | 184.77 > > > | | 193.60 > > > ------------------------------------------- > > > > > > TXFIFO Depth = 6 max packets > > > > > > Test Case | Data Size | AVG tput (in MB/s) > > > ------------------------------------------- > > > Sequential|1 GB x | > > > Read |9 loops | 287.35 > > > | | 304.94 > > > | | 289.64 > > > | | 293.61 > > > > I remember getting close to 400MiB/sec with Intel platforms without > > resizing FIFOs and I'm sure the FIFO size was set to 2x1024, though my > > memory could be failing. > > > > Then again, I never ran with CrystalDiskMark, I was using my own tool > > (it's somewhere in github. If you care, I can look up the URL). > > > > > We also have internal numbers which have shown similar improvements as > > > well. Those are over networking/tethering interfaces, so testing IPERF > > > loopback over TCP/UDP. > > > > loopback iperf? That would skip the wire, no? > > > > >>> size of 2 and TX threshold of 1, this would really be not beneficial to > > >>> us, because we can only change the TX threshold to 2 at max, and at > > >>> least in my observations, once we have to go out to system memory to > > >>> fetch the next data packet, that latency takes enough time for the > > >>> controller to end the current burst. > > >> > > >> What I noticed with g_mass_storage is that we can amortize the cost of > > >> fetching data from memory, with a deeper request queue. Whenever I > > >> test(ed) g_mass_storage, I was doing so with 250 requests. And that was > > >> enough to give me very good performance. Never had to poke at TX FIFO > > >> resizing. Did you try something like this too? > > >> > > >> I feel that allocating more requests is a far simpler and more generic > > >> method that changing FIFO sizes :) > > >> > > > > > > I wish I had a USB bus trace handy to show you, which would make it very > > > clear how the USB bus is currently utilized with TXFIFO size 2 vs 6. So > > > by increasing the number of USB requests, that will help if there was a > > > bottleneck at the SW level where the application/function driver > > > utilizing the DWC3 was submitting data much faster than the HW was > > > processing them. > > > > > > So yes, this method of increasing the # of USB reqs will definitely help > > > with situations such as HSUSB or in SSUSB when EP bursting isn't used. > > > The TXFIFO resize comes into play for SSUSB, which utilizes endpoint > > > bursting. > > > > Hmm, that's not what I remember. Perhaps the TRB cache size plays a role > > here too. I have clear memories of testing this very scenario of > > bursting (using g_mass_storage at the time) because I was curious about > > it. Back then, my tests showed no difference in behavior. > > > > It could be nice if Heikki could test Intel parts with and without your > > changes on g_mass_storage with 250 requests. > > Andy, you have a system at hand that has the DWC3 block enabled, > right? Can you help out here? I'm not sure if i will have time soon, I Cc'ed to Ferry who has a few more test cases (I have only one or two) and maybe can help. But I'll keep this in mind. > > > Now with endpoint bursting, if the function notifies the host that > > > bursting is supported, when the host sends the ACK for the Data Packet, > > > it should have a NumP value equal to the bMaxBurst reported in the EP > > > > Yes and no. Looking back at the history, we used to configure NUMP based > > on bMaxBurst, but it was changed later in commit > > 4e99472bc10bda9906526d725ff6d5f27b4ddca1 by yours truly because of a > > problem reported by John Youn. > > > > And now we've come full circle. Because even if I believe more requests > > are enough for bursting, NUMP is limited by the RxFIFO size. This ends > > up supporting your claim that we need RxFIFO resizing if we want to > > squeeze more throughput out of the controller. > > > > However, note that this is about RxFIFO size, not TxFIFO size. In fact, > > looking at Table 8-13 of USB 3.1 r1.0, we read the following about NumP > > (emphasis is mine): > > > > "Number of Packets (NumP). This field is used to indicate the > > number of Data Packet buffers that the **receiver** can > > accept. The value in this field shall be less than or equal to > > the maximum burst size supported by the endpoint as determined > > by the value in the bMaxBurst field in the Endpoint Companion > > Descriptor (refer to Section 9.6.7)." > > > > So, NumP is for the receiver, not the transmitter. Could you clarify > > what you mean here? > > > > /me keeps reading > > > > Hmm, table 8-15 tries to clarify: > > > > "Number of Packets (NumP). > > > > For an OUT endpoint, refer to Table 8-13 for the description of > > this field. > > > > For an IN endpoint this field is set by the endpoint to the > > number of packets it can transmit when the host resumes > > transactions to it. This field shall not have a value greater > > than the maximum burst size supported by the endpoint as > > indicated by the value in the bMaxBurst field in the Endpoint > > Companion Descriptor. Note that the value reported in this field > > may be treated by the host as informative only." > > > > However, if I remember correctly (please verify dwc3 databook), NUMP in > > DCFG was only for receive buffers. Thin, John, how does dwc3 compute > > NumP for TX/IN endpoints? Is that computed as a function of DCFG.NUMP or > > TxFIFO size? > > > > > desc. If we have a TXFIFO size of 2, then normally what I have seen is > > > that after 2 data packets, the device issues a NRDY. So then we'd need > > > to send an ERDY once data is available within the FIFO, and the same > > > sequence happens until the USB request is complete. With this constant > > > NRDY/ERDY handshake going on, you actually see that the bus is under > > > utilized. When we increase an EP's FIFO size, then you'll see constant > > > bursts for a request, until the request is done, or if the host runs out > > > of RXFIFO. (ie no interruption [on the USB protocol level] during USB > > > request data transfer) > > > > Unfortunately I don't have access to a USB sniffer anymore :-( > > > > >>>>>> Good points. > > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> Wesley, what kind of testing have you done on this on different devices? > > >>>>>> > > >>>>> > > >>>>> As mentioned above, these changes are currently present on end user > > >>>>> devices for the past few years, so its been through a lot of testing :). > > >>>> > > >>>> all with the same gadget driver. Also, who uses USB on android devices > > >>>> these days? Most of the data transfer goes via WiFi or Bluetooth, anyway > > >>>> :-) > > >>>> > > >>>> I guess only developers are using USB during development to flash dev > > >>>> images heh. > > >>>> > > >>> > > >>> I used to be a customer facing engineer, so honestly I did see some > > >>> really interesting and crazy designs. Again, we do have non-Android > > >>> products that use the same code, and it has been working in there for a > > >>> few years as well. The TXFIFO sizing really has helped with multimedia > > >>> use cases, which use isoc endpoints, since esp. in those lower end CPU > > >>> chips where latencies across the system are much larger, and a missed > > >>> ISOC interval leads to a pop in your ear. > > >> > > >> This is good background information. Thanks for bringing this > > >> up. Admitedly, we still have ISOC issues with dwc3. I'm interested in > > >> knowing if a deeper request queue would also help here. > > >> > > >> Remember dwc3 can accomodate 255 requests + link for each endpoint. If > > >> our gadget driver uses a low number of requests, we're never really > > >> using the TRB ring in our benefit. > > >> > > > > > > We're actually using both a deeper USB request queue + TX fifo resizing. :). > > > > okay, great. Let's see what John and/or Thinh respond WRT dwc3 TX Burst > > behavior. > > -- > heikki
Hi Op 11-06-2021 om 15:21 schreef Andy Shevchenko: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 4:14 PM Heikki Krogerus > <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 04:00:38PM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Wesley Cheng <wcheng@codeaurora.org> writes: >>>>>>>>>> to be honest, I don't think these should go in (apart from the build >>>>>>>>>> failure) because it's likely to break instantiations of the core with >>>>>>>>>> differing FIFO sizes. Some instantiations even have some endpoints with >>>>>>>>>> dedicated functionality that requires the default FIFO size configured >>>>>>>>>> during coreConsultant instantiation. I know of at OMAP5 and some Intel >>>>>>>>>> implementations which have dedicated endpoints for processor tracing. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> With OMAP5, these endpoints are configured at the top of the available >>>>>>>>>> endpoints, which means that if a gadget driver gets loaded and takes >>>>>>>>>> over most of the FIFO space because of this resizing, processor tracing >>>>>>>>>> will have a hard time running. That being said, processor tracing isn't >>>>>>>>>> supported in upstream at this moment. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I agree that the application of this logic may differ between vendors, >>>>>>>> hence why I wanted to keep this controllable by the DT property, so that >>>>>>>> for those which do not support this use case can leave it disabled. The >>>>>>>> logic is there to ensure that for a given USB configuration, for each EP >>>>>>>> it would have at least 1 TX FIFO. For USB configurations which don't >>>>>>>> utilize all available IN EPs, it would allow re-allocation of internal >>>>>>>> memory to EPs which will actually be in use. >>>>>>> The feature ends up being all-or-nothing, then :-) It sounds like we can >>>>>>> be a little nicer in this regard. >>>>>>> >>>>>> Don't get me wrong, I think once those features become available >>>>>> upstream, we can improve the logic. From what I remember when looking >>>>> sure, I support that. But I want to make sure the first cut isn't likely >>>>> to break things left and right :) >>>>> >>>>> Hence, let's at least get more testing. >>>>> >>>> Sure, I'd hope that the other users of DWC3 will also see some pretty >>>> big improvements on the TX path with this. >>> fingers crossed >>> >>>>>> at Andy Shevchenko's Github, the Intel tracer downstream changes were >>>>>> just to remove physical EP1 and 2 from the DWC3 endpoint list. If that >>>>> right, that's the reason why we introduced the endpoint feature >>>>> flags. The end goal was that the UDC would be able to have custom >>>>> feature flags paired with ->validate_endpoint() or whatever before >>>>> allowing it to be enabled. Then the UDC driver could tell UDC core to >>>>> skip that endpoint on that particular platform without interefering with >>>>> everything else. >>>>> >>>>> Of course, we still need to figure out a way to abstract the different >>>>> dwc3 instantiations. >>>>> >>>>>> was the change which ended up upstream for the Intel tracer then we >>>>>> could improve the logic to avoid re-sizing those particular EPs. >>>>> The problem then, just as I mentioned in the previous paragraph, will be >>>>> coming up with a solution that's elegant and works for all different >>>>> instantiations of dwc3 (or musb, cdns3, etc). >>>>> >>>> Well, at least for the TX FIFO resizing logic, we'd only be needing to >>>> focus on the DWC3 implementation. >>>> >>>> You bring up another good topic that I'll eventually needing to be >>>> taking a look at, which is a nice way we can handle vendor specific >>>> endpoints and how they can co-exist with other "normal" endpoints. We >>>> have a few special HW eps as well, which we try to maintain separately >>>> in our DWC3 vendor driver, but it isn't the most convenient, or most >>>> pretty method :). >>> Awesome, as mentioned, the endpoint feature flags were added exactly to >>> allow for these vendor-specific features :-) >>> >>> I'm more than happy to help testing now that I finally got our SM8150 >>> Surface Duo device tree accepted by Bjorn ;-) >>> >>>>>> However, I'm not sure how the changes would look like in the end, so I >>>>>> would like to wait later down the line to include that :). >>>>> Fair enough, I agree. Can we get some more testing of $subject, though? >>>>> Did you test $subject with upstream too? Which gadget drivers did you >>>>> use? How did you test >>>>> >>>> The results that I included in the cover page was tested with the pure >>>> upstream kernel on our device. Below was using the ConfigFS gadget w/ a >>>> mass storage only composition. >>>> >>>> Test Parameters: >>>> - Platform: Qualcomm SM8150 >>>> - bMaxBurst = 6 >>>> - USB req size = 256kB >>>> - Num of USB reqs = 16 >>> do you mind testing with the regular request size (16KiB) and 250 >>> requests? I think we can even do 15 bursts in that case. >>> >>>> - USB Speed = Super-Speed >>>> - Function Driver: Mass Storage (w/ ramdisk) >>>> - Test Application: CrystalDiskMark >>>> >>>> Results: >>>> >>>> TXFIFO Depth = 3 max packets >>>> >>>> Test Case | Data Size | AVG tput (in MB/s) >>>> ------------------------------------------- >>>> Sequential|1 GB x | >>>> Read |9 loops | 193.60 >>>> | | 195.86 >>>> | | 184.77 >>>> | | 193.60 >>>> ------------------------------------------- >>>> >>>> TXFIFO Depth = 6 max packets >>>> >>>> Test Case | Data Size | AVG tput (in MB/s) >>>> ------------------------------------------- >>>> Sequential|1 GB x | >>>> Read |9 loops | 287.35 >>>> | | 304.94 >>>> | | 289.64 >>>> | | 293.61 >>> I remember getting close to 400MiB/sec with Intel platforms without >>> resizing FIFOs and I'm sure the FIFO size was set to 2x1024, though my >>> memory could be failing. >>> >>> Then again, I never ran with CrystalDiskMark, I was using my own tool >>> (it's somewhere in github. If you care, I can look up the URL). >>> >>>> We also have internal numbers which have shown similar improvements as >>>> well. Those are over networking/tethering interfaces, so testing IPERF >>>> loopback over TCP/UDP. >>> loopback iperf? That would skip the wire, no? >>> >>>>>> size of 2 and TX threshold of 1, this would really be not beneficial to >>>>>> us, because we can only change the TX threshold to 2 at max, and at >>>>>> least in my observations, once we have to go out to system memory to >>>>>> fetch the next data packet, that latency takes enough time for the >>>>>> controller to end the current burst. >>>>> What I noticed with g_mass_storage is that we can amortize the cost of >>>>> fetching data from memory, with a deeper request queue. Whenever I >>>>> test(ed) g_mass_storage, I was doing so with 250 requests. And that was >>>>> enough to give me very good performance. Never had to poke at TX FIFO >>>>> resizing. Did you try something like this too? >>>>> >>>>> I feel that allocating more requests is a far simpler and more generic >>>>> method that changing FIFO sizes :) >>>>> >>>> I wish I had a USB bus trace handy to show you, which would make it very >>>> clear how the USB bus is currently utilized with TXFIFO size 2 vs 6. So >>>> by increasing the number of USB requests, that will help if there was a >>>> bottleneck at the SW level where the application/function driver >>>> utilizing the DWC3 was submitting data much faster than the HW was >>>> processing them. >>>> >>>> So yes, this method of increasing the # of USB reqs will definitely help >>>> with situations such as HSUSB or in SSUSB when EP bursting isn't used. >>>> The TXFIFO resize comes into play for SSUSB, which utilizes endpoint >>>> bursting. >>> Hmm, that's not what I remember. Perhaps the TRB cache size plays a role >>> here too. I have clear memories of testing this very scenario of >>> bursting (using g_mass_storage at the time) because I was curious about >>> it. Back then, my tests showed no difference in behavior. >>> >>> It could be nice if Heikki could test Intel parts with and without your >>> changes on g_mass_storage with 250 requests. >> Andy, you have a system at hand that has the DWC3 block enabled, >> right? Can you help out here? > I'm not sure if i will have time soon, I Cc'ed to Ferry who has a few > more test cases (I have only one or two) and maybe can help. But I'll > keep this in mind. I just tested on 5.13.0-rc4 on Intel Edison (x86_64). All 5 patches apply. Switching between host/gadget works, no connections dropping, no errors in dmesg. In host mode I connect a smsc9504 eth+4p hub. In gadget mode I have composite device created from configfs with gser / eem / mass_storage / uac2. Tested with iperf3 performance in host (93.6Mbits/sec) and gadget (207Mbits/sec) mode. Compared to v5.10.41 without patches host (93.4Mbits/sec) and gadget (198Mbits/sec). Gadget seems to be a little faster with the patches, but that might also be caused by something else, on v5.10.41 I see the bitrate bouncing between 207 and 199. I saw a mention to test iperf3 to self (loopback). 3.09 Gbits/sec. With v5.10.41 3.07Gbits/sec. Not bad for a 500MHz device. With gnome-disks I did a read access benchmark 35.4MB/s, with v5.10.41 34.7MB/s. This might be limited by Edison's internal eMMC speed (when booting U-Boot reads the kernel with 21.4 MiB/s). >>>> Now with endpoint bursting, if the function notifies the host that >>>> bursting is supported, when the host sends the ACK for the Data Packet, >>>> it should have a NumP value equal to the bMaxBurst reported in the EP >>> Yes and no. Looking back at the history, we used to configure NUMP based >>> on bMaxBurst, but it was changed later in commit >>> 4e99472bc10bda9906526d725ff6d5f27b4ddca1 by yours truly because of a >>> problem reported by John Youn. >>> >>> And now we've come full circle. Because even if I believe more requests >>> are enough for bursting, NUMP is limited by the RxFIFO size. This ends >>> up supporting your claim that we need RxFIFO resizing if we want to >>> squeeze more throughput out of the controller. >>> >>> However, note that this is about RxFIFO size, not TxFIFO size. In fact, >>> looking at Table 8-13 of USB 3.1 r1.0, we read the following about NumP >>> (emphasis is mine): >>> >>> "Number of Packets (NumP). This field is used to indicate the >>> number of Data Packet buffers that the **receiver** can >>> accept. The value in this field shall be less than or equal to >>> the maximum burst size supported by the endpoint as determined >>> by the value in the bMaxBurst field in the Endpoint Companion >>> Descriptor (refer to Section 9.6.7)." >>> >>> So, NumP is for the receiver, not the transmitter. Could you clarify >>> what you mean here? >>> >>> /me keeps reading >>> >>> Hmm, table 8-15 tries to clarify: >>> >>> "Number of Packets (NumP). >>> >>> For an OUT endpoint, refer to Table 8-13 for the description of >>> this field. >>> >>> For an IN endpoint this field is set by the endpoint to the >>> number of packets it can transmit when the host resumes >>> transactions to it. This field shall not have a value greater >>> than the maximum burst size supported by the endpoint as >>> indicated by the value in the bMaxBurst field in the Endpoint >>> Companion Descriptor. Note that the value reported in this field >>> may be treated by the host as informative only." >>> >>> However, if I remember correctly (please verify dwc3 databook), NUMP in >>> DCFG was only for receive buffers. Thin, John, how does dwc3 compute >>> NumP for TX/IN endpoints? Is that computed as a function of DCFG.NUMP or >>> TxFIFO size? >>> >>>> desc. If we have a TXFIFO size of 2, then normally what I have seen is >>>> that after 2 data packets, the device issues a NRDY. So then we'd need >>>> to send an ERDY once data is available within the FIFO, and the same >>>> sequence happens until the USB request is complete. With this constant >>>> NRDY/ERDY handshake going on, you actually see that the bus is under >>>> utilized. When we increase an EP's FIFO size, then you'll see constant >>>> bursts for a request, until the request is done, or if the host runs out >>>> of RXFIFO. (ie no interruption [on the USB protocol level] during USB >>>> request data transfer) >>> Unfortunately I don't have access to a USB sniffer anymore :-( >>> >>>>>>>>> Good points. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Wesley, what kind of testing have you done on this on different devices? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> As mentioned above, these changes are currently present on end user >>>>>>>> devices for the past few years, so its been through a lot of testing :). >>>>>>> all with the same gadget driver. Also, who uses USB on android devices >>>>>>> these days? Most of the data transfer goes via WiFi or Bluetooth, anyway >>>>>>> :-) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I guess only developers are using USB during development to flash dev >>>>>>> images heh. >>>>>>> >>>>>> I used to be a customer facing engineer, so honestly I did see some >>>>>> really interesting and crazy designs. Again, we do have non-Android >>>>>> products that use the same code, and it has been working in there for a >>>>>> few years as well. The TXFIFO sizing really has helped with multimedia >>>>>> use cases, which use isoc endpoints, since esp. in those lower end CPU >>>>>> chips where latencies across the system are much larger, and a missed >>>>>> ISOC interval leads to a pop in your ear. >>>>> This is good background information. Thanks for bringing this >>>>> up. Admitedly, we still have ISOC issues with dwc3. I'm interested in >>>>> knowing if a deeper request queue would also help here. >>>>> >>>>> Remember dwc3 can accomodate 255 requests + link for each endpoint. If >>>>> our gadget driver uses a low number of requests, we're never really >>>>> using the TRB ring in our benefit. >>>>> >>>> We're actually using both a deeper USB request queue + TX fifo resizing. :). >>> okay, great. Let's see what John and/or Thinh respond WRT dwc3 TX Burst >>> behavior. >> -- >> heikki > >
On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 12:27 AM Ferry Toth <fntoth@gmail.com> wrote: > Op 11-06-2021 om 15:21 schreef Andy Shevchenko: > > On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 4:14 PM Heikki Krogerus > > <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 04:00:38PM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote: > >>> Wesley Cheng <wcheng@codeaurora.org> writes: ... > >>>> - USB Speed = Super-Speed > >>>> - Function Driver: Mass Storage (w/ ramdisk) > >>>> - Test Application: CrystalDiskMark > >>>> > >>>> Results: > >>>> > >>>> TXFIFO Depth = 3 max packets > >>>> > >>>> Test Case | Data Size | AVG tput (in MB/s) > >>>> ------------------------------------------- > >>>> Sequential|1 GB x | > >>>> Read |9 loops | 193.60 > >>>> | | 195.86 > >>>> | | 184.77 > >>>> | | 193.60 > >>>> ------------------------------------------- > >>>> > >>>> TXFIFO Depth = 6 max packets > >>>> > >>>> Test Case | Data Size | AVG tput (in MB/s) > >>>> ------------------------------------------- > >>>> Sequential|1 GB x | > >>>> Read |9 loops | 287.35 > >>>> | | 304.94 > >>>> | | 289.64 > >>>> | | 293.61 > >>> I remember getting close to 400MiB/sec with Intel platforms without > >>> resizing FIFOs and I'm sure the FIFO size was set to 2x1024, though my > >>> memory could be failing. > >>> > >>> Then again, I never ran with CrystalDiskMark, I was using my own tool > >>> (it's somewhere in github. If you care, I can look up the URL). > >>> > >>>> We also have internal numbers which have shown similar improvements as > >>>> well. Those are over networking/tethering interfaces, so testing IPERF > >>>> loopback over TCP/UDP. > >>> loopback iperf? That would skip the wire, no? > >>> > >>>>>> size of 2 and TX threshold of 1, this would really be not beneficial to > >>>>>> us, because we can only change the TX threshold to 2 at max, and at > >>>>>> least in my observations, once we have to go out to system memory to > >>>>>> fetch the next data packet, that latency takes enough time for the > >>>>>> controller to end the current burst. > >>>>> What I noticed with g_mass_storage is that we can amortize the cost of > >>>>> fetching data from memory, with a deeper request queue. Whenever I > >>>>> test(ed) g_mass_storage, I was doing so with 250 requests. And that was > >>>>> enough to give me very good performance. Never had to poke at TX FIFO > >>>>> resizing. Did you try something like this too? > >>>>> > >>>>> I feel that allocating more requests is a far simpler and more generic > >>>>> method that changing FIFO sizes :) > >>>>> > >>>> I wish I had a USB bus trace handy to show you, which would make it very > >>>> clear how the USB bus is currently utilized with TXFIFO size 2 vs 6. So > >>>> by increasing the number of USB requests, that will help if there was a > >>>> bottleneck at the SW level where the application/function driver > >>>> utilizing the DWC3 was submitting data much faster than the HW was > >>>> processing them. > >>>> > >>>> So yes, this method of increasing the # of USB reqs will definitely help > >>>> with situations such as HSUSB or in SSUSB when EP bursting isn't used. > >>>> The TXFIFO resize comes into play for SSUSB, which utilizes endpoint > >>>> bursting. > >>> Hmm, that's not what I remember. Perhaps the TRB cache size plays a role > >>> here too. I have clear memories of testing this very scenario of > >>> bursting (using g_mass_storage at the time) because I was curious about > >>> it. Back then, my tests showed no difference in behavior. > >>> > >>> It could be nice if Heikki could test Intel parts with and without your > >>> changes on g_mass_storage with 250 requests. > >> Andy, you have a system at hand that has the DWC3 block enabled, > >> right? Can you help out here? > > I'm not sure if i will have time soon, I Cc'ed to Ferry who has a few > > more test cases (I have only one or two) and maybe can help. But I'll > > keep this in mind. > > I just tested on 5.13.0-rc4 on Intel Edison (x86_64). All 5 patches > apply. Switching between host/gadget works, no connections dropping, no > errors in dmesg. > > In host mode I connect a smsc9504 eth+4p hub. In gadget mode I have > composite device created from configfs with gser / eem / mass_storage / > uac2. > > Tested with iperf3 performance in host (93.6Mbits/sec) and gadget > (207Mbits/sec) mode. Compared to v5.10.41 without patches host > (93.4Mbits/sec) and gadget (198Mbits/sec). > > Gadget seems to be a little faster with the patches, but that might also > be caused by something else, on v5.10.41 I see the bitrate bouncing > between 207 and 199. > > I saw a mention to test iperf3 to self (loopback). 3.09 Gbits/sec. With > v5.10.41 3.07Gbits/sec. Not bad for a 500MHz device. > > With gnome-disks I did a read access benchmark 35.4MB/s, with v5.10.41 > 34.7MB/s. This might be limited by Edison's internal eMMC speed (when > booting U-Boot reads the kernel with 21.4 MiB/s). Ferry, thank you very much for this information and testing efforts! > >>>> Now with endpoint bursting, if the function notifies the host that > >>>> bursting is supported, when the host sends the ACK for the Data Packet, > >>>> it should have a NumP value equal to the bMaxBurst reported in the EP > >>> Yes and no. Looking back at the history, we used to configure NUMP based > >>> on bMaxBurst, but it was changed later in commit > >>> 4e99472bc10bda9906526d725ff6d5f27b4ddca1 by yours truly because of a > >>> problem reported by John Youn. > >>> > >>> And now we've come full circle. Because even if I believe more requests > >>> are enough for bursting, NUMP is limited by the RxFIFO size. This ends > >>> up supporting your claim that we need RxFIFO resizing if we want to > >>> squeeze more throughput out of the controller. > >>> > >>> However, note that this is about RxFIFO size, not TxFIFO size. In fact, > >>> looking at Table 8-13 of USB 3.1 r1.0, we read the following about NumP > >>> (emphasis is mine): > >>> > >>> "Number of Packets (NumP). This field is used to indicate the > >>> number of Data Packet buffers that the **receiver** can > >>> accept. The value in this field shall be less than or equal to > >>> the maximum burst size supported by the endpoint as determined > >>> by the value in the bMaxBurst field in the Endpoint Companion > >>> Descriptor (refer to Section 9.6.7)." > >>> > >>> So, NumP is for the receiver, not the transmitter. Could you clarify > >>> what you mean here? > >>> > >>> /me keeps reading > >>> > >>> Hmm, table 8-15 tries to clarify: > >>> > >>> "Number of Packets (NumP). > >>> > >>> For an OUT endpoint, refer to Table 8-13 for the description of > >>> this field. > >>> > >>> For an IN endpoint this field is set by the endpoint to the > >>> number of packets it can transmit when the host resumes > >>> transactions to it. This field shall not have a value greater > >>> than the maximum burst size supported by the endpoint as > >>> indicated by the value in the bMaxBurst field in the Endpoint > >>> Companion Descriptor. Note that the value reported in this field > >>> may be treated by the host as informative only." > >>> > >>> However, if I remember correctly (please verify dwc3 databook), NUMP in > >>> DCFG was only for receive buffers. Thin, John, how does dwc3 compute > >>> NumP for TX/IN endpoints? Is that computed as a function of DCFG.NUMP or > >>> TxFIFO size? > >>> > >>>> desc. If we have a TXFIFO size of 2, then normally what I have seen is > >>>> that after 2 data packets, the device issues a NRDY. So then we'd need > >>>> to send an ERDY once data is available within the FIFO, and the same > >>>> sequence happens until the USB request is complete. With this constant > >>>> NRDY/ERDY handshake going on, you actually see that the bus is under > >>>> utilized. When we increase an EP's FIFO size, then you'll see constant > >>>> bursts for a request, until the request is done, or if the host runs out > >>>> of RXFIFO. (ie no interruption [on the USB protocol level] during USB > >>>> request data transfer) > >>> Unfortunately I don't have access to a USB sniffer anymore :-( > >>> > >>>>>>>>> Good points. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Wesley, what kind of testing have you done on this on different devices? > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> As mentioned above, these changes are currently present on end user > >>>>>>>> devices for the past few years, so its been through a lot of testing :). > >>>>>>> all with the same gadget driver. Also, who uses USB on android devices > >>>>>>> these days? Most of the data transfer goes via WiFi or Bluetooth, anyway > >>>>>>> :-) > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> I guess only developers are using USB during development to flash dev > >>>>>>> images heh. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> I used to be a customer facing engineer, so honestly I did see some > >>>>>> really interesting and crazy designs. Again, we do have non-Android > >>>>>> products that use the same code, and it has been working in there for a > >>>>>> few years as well. The TXFIFO sizing really has helped with multimedia > >>>>>> use cases, which use isoc endpoints, since esp. in those lower end CPU > >>>>>> chips where latencies across the system are much larger, and a missed > >>>>>> ISOC interval leads to a pop in your ear. > >>>>> This is good background information. Thanks for bringing this > >>>>> up. Admitedly, we still have ISOC issues with dwc3. I'm interested in > >>>>> knowing if a deeper request queue would also help here. > >>>>> > >>>>> Remember dwc3 can accomodate 255 requests + link for each endpoint. If > >>>>> our gadget driver uses a low number of requests, we're never really > >>>>> using the TRB ring in our benefit. > >>>>> > >>>> We're actually using both a deeper USB request queue + TX fifo resizing. :). > >>> okay, great. Let's see what John and/or Thinh respond WRT dwc3 TX Burst > >>> behavior. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
On 6/12/2021 2:27 PM, Ferry Toth wrote: > Hi > > Op 11-06-2021 om 15:21 schreef Andy Shevchenko: >> On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 4:14 PM Heikki Krogerus >> <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> wrote: >>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 04:00:38PM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Wesley Cheng <wcheng@codeaurora.org> writes: >>>>>>>>>>> to be honest, I don't think these should go in (apart from >>>>>>>>>>> the build >>>>>>>>>>> failure) because it's likely to break instantiations of the >>>>>>>>>>> core with >>>>>>>>>>> differing FIFO sizes. Some instantiations even have some >>>>>>>>>>> endpoints with >>>>>>>>>>> dedicated functionality that requires the default FIFO size >>>>>>>>>>> configured >>>>>>>>>>> during coreConsultant instantiation. I know of at OMAP5 and >>>>>>>>>>> some Intel >>>>>>>>>>> implementations which have dedicated endpoints for processor >>>>>>>>>>> tracing. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> With OMAP5, these endpoints are configured at the top of the >>>>>>>>>>> available >>>>>>>>>>> endpoints, which means that if a gadget driver gets loaded >>>>>>>>>>> and takes >>>>>>>>>>> over most of the FIFO space because of this resizing, >>>>>>>>>>> processor tracing >>>>>>>>>>> will have a hard time running. That being said, processor >>>>>>>>>>> tracing isn't >>>>>>>>>>> supported in upstream at this moment. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I agree that the application of this logic may differ between >>>>>>>>> vendors, >>>>>>>>> hence why I wanted to keep this controllable by the DT >>>>>>>>> property, so that >>>>>>>>> for those which do not support this use case can leave it >>>>>>>>> disabled. The >>>>>>>>> logic is there to ensure that for a given USB configuration, >>>>>>>>> for each EP >>>>>>>>> it would have at least 1 TX FIFO. For USB configurations which >>>>>>>>> don't >>>>>>>>> utilize all available IN EPs, it would allow re-allocation of >>>>>>>>> internal >>>>>>>>> memory to EPs which will actually be in use. >>>>>>>> The feature ends up being all-or-nothing, then :-) It sounds >>>>>>>> like we can >>>>>>>> be a little nicer in this regard. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> Don't get me wrong, I think once those features become available >>>>>>> upstream, we can improve the logic. From what I remember when >>>>>>> looking >>>>>> sure, I support that. But I want to make sure the first cut isn't >>>>>> likely >>>>>> to break things left and right :) >>>>>> >>>>>> Hence, let's at least get more testing. >>>>>> >>>>> Sure, I'd hope that the other users of DWC3 will also see some pretty >>>>> big improvements on the TX path with this. >>>> fingers crossed >>>> >>>>>>> at Andy Shevchenko's Github, the Intel tracer downstream changes >>>>>>> were >>>>>>> just to remove physical EP1 and 2 from the DWC3 endpoint list. >>>>>>> If that >>>>>> right, that's the reason why we introduced the endpoint feature >>>>>> flags. The end goal was that the UDC would be able to have custom >>>>>> feature flags paired with ->validate_endpoint() or whatever before >>>>>> allowing it to be enabled. Then the UDC driver could tell UDC core to >>>>>> skip that endpoint on that particular platform without >>>>>> interefering with >>>>>> everything else. >>>>>> >>>>>> Of course, we still need to figure out a way to abstract the >>>>>> different >>>>>> dwc3 instantiations. >>>>>> >>>>>>> was the change which ended up upstream for the Intel tracer then we >>>>>>> could improve the logic to avoid re-sizing those particular EPs. >>>>>> The problem then, just as I mentioned in the previous paragraph, >>>>>> will be >>>>>> coming up with a solution that's elegant and works for all different >>>>>> instantiations of dwc3 (or musb, cdns3, etc). >>>>>> >>>>> Well, at least for the TX FIFO resizing logic, we'd only be needing to >>>>> focus on the DWC3 implementation. >>>>> >>>>> You bring up another good topic that I'll eventually needing to be >>>>> taking a look at, which is a nice way we can handle vendor specific >>>>> endpoints and how they can co-exist with other "normal" endpoints. We >>>>> have a few special HW eps as well, which we try to maintain separately >>>>> in our DWC3 vendor driver, but it isn't the most convenient, or most >>>>> pretty method :). >>>> Awesome, as mentioned, the endpoint feature flags were added exactly to >>>> allow for these vendor-specific features :-) >>>> >>>> I'm more than happy to help testing now that I finally got our SM8150 >>>> Surface Duo device tree accepted by Bjorn ;-) >>>> >>>>>>> However, I'm not sure how the changes would look like in the end, >>>>>>> so I >>>>>>> would like to wait later down the line to include that :). >>>>>> Fair enough, I agree. Can we get some more testing of $subject, >>>>>> though? >>>>>> Did you test $subject with upstream too? Which gadget drivers did you >>>>>> use? How did you test >>>>>> >>>>> The results that I included in the cover page was tested with the pure >>>>> upstream kernel on our device. Below was using the ConfigFS gadget >>>>> w/ a >>>>> mass storage only composition. >>>>> >>>>> Test Parameters: >>>>> - Platform: Qualcomm SM8150 >>>>> - bMaxBurst = 6 >>>>> - USB req size = 256kB >>>>> - Num of USB reqs = 16 >>>> do you mind testing with the regular request size (16KiB) and 250 >>>> requests? I think we can even do 15 bursts in that case. >>>> >>>>> - USB Speed = Super-Speed >>>>> - Function Driver: Mass Storage (w/ ramdisk) >>>>> - Test Application: CrystalDiskMark >>>>> >>>>> Results: >>>>> >>>>> TXFIFO Depth = 3 max packets >>>>> >>>>> Test Case | Data Size | AVG tput (in MB/s) >>>>> ------------------------------------------- >>>>> Sequential|1 GB x | >>>>> Read |9 loops | 193.60 >>>>> | | 195.86 >>>>> | | 184.77 >>>>> | | 193.60 >>>>> ------------------------------------------- >>>>> >>>>> TXFIFO Depth = 6 max packets >>>>> >>>>> Test Case | Data Size | AVG tput (in MB/s) >>>>> ------------------------------------------- >>>>> Sequential|1 GB x | >>>>> Read |9 loops | 287.35 >>>>> | | 304.94 >>>>> | | 289.64 >>>>> | | 293.61 >>>> I remember getting close to 400MiB/sec with Intel platforms without >>>> resizing FIFOs and I'm sure the FIFO size was set to 2x1024, though my >>>> memory could be failing. >>>> >>>> Then again, I never ran with CrystalDiskMark, I was using my own tool >>>> (it's somewhere in github. If you care, I can look up the URL). >>>> >>>>> We also have internal numbers which have shown similar improvements as >>>>> well. Those are over networking/tethering interfaces, so testing >>>>> IPERF >>>>> loopback over TCP/UDP. >>>> loopback iperf? That would skip the wire, no? >>>> >>>>>>> size of 2 and TX threshold of 1, this would really be not >>>>>>> beneficial to >>>>>>> us, because we can only change the TX threshold to 2 at max, and at >>>>>>> least in my observations, once we have to go out to system memory to >>>>>>> fetch the next data packet, that latency takes enough time for the >>>>>>> controller to end the current burst. >>>>>> What I noticed with g_mass_storage is that we can amortize the >>>>>> cost of >>>>>> fetching data from memory, with a deeper request queue. Whenever I >>>>>> test(ed) g_mass_storage, I was doing so with 250 requests. And >>>>>> that was >>>>>> enough to give me very good performance. Never had to poke at TX FIFO >>>>>> resizing. Did you try something like this too? >>>>>> >>>>>> I feel that allocating more requests is a far simpler and more >>>>>> generic >>>>>> method that changing FIFO sizes :) >>>>>> >>>>> I wish I had a USB bus trace handy to show you, which would make it >>>>> very >>>>> clear how the USB bus is currently utilized with TXFIFO size 2 vs >>>>> 6. So >>>>> by increasing the number of USB requests, that will help if there >>>>> was a >>>>> bottleneck at the SW level where the application/function driver >>>>> utilizing the DWC3 was submitting data much faster than the HW was >>>>> processing them. >>>>> >>>>> So yes, this method of increasing the # of USB reqs will definitely >>>>> help >>>>> with situations such as HSUSB or in SSUSB when EP bursting isn't used. >>>>> The TXFIFO resize comes into play for SSUSB, which utilizes endpoint >>>>> bursting. >>>> Hmm, that's not what I remember. Perhaps the TRB cache size plays a >>>> role >>>> here too. I have clear memories of testing this very scenario of >>>> bursting (using g_mass_storage at the time) because I was curious about >>>> it. Back then, my tests showed no difference in behavior. >>>> >>>> It could be nice if Heikki could test Intel parts with and without your >>>> changes on g_mass_storage with 250 requests. >>> Andy, you have a system at hand that has the DWC3 block enabled, >>> right? Can you help out here? >> I'm not sure if i will have time soon, I Cc'ed to Ferry who has a few >> more test cases (I have only one or two) and maybe can help. But I'll >> keep this in mind. > > I just tested on 5.13.0-rc4 on Intel Edison (x86_64). All 5 patches > apply. Switching between host/gadget works, no connections dropping, no > errors in dmesg. > > In host mode I connect a smsc9504 eth+4p hub. In gadget mode I have > composite device created from configfs with gser / eem / mass_storage / > uac2. > > Tested with iperf3 performance in host (93.6Mbits/sec) and gadget > (207Mbits/sec) mode. Compared to v5.10.41 without patches host > (93.4Mbits/sec) and gadget (198Mbits/sec). > > Gadget seems to be a little faster with the patches, but that might also > be caused by something else, on v5.10.41 I see the bitrate bouncing > between 207 and 199. > > I saw a mention to test iperf3 to self (loopback). 3.09 Gbits/sec. With > v5.10.41 3.07Gbits/sec. Not bad for a 500MHz device. > > With gnome-disks I did a read access benchmark 35.4MB/s, with v5.10.41 > 34.7MB/s. This might be limited by Edison's internal eMMC speed (when > booting U-Boot reads the kernel with 21.4 MiB/s). > Hi Ferry, Thanks for the testing. Just to double check, did you also enable the property, which enabled the TXFIFO resize feature on the platform? For example, for the QCOM SM8150 platform, we're adding the following to our device tree node: tx-fifo-resize If not, then your results at least confirms that w/o the property present, the changes won't break anything :). Thanks again for the initial testing! Thanks Wesley Cheng >>>>> Now with endpoint bursting, if the function notifies the host that >>>>> bursting is supported, when the host sends the ACK for the Data >>>>> Packet, >>>>> it should have a NumP value equal to the bMaxBurst reported in the EP >>>> Yes and no. Looking back at the history, we used to configure NUMP >>>> based >>>> on bMaxBurst, but it was changed later in commit >>>> 4e99472bc10bda9906526d725ff6d5f27b4ddca1 by yours truly because of a >>>> problem reported by John Youn. >>>> >>>> And now we've come full circle. Because even if I believe more requests >>>> are enough for bursting, NUMP is limited by the RxFIFO size. This ends >>>> up supporting your claim that we need RxFIFO resizing if we want to >>>> squeeze more throughput out of the controller. >>>> >>>> However, note that this is about RxFIFO size, not TxFIFO size. In fact, >>>> looking at Table 8-13 of USB 3.1 r1.0, we read the following about NumP >>>> (emphasis is mine): >>>> >>>> "Number of Packets (NumP). This field is used to indicate the >>>> number of Data Packet buffers that the **receiver** can >>>> accept. The value in this field shall be less than or equal to >>>> the maximum burst size supported by the endpoint as determined >>>> by the value in the bMaxBurst field in the Endpoint Companion >>>> Descriptor (refer to Section 9.6.7)." >>>> >>>> So, NumP is for the receiver, not the transmitter. Could you clarify >>>> what you mean here? >>>> >>>> /me keeps reading >>>> >>>> Hmm, table 8-15 tries to clarify: >>>> >>>> "Number of Packets (NumP). >>>> >>>> For an OUT endpoint, refer to Table 8-13 for the description of >>>> this field. >>>> >>>> For an IN endpoint this field is set by the endpoint to the >>>> number of packets it can transmit when the host resumes >>>> transactions to it. This field shall not have a value greater >>>> than the maximum burst size supported by the endpoint as >>>> indicated by the value in the bMaxBurst field in the Endpoint >>>> Companion Descriptor. Note that the value reported in this field >>>> may be treated by the host as informative only." >>>> >>>> However, if I remember correctly (please verify dwc3 databook), NUMP in >>>> DCFG was only for receive buffers. Thin, John, how does dwc3 compute >>>> NumP for TX/IN endpoints? Is that computed as a function of >>>> DCFG.NUMP or >>>> TxFIFO size? >>>> >>>>> desc. If we have a TXFIFO size of 2, then normally what I have >>>>> seen is >>>>> that after 2 data packets, the device issues a NRDY. So then we'd >>>>> need >>>>> to send an ERDY once data is available within the FIFO, and the same >>>>> sequence happens until the USB request is complete. With this >>>>> constant >>>>> NRDY/ERDY handshake going on, you actually see that the bus is under >>>>> utilized. When we increase an EP's FIFO size, then you'll see >>>>> constant >>>>> bursts for a request, until the request is done, or if the host >>>>> runs out >>>>> of RXFIFO. (ie no interruption [on the USB protocol level] during USB >>>>> request data transfer) >>>> Unfortunately I don't have access to a USB sniffer anymore :-( >>>> >>>>>>>>>> Good points. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Wesley, what kind of testing have you done on this on >>>>>>>>>> different devices? >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> As mentioned above, these changes are currently present on end >>>>>>>>> user >>>>>>>>> devices for the past few years, so its been through a lot of >>>>>>>>> testing :). >>>>>>>> all with the same gadget driver. Also, who uses USB on android >>>>>>>> devices >>>>>>>> these days? Most of the data transfer goes via WiFi or >>>>>>>> Bluetooth, anyway >>>>>>>> :-) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I guess only developers are using USB during development to >>>>>>>> flash dev >>>>>>>> images heh. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> I used to be a customer facing engineer, so honestly I did see some >>>>>>> really interesting and crazy designs. Again, we do have non-Android >>>>>>> products that use the same code, and it has been working in there >>>>>>> for a >>>>>>> few years as well. The TXFIFO sizing really has helped with >>>>>>> multimedia >>>>>>> use cases, which use isoc endpoints, since esp. in those lower >>>>>>> end CPU >>>>>>> chips where latencies across the system are much larger, and a >>>>>>> missed >>>>>>> ISOC interval leads to a pop in your ear. >>>>>> This is good background information. Thanks for bringing this >>>>>> up. Admitedly, we still have ISOC issues with dwc3. I'm interested in >>>>>> knowing if a deeper request queue would also help here. >>>>>> >>>>>> Remember dwc3 can accomodate 255 requests + link for each >>>>>> endpoint. If >>>>>> our gadget driver uses a low number of requests, we're never really >>>>>> using the TRB ring in our benefit. >>>>>> >>>>> We're actually using both a deeper USB request queue + TX fifo >>>>> resizing. :). >>>> okay, great. Let's see what John and/or Thinh respond WRT dwc3 TX Burst >>>> behavior. >>> -- >>> heikki >> >>
Op 14-06-2021 om 20:58 schreef Wesley Cheng: > > On 6/12/2021 2:27 PM, Ferry Toth wrote: >> Hi >> >> Op 11-06-2021 om 15:21 schreef Andy Shevchenko: >>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 4:14 PM Heikki Krogerus >>> <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> wrote: >>>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 04:00:38PM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> Wesley Cheng <wcheng@codeaurora.org> writes: >>>>>>>>>>>> to be honest, I don't think these should go in (apart from >>>>>>>>>>>> the build >>>>>>>>>>>> failure) because it's likely to break instantiations of the >>>>>>>>>>>> core with >>>>>>>>>>>> differing FIFO sizes. Some instantiations even have some >>>>>>>>>>>> endpoints with >>>>>>>>>>>> dedicated functionality that requires the default FIFO size >>>>>>>>>>>> configured >>>>>>>>>>>> during coreConsultant instantiation. I know of at OMAP5 and >>>>>>>>>>>> some Intel >>>>>>>>>>>> implementations which have dedicated endpoints for processor >>>>>>>>>>>> tracing. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> With OMAP5, these endpoints are configured at the top of the >>>>>>>>>>>> available >>>>>>>>>>>> endpoints, which means that if a gadget driver gets loaded >>>>>>>>>>>> and takes >>>>>>>>>>>> over most of the FIFO space because of this resizing, >>>>>>>>>>>> processor tracing >>>>>>>>>>>> will have a hard time running. That being said, processor >>>>>>>>>>>> tracing isn't >>>>>>>>>>>> supported in upstream at this moment. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I agree that the application of this logic may differ between >>>>>>>>>> vendors, >>>>>>>>>> hence why I wanted to keep this controllable by the DT >>>>>>>>>> property, so that >>>>>>>>>> for those which do not support this use case can leave it >>>>>>>>>> disabled. The >>>>>>>>>> logic is there to ensure that for a given USB configuration, >>>>>>>>>> for each EP >>>>>>>>>> it would have at least 1 TX FIFO. For USB configurations which >>>>>>>>>> don't >>>>>>>>>> utilize all available IN EPs, it would allow re-allocation of >>>>>>>>>> internal >>>>>>>>>> memory to EPs which will actually be in use. >>>>>>>>> The feature ends up being all-or-nothing, then :-) It sounds >>>>>>>>> like we can >>>>>>>>> be a little nicer in this regard. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Don't get me wrong, I think once those features become available >>>>>>>> upstream, we can improve the logic. From what I remember when >>>>>>>> looking >>>>>>> sure, I support that. But I want to make sure the first cut isn't >>>>>>> likely >>>>>>> to break things left and right :) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hence, let's at least get more testing. >>>>>>> >>>>>> Sure, I'd hope that the other users of DWC3 will also see some pretty >>>>>> big improvements on the TX path with this. >>>>> fingers crossed >>>>> >>>>>>>> at Andy Shevchenko's Github, the Intel tracer downstream changes >>>>>>>> were >>>>>>>> just to remove physical EP1 and 2 from the DWC3 endpoint list. >>>>>>>> If that >>>>>>> right, that's the reason why we introduced the endpoint feature >>>>>>> flags. The end goal was that the UDC would be able to have custom >>>>>>> feature flags paired with ->validate_endpoint() or whatever before >>>>>>> allowing it to be enabled. Then the UDC driver could tell UDC core to >>>>>>> skip that endpoint on that particular platform without >>>>>>> interefering with >>>>>>> everything else. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Of course, we still need to figure out a way to abstract the >>>>>>> different >>>>>>> dwc3 instantiations. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> was the change which ended up upstream for the Intel tracer then we >>>>>>>> could improve the logic to avoid re-sizing those particular EPs. >>>>>>> The problem then, just as I mentioned in the previous paragraph, >>>>>>> will be >>>>>>> coming up with a solution that's elegant and works for all different >>>>>>> instantiations of dwc3 (or musb, cdns3, etc). >>>>>>> >>>>>> Well, at least for the TX FIFO resizing logic, we'd only be needing to >>>>>> focus on the DWC3 implementation. >>>>>> >>>>>> You bring up another good topic that I'll eventually needing to be >>>>>> taking a look at, which is a nice way we can handle vendor specific >>>>>> endpoints and how they can co-exist with other "normal" endpoints. We >>>>>> have a few special HW eps as well, which we try to maintain separately >>>>>> in our DWC3 vendor driver, but it isn't the most convenient, or most >>>>>> pretty method :). >>>>> Awesome, as mentioned, the endpoint feature flags were added exactly to >>>>> allow for these vendor-specific features :-) >>>>> >>>>> I'm more than happy to help testing now that I finally got our SM8150 >>>>> Surface Duo device tree accepted by Bjorn ;-) >>>>> >>>>>>>> However, I'm not sure how the changes would look like in the end, >>>>>>>> so I >>>>>>>> would like to wait later down the line to include that :). >>>>>>> Fair enough, I agree. Can we get some more testing of $subject, >>>>>>> though? >>>>>>> Did you test $subject with upstream too? Which gadget drivers did you >>>>>>> use? How did you test >>>>>>> >>>>>> The results that I included in the cover page was tested with the pure >>>>>> upstream kernel on our device. Below was using the ConfigFS gadget >>>>>> w/ a >>>>>> mass storage only composition. >>>>>> >>>>>> Test Parameters: >>>>>> - Platform: Qualcomm SM8150 >>>>>> - bMaxBurst = 6 >>>>>> - USB req size = 256kB >>>>>> - Num of USB reqs = 16 >>>>> do you mind testing with the regular request size (16KiB) and 250 >>>>> requests? I think we can even do 15 bursts in that case. >>>>> >>>>>> - USB Speed = Super-Speed >>>>>> - Function Driver: Mass Storage (w/ ramdisk) >>>>>> - Test Application: CrystalDiskMark >>>>>> >>>>>> Results: >>>>>> >>>>>> TXFIFO Depth = 3 max packets >>>>>> >>>>>> Test Case | Data Size | AVG tput (in MB/s) >>>>>> ------------------------------------------- >>>>>> Sequential|1 GB x | >>>>>> Read |9 loops | 193.60 >>>>>> | | 195.86 >>>>>> | | 184.77 >>>>>> | | 193.60 >>>>>> ------------------------------------------- >>>>>> >>>>>> TXFIFO Depth = 6 max packets >>>>>> >>>>>> Test Case | Data Size | AVG tput (in MB/s) >>>>>> ------------------------------------------- >>>>>> Sequential|1 GB x | >>>>>> Read |9 loops | 287.35 >>>>>> | | 304.94 >>>>>> | | 289.64 >>>>>> | | 293.61 >>>>> I remember getting close to 400MiB/sec with Intel platforms without >>>>> resizing FIFOs and I'm sure the FIFO size was set to 2x1024, though my >>>>> memory could be failing. >>>>> >>>>> Then again, I never ran with CrystalDiskMark, I was using my own tool >>>>> (it's somewhere in github. If you care, I can look up the URL). >>>>> >>>>>> We also have internal numbers which have shown similar improvements as >>>>>> well. Those are over networking/tethering interfaces, so testing >>>>>> IPERF >>>>>> loopback over TCP/UDP. >>>>> loopback iperf? That would skip the wire, no? >>>>> >>>>>>>> size of 2 and TX threshold of 1, this would really be not >>>>>>>> beneficial to >>>>>>>> us, because we can only change the TX threshold to 2 at max, and at >>>>>>>> least in my observations, once we have to go out to system memory to >>>>>>>> fetch the next data packet, that latency takes enough time for the >>>>>>>> controller to end the current burst. >>>>>>> What I noticed with g_mass_storage is that we can amortize the >>>>>>> cost of >>>>>>> fetching data from memory, with a deeper request queue. Whenever I >>>>>>> test(ed) g_mass_storage, I was doing so with 250 requests. And >>>>>>> that was >>>>>>> enough to give me very good performance. Never had to poke at TX FIFO >>>>>>> resizing. Did you try something like this too? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I feel that allocating more requests is a far simpler and more >>>>>>> generic >>>>>>> method that changing FIFO sizes :) >>>>>>> >>>>>> I wish I had a USB bus trace handy to show you, which would make it >>>>>> very >>>>>> clear how the USB bus is currently utilized with TXFIFO size 2 vs >>>>>> 6. So >>>>>> by increasing the number of USB requests, that will help if there >>>>>> was a >>>>>> bottleneck at the SW level where the application/function driver >>>>>> utilizing the DWC3 was submitting data much faster than the HW was >>>>>> processing them. >>>>>> >>>>>> So yes, this method of increasing the # of USB reqs will definitely >>>>>> help >>>>>> with situations such as HSUSB or in SSUSB when EP bursting isn't used. >>>>>> The TXFIFO resize comes into play for SSUSB, which utilizes endpoint >>>>>> bursting. >>>>> Hmm, that's not what I remember. Perhaps the TRB cache size plays a >>>>> role >>>>> here too. I have clear memories of testing this very scenario of >>>>> bursting (using g_mass_storage at the time) because I was curious about >>>>> it. Back then, my tests showed no difference in behavior. >>>>> >>>>> It could be nice if Heikki could test Intel parts with and without your >>>>> changes on g_mass_storage with 250 requests. >>>> Andy, you have a system at hand that has the DWC3 block enabled, >>>> right? Can you help out here? >>> I'm not sure if i will have time soon, I Cc'ed to Ferry who has a few >>> more test cases (I have only one or two) and maybe can help. But I'll >>> keep this in mind. >> I just tested on 5.13.0-rc4 on Intel Edison (x86_64). All 5 patches >> apply. Switching between host/gadget works, no connections dropping, no >> errors in dmesg. >> >> In host mode I connect a smsc9504 eth+4p hub. In gadget mode I have >> composite device created from configfs with gser / eem / mass_storage / >> uac2. >> >> Tested with iperf3 performance in host (93.6Mbits/sec) and gadget >> (207Mbits/sec) mode. Compared to v5.10.41 without patches host >> (93.4Mbits/sec) and gadget (198Mbits/sec). >> >> Gadget seems to be a little faster with the patches, but that might also >> be caused by something else, on v5.10.41 I see the bitrate bouncing >> between 207 and 199. >> >> I saw a mention to test iperf3 to self (loopback). 3.09 Gbits/sec. With >> v5.10.41 3.07Gbits/sec. Not bad for a 500MHz device. >> >> With gnome-disks I did a read access benchmark 35.4MB/s, with v5.10.41 >> 34.7MB/s. This might be limited by Edison's internal eMMC speed (when >> booting U-Boot reads the kernel with 21.4 MiB/s). >> > Hi Ferry, > > Thanks for the testing. Just to double check, did you also enable the > property, which enabled the TXFIFO resize feature on the platform? For > example, for the QCOM SM8150 platform, we're adding the following to our > device tree node: > > tx-fifo-resize > > If not, then your results at least confirms that w/o the property > present, the changes won't break anything :). Thanks again for the > initial testing! No I didn't. Afaik we don't have a devicetree property to set. But I'd be happy to test that as well. But where to set the property? dwc3_pci_mrfld_properties[] in dwc3-pci? > Thanks > Wesley Cheng > >>>>>> Now with endpoint bursting, if the function notifies the host that >>>>>> bursting is supported, when the host sends the ACK for the Data >>>>>> Packet, >>>>>> it should have a NumP value equal to the bMaxBurst reported in the EP >>>>> Yes and no. Looking back at the history, we used to configure NUMP >>>>> based >>>>> on bMaxBurst, but it was changed later in commit >>>>> 4e99472bc10bda9906526d725ff6d5f27b4ddca1 by yours truly because of a >>>>> problem reported by John Youn. >>>>> >>>>> And now we've come full circle. Because even if I believe more requests >>>>> are enough for bursting, NUMP is limited by the RxFIFO size. This ends >>>>> up supporting your claim that we need RxFIFO resizing if we want to >>>>> squeeze more throughput out of the controller. >>>>> >>>>> However, note that this is about RxFIFO size, not TxFIFO size. In fact, >>>>> looking at Table 8-13 of USB 3.1 r1.0, we read the following about NumP >>>>> (emphasis is mine): >>>>> >>>>> "Number of Packets (NumP). This field is used to indicate the >>>>> number of Data Packet buffers that the **receiver** can >>>>> accept. The value in this field shall be less than or equal to >>>>> the maximum burst size supported by the endpoint as determined >>>>> by the value in the bMaxBurst field in the Endpoint Companion >>>>> Descriptor (refer to Section 9.6.7)." >>>>> >>>>> So, NumP is for the receiver, not the transmitter. Could you clarify >>>>> what you mean here? >>>>> >>>>> /me keeps reading >>>>> >>>>> Hmm, table 8-15 tries to clarify: >>>>> >>>>> "Number of Packets (NumP). >>>>> >>>>> For an OUT endpoint, refer to Table 8-13 for the description of >>>>> this field. >>>>> >>>>> For an IN endpoint this field is set by the endpoint to the >>>>> number of packets it can transmit when the host resumes >>>>> transactions to it. This field shall not have a value greater >>>>> than the maximum burst size supported by the endpoint as >>>>> indicated by the value in the bMaxBurst field in the Endpoint >>>>> Companion Descriptor. Note that the value reported in this field >>>>> may be treated by the host as informative only." >>>>> >>>>> However, if I remember correctly (please verify dwc3 databook), NUMP in >>>>> DCFG was only for receive buffers. Thin, John, how does dwc3 compute >>>>> NumP for TX/IN endpoints? Is that computed as a function of >>>>> DCFG.NUMP or >>>>> TxFIFO size? >>>>> >>>>>> desc. If we have a TXFIFO size of 2, then normally what I have >>>>>> seen is >>>>>> that after 2 data packets, the device issues a NRDY. So then we'd >>>>>> need >>>>>> to send an ERDY once data is available within the FIFO, and the same >>>>>> sequence happens until the USB request is complete. With this >>>>>> constant >>>>>> NRDY/ERDY handshake going on, you actually see that the bus is under >>>>>> utilized. When we increase an EP's FIFO size, then you'll see >>>>>> constant >>>>>> bursts for a request, until the request is done, or if the host >>>>>> runs out >>>>>> of RXFIFO. (ie no interruption [on the USB protocol level] during USB >>>>>> request data transfer) >>>>> Unfortunately I don't have access to a USB sniffer anymore :-( >>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Good points. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Wesley, what kind of testing have you done on this on >>>>>>>>>>> different devices? >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> As mentioned above, these changes are currently present on end >>>>>>>>>> user >>>>>>>>>> devices for the past few years, so its been through a lot of >>>>>>>>>> testing :). >>>>>>>>> all with the same gadget driver. Also, who uses USB on android >>>>>>>>> devices >>>>>>>>> these days? Most of the data transfer goes via WiFi or >>>>>>>>> Bluetooth, anyway >>>>>>>>> :-) >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I guess only developers are using USB during development to >>>>>>>>> flash dev >>>>>>>>> images heh. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I used to be a customer facing engineer, so honestly I did see some >>>>>>>> really interesting and crazy designs. Again, we do have non-Android >>>>>>>> products that use the same code, and it has been working in there >>>>>>>> for a >>>>>>>> few years as well. The TXFIFO sizing really has helped with >>>>>>>> multimedia >>>>>>>> use cases, which use isoc endpoints, since esp. in those lower >>>>>>>> end CPU >>>>>>>> chips where latencies across the system are much larger, and a >>>>>>>> missed >>>>>>>> ISOC interval leads to a pop in your ear. >>>>>>> This is good background information. Thanks for bringing this >>>>>>> up. Admitedly, we still have ISOC issues with dwc3. I'm interested in >>>>>>> knowing if a deeper request queue would also help here. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Remember dwc3 can accomodate 255 requests + link for each >>>>>>> endpoint. If >>>>>>> our gadget driver uses a low number of requests, we're never really >>>>>>> using the TRB ring in our benefit. >>>>>>> >>>>>> We're actually using both a deeper USB request queue + TX fifo >>>>>> resizing. :). >>>>> okay, great. Let's see what John and/or Thinh respond WRT dwc3 TX Burst >>>>> behavior. >>>> -- >>>> heikki >>>
Hi Op 15-06-2021 om 06:22 schreef Wesley Cheng: > > On 6/14/2021 12:30 PM, Ferry Toth wrote: >> Op 14-06-2021 om 20:58 schreef Wesley Cheng: >>> On 6/12/2021 2:27 PM, Ferry Toth wrote: >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> Op 11-06-2021 om 15:21 schreef Andy Shevchenko: >>>>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 4:14 PM Heikki Krogerus >>>>> <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> wrote: >>>>>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 04:00:38PM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote: >>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Wesley Cheng <wcheng@codeaurora.org> writes: >>>>>>>>>>>>>> to be honest, I don't think these should go in (apart from >>>>>>>>>>>>>> the build >>>>>>>>>>>>>> failure) because it's likely to break instantiations of the >>>>>>>>>>>>>> core with >>>>>>>>>>>>>> differing FIFO sizes. Some instantiations even have some >>>>>>>>>>>>>> endpoints with >>>>>>>>>>>>>> dedicated functionality that requires the default FIFO size >>>>>>>>>>>>>> configured >>>>>>>>>>>>>> during coreConsultant instantiation. I know of at OMAP5 and >>>>>>>>>>>>>> some Intel >>>>>>>>>>>>>> implementations which have dedicated endpoints for processor >>>>>>>>>>>>>> tracing. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> With OMAP5, these endpoints are configured at the top of the >>>>>>>>>>>>>> available >>>>>>>>>>>>>> endpoints, which means that if a gadget driver gets loaded >>>>>>>>>>>>>> and takes >>>>>>>>>>>>>> over most of the FIFO space because of this resizing, >>>>>>>>>>>>>> processor tracing >>>>>>>>>>>>>> will have a hard time running. That being said, processor >>>>>>>>>>>>>> tracing isn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>> supported in upstream at this moment. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> I agree that the application of this logic may differ between >>>>>>>>>>>> vendors, >>>>>>>>>>>> hence why I wanted to keep this controllable by the DT >>>>>>>>>>>> property, so that >>>>>>>>>>>> for those which do not support this use case can leave it >>>>>>>>>>>> disabled. The >>>>>>>>>>>> logic is there to ensure that for a given USB configuration, >>>>>>>>>>>> for each EP >>>>>>>>>>>> it would have at least 1 TX FIFO. For USB configurations which >>>>>>>>>>>> don't >>>>>>>>>>>> utilize all available IN EPs, it would allow re-allocation of >>>>>>>>>>>> internal >>>>>>>>>>>> memory to EPs which will actually be in use. >>>>>>>>>>> The feature ends up being all-or-nothing, then :-) It sounds >>>>>>>>>>> like we can >>>>>>>>>>> be a little nicer in this regard. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Don't get me wrong, I think once those features become available >>>>>>>>>> upstream, we can improve the logic. From what I remember when >>>>>>>>>> looking >>>>>>>>> sure, I support that. But I want to make sure the first cut isn't >>>>>>>>> likely >>>>>>>>> to break things left and right :) >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Hence, let's at least get more testing. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Sure, I'd hope that the other users of DWC3 will also see some >>>>>>>> pretty >>>>>>>> big improvements on the TX path with this. >>>>>>> fingers crossed >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> at Andy Shevchenko's Github, the Intel tracer downstream changes >>>>>>>>>> were >>>>>>>>>> just to remove physical EP1 and 2 from the DWC3 endpoint list. >>>>>>>>>> If that >>>>>>>>> right, that's the reason why we introduced the endpoint feature >>>>>>>>> flags. The end goal was that the UDC would be able to have custom >>>>>>>>> feature flags paired with ->validate_endpoint() or whatever before >>>>>>>>> allowing it to be enabled. Then the UDC driver could tell UDC >>>>>>>>> core to >>>>>>>>> skip that endpoint on that particular platform without >>>>>>>>> interefering with >>>>>>>>> everything else. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Of course, we still need to figure out a way to abstract the >>>>>>>>> different >>>>>>>>> dwc3 instantiations. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> was the change which ended up upstream for the Intel tracer >>>>>>>>>> then we >>>>>>>>>> could improve the logic to avoid re-sizing those particular EPs. >>>>>>>>> The problem then, just as I mentioned in the previous paragraph, >>>>>>>>> will be >>>>>>>>> coming up with a solution that's elegant and works for all >>>>>>>>> different >>>>>>>>> instantiations of dwc3 (or musb, cdns3, etc). >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Well, at least for the TX FIFO resizing logic, we'd only be >>>>>>>> needing to >>>>>>>> focus on the DWC3 implementation. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> You bring up another good topic that I'll eventually needing to be >>>>>>>> taking a look at, which is a nice way we can handle vendor specific >>>>>>>> endpoints and how they can co-exist with other "normal" >>>>>>>> endpoints. We >>>>>>>> have a few special HW eps as well, which we try to maintain >>>>>>>> separately >>>>>>>> in our DWC3 vendor driver, but it isn't the most convenient, or most >>>>>>>> pretty method :). >>>>>>> Awesome, as mentioned, the endpoint feature flags were added >>>>>>> exactly to >>>>>>> allow for these vendor-specific features :-) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm more than happy to help testing now that I finally got our SM8150 >>>>>>> Surface Duo device tree accepted by Bjorn ;-) >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> However, I'm not sure how the changes would look like in the end, >>>>>>>>>> so I >>>>>>>>>> would like to wait later down the line to include that :). >>>>>>>>> Fair enough, I agree. Can we get some more testing of $subject, >>>>>>>>> though? >>>>>>>>> Did you test $subject with upstream too? Which gadget drivers >>>>>>>>> did you >>>>>>>>> use? How did you test >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> The results that I included in the cover page was tested with the >>>>>>>> pure >>>>>>>> upstream kernel on our device. Below was using the ConfigFS gadget >>>>>>>> w/ a >>>>>>>> mass storage only composition. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Test Parameters: >>>>>>>> - Platform: Qualcomm SM8150 >>>>>>>> - bMaxBurst = 6 >>>>>>>> - USB req size = 256kB >>>>>>>> - Num of USB reqs = 16 >>>>>>> do you mind testing with the regular request size (16KiB) and 250 >>>>>>> requests? I think we can even do 15 bursts in that case. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> - USB Speed = Super-Speed >>>>>>>> - Function Driver: Mass Storage (w/ ramdisk) >>>>>>>> - Test Application: CrystalDiskMark >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Results: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> TXFIFO Depth = 3 max packets >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Test Case | Data Size | AVG tput (in MB/s) >>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------- >>>>>>>> Sequential|1 GB x | >>>>>>>> Read |9 loops | 193.60 >>>>>>>> | | 195.86 >>>>>>>> | | 184.77 >>>>>>>> | | 193.60 >>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------- >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> TXFIFO Depth = 6 max packets >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Test Case | Data Size | AVG tput (in MB/s) >>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------- >>>>>>>> Sequential|1 GB x | >>>>>>>> Read |9 loops | 287.35 >>>>>>>> | | 304.94 >>>>>>>> | | 289.64 >>>>>>>> | | 293.61 >>>>>>> I remember getting close to 400MiB/sec with Intel platforms without >>>>>>> resizing FIFOs and I'm sure the FIFO size was set to 2x1024, >>>>>>> though my >>>>>>> memory could be failing. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Then again, I never ran with CrystalDiskMark, I was using my own tool >>>>>>> (it's somewhere in github. If you care, I can look up the URL). >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> We also have internal numbers which have shown similar >>>>>>>> improvements as >>>>>>>> well. Those are over networking/tethering interfaces, so testing >>>>>>>> IPERF >>>>>>>> loopback over TCP/UDP. >>>>>>> loopback iperf? That would skip the wire, no? >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> size of 2 and TX threshold of 1, this would really be not >>>>>>>>>> beneficial to >>>>>>>>>> us, because we can only change the TX threshold to 2 at max, >>>>>>>>>> and at >>>>>>>>>> least in my observations, once we have to go out to system >>>>>>>>>> memory to >>>>>>>>>> fetch the next data packet, that latency takes enough time for the >>>>>>>>>> controller to end the current burst. >>>>>>>>> What I noticed with g_mass_storage is that we can amortize the >>>>>>>>> cost of >>>>>>>>> fetching data from memory, with a deeper request queue. Whenever I >>>>>>>>> test(ed) g_mass_storage, I was doing so with 250 requests. And >>>>>>>>> that was >>>>>>>>> enough to give me very good performance. Never had to poke at TX >>>>>>>>> FIFO >>>>>>>>> resizing. Did you try something like this too? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I feel that allocating more requests is a far simpler and more >>>>>>>>> generic >>>>>>>>> method that changing FIFO sizes :) >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I wish I had a USB bus trace handy to show you, which would make it >>>>>>>> very >>>>>>>> clear how the USB bus is currently utilized with TXFIFO size 2 vs >>>>>>>> 6. So >>>>>>>> by increasing the number of USB requests, that will help if there >>>>>>>> was a >>>>>>>> bottleneck at the SW level where the application/function driver >>>>>>>> utilizing the DWC3 was submitting data much faster than the HW was >>>>>>>> processing them. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> So yes, this method of increasing the # of USB reqs will definitely >>>>>>>> help >>>>>>>> with situations such as HSUSB or in SSUSB when EP bursting isn't >>>>>>>> used. >>>>>>>> The TXFIFO resize comes into play for SSUSB, which utilizes endpoint >>>>>>>> bursting. >>>>>>> Hmm, that's not what I remember. Perhaps the TRB cache size plays a >>>>>>> role >>>>>>> here too. I have clear memories of testing this very scenario of >>>>>>> bursting (using g_mass_storage at the time) because I was curious >>>>>>> about >>>>>>> it. Back then, my tests showed no difference in behavior. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> It could be nice if Heikki could test Intel parts with and without >>>>>>> your >>>>>>> changes on g_mass_storage with 250 requests. >>>>>> Andy, you have a system at hand that has the DWC3 block enabled, >>>>>> right? Can you help out here? >>>>> I'm not sure if i will have time soon, I Cc'ed to Ferry who has a few >>>>> more test cases (I have only one or two) and maybe can help. But I'll >>>>> keep this in mind. >>>> I just tested on 5.13.0-rc4 on Intel Edison (x86_64). All 5 patches >>>> apply. Switching between host/gadget works, no connections dropping, no >>>> errors in dmesg. >>>> >>>> In host mode I connect a smsc9504 eth+4p hub. In gadget mode I have >>>> composite device created from configfs with gser / eem / mass_storage / >>>> uac2. >>>> >>>> Tested with iperf3 performance in host (93.6Mbits/sec) and gadget >>>> (207Mbits/sec) mode. Compared to v5.10.41 without patches host >>>> (93.4Mbits/sec) and gadget (198Mbits/sec). >>>> >>>> Gadget seems to be a little faster with the patches, but that might also >>>> be caused by something else, on v5.10.41 I see the bitrate bouncing >>>> between 207 and 199. >>>> >>>> I saw a mention to test iperf3 to self (loopback). 3.09 Gbits/sec. With >>>> v5.10.41 3.07Gbits/sec. Not bad for a 500MHz device. >>>> >>>> With gnome-disks I did a read access benchmark 35.4MB/s, with v5.10.41 >>>> 34.7MB/s. This might be limited by Edison's internal eMMC speed (when >>>> booting U-Boot reads the kernel with 21.4 MiB/s). >>>> >>> Hi Ferry, >>> >>> Thanks for the testing. Just to double check, did you also enable the >>> property, which enabled the TXFIFO resize feature on the platform? For >>> example, for the QCOM SM8150 platform, we're adding the following to our >>> device tree node: >>> >>> tx-fifo-resize >>> >>> If not, then your results at least confirms that w/o the property >>> present, the changes won't break anything :). Thanks again for the >>> initial testing! I applied the patch now to 5.13.0-rc5 + the following: --- a/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-pci.c +++ b/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-pci.c @@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ static const struct property_entry dwc3_pci_mrfld_properties[] = { PROPERTY_ENTRY_BOOL("snps,dis_u3_susphy_quirk"), PROPERTY_ENTRY_BOOL("snps,dis_u2_susphy_quirk"), PROPERTY_ENTRY_BOOL("snps,usb2-gadget-lpm-disable"), + PROPERTY_ENTRY_BOOL("tx-fifo-resize"), PROPERTY_ENTRY_BOOL("linux,sysdev_is_parent"), {} }; and when switching to gadget mode unfortunately received the following oops: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00000000202043f2 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI CPU: 0 PID: 617 Comm: conf-gadget.sh Not tainted 5.13.0-rc5-edison-acpi-standard #1 Hardware name: Intel Corporation Merrifield/BODEGA BAY, BIOS 542 2015.01.21:18.19.48 RIP: 0010:dwc3_gadget_check_config+0x33/0x80 Code: 59 04 00 00 04 74 61 48 c1 ee 10 48 89 f7 f3 48 0f b8 c7 48 89 c7 39 81 60 04 00 00 7d 4a 89 81 60 04 00 00 8b 81 08 04 00 00 <81> b8 e8 03 00 00 32 33 00 00 0f b6 b0 09 04 00 00 75 0d 8b 80 20 RSP: 0018:ffffb5550038fda0 EFLAGS: 00010297 RAX: 000000002020400a RBX: ffffa04502627348 RCX: ffffa04507354028 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000003c RDI: 0000000000000004 RBP: ffffa04508ac0550 R08: ffffa04503a75b2c R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000216 R11: 000000000002eba0 R12: ffffa04508ac0550 R13: dead000000000100 R14: ffffa04508ac0600 R15: ffffa04508ac0520 FS: 00007f7471e2f740(0000) GS:ffffa0453e200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00000000202043f2 CR3: 0000000003f38000 CR4: 00000000001006f0 Call Trace: configfs_composite_bind+0x2f4/0x430 [libcomposite] udc_bind_to_driver+0x64/0x180 usb_gadget_probe_driver+0x114/0x150 gadget_dev_desc_UDC_store+0xbc/0x130 [libcomposite] configfs_write_file+0xcd/0x140 vfs_write+0xbb/0x250 ksys_write+0x5a/0xd0 do_syscall_64+0x40/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae RIP: 0033:0x7f7471f1ff53 Code: 8b 15 21 cf 0c 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b7 0f 1f 00 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 14 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 55 c3 0f 1f 40 00 48 83 ec 28 48 89 54 24 18 RSP: 002b:00007fffa3dcd328 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000000000c RCX: 00007f7471f1ff53 RDX: 000000000000000c RSI: 00005614d615a770 RDI: 0000000000000001 RBP: 00005614d615a770 R08: 000000000000000a R09: 00007f7471fb20c0 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 000000000000000c R13: 00007f7471fee520 R14: 000000000000000c R15: 00007f7471fee720 Modules linked in: usb_f_uac2 u_audio usb_f_mass_storage usb_f_eem u_ether usb_f_serial u_serial libcomposite rfcomm iptable_nat bnep snd_sof_nocodec spi_pxa2xx_platform dw_dmac smsc snd_sof_pci_intel_tng snd_sof_pci snd_sof_acpi_intel_byt snd_sof_intel_ipc snd_sof_acpi smsc95xx snd_sof pwm_lpss_pci pwm_lpss snd_sof_xtensa_dsp snd_intel_dspcfg snd_soc_acpi_intel_match snd_soc_acpi dw_dmac_pci intel_mrfld_pwrbtn intel_mrfld_adc dw_dmac_core spi_pxa2xx_pci brcmfmac brcmutil leds_gpio hci_uart btbcm ti_ads7950 industrialio_triggered_buffer kfifo_buf ledtrig_timer ledtrig_heartbeat mmc_block extcon_intel_mrfld sdhci_pci cqhci sdhci led_class intel_soc_pmic_mrfld mmc_core btrfs libcrc32c xor zstd_compress zlib_deflate raid6_pq CR2: 00000000202043f2 ---[ end trace 5c11fe50dca92ad4 ]--- >> No I didn't. Afaik we don't have a devicetree property to set. >> >> But I'd be happy to test that as well. But where to set the property? >> >> dwc3_pci_mrfld_properties[] in dwc3-pci? >> > Hi Ferry, > > Not too sure which DWC3 driver is used for the Intel platform, but I > believe that should be the one. (if that's what is normally used) We'd > just need to add an entry w/ the below: > > PROPERTY_ENTRY_BOOL("tx-fifo-resize") > > Thanks > Wesley Cheng > >>> Thanks >>> Wesley Cheng >>> >>>>>>>> Now with endpoint bursting, if the function notifies the host that >>>>>>>> bursting is supported, when the host sends the ACK for the Data >>>>>>>> Packet, >>>>>>>> it should have a NumP value equal to the bMaxBurst reported in >>>>>>>> the EP >>>>>>> Yes and no. Looking back at the history, we used to configure NUMP >>>>>>> based >>>>>>> on bMaxBurst, but it was changed later in commit >>>>>>> 4e99472bc10bda9906526d725ff6d5f27b4ddca1 by yours truly because of a >>>>>>> problem reported by John Youn. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> And now we've come full circle. Because even if I believe more >>>>>>> requests >>>>>>> are enough for bursting, NUMP is limited by the RxFIFO size. This >>>>>>> ends >>>>>>> up supporting your claim that we need RxFIFO resizing if we want to >>>>>>> squeeze more throughput out of the controller. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> However, note that this is about RxFIFO size, not TxFIFO size. In >>>>>>> fact, >>>>>>> looking at Table 8-13 of USB 3.1 r1.0, we read the following about >>>>>>> NumP >>>>>>> (emphasis is mine): >>>>>>> >>>>>>> "Number of Packets (NumP). This field is used to indicate the >>>>>>> number of Data Packet buffers that the **receiver** can >>>>>>> accept. The value in this field shall be less than or >>>>>>> equal to >>>>>>> the maximum burst size supported by the endpoint as >>>>>>> determined >>>>>>> by the value in the bMaxBurst field in the Endpoint Companion >>>>>>> Descriptor (refer to Section 9.6.7)." >>>>>>> >>>>>>> So, NumP is for the receiver, not the transmitter. Could you clarify >>>>>>> what you mean here? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> /me keeps reading >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hmm, table 8-15 tries to clarify: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> "Number of Packets (NumP). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> For an OUT endpoint, refer to Table 8-13 for the >>>>>>> description of >>>>>>> this field. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> For an IN endpoint this field is set by the endpoint to the >>>>>>> number of packets it can transmit when the host resumes >>>>>>> transactions to it. This field shall not have a value greater >>>>>>> than the maximum burst size supported by the endpoint as >>>>>>> indicated by the value in the bMaxBurst field in the Endpoint >>>>>>> Companion Descriptor. Note that the value reported in this >>>>>>> field >>>>>>> may be treated by the host as informative only." >>>>>>> >>>>>>> However, if I remember correctly (please verify dwc3 databook), >>>>>>> NUMP in >>>>>>> DCFG was only for receive buffers. Thin, John, how does dwc3 compute >>>>>>> NumP for TX/IN endpoints? Is that computed as a function of >>>>>>> DCFG.NUMP or >>>>>>> TxFIFO size? >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> desc. If we have a TXFIFO size of 2, then normally what I have >>>>>>>> seen is >>>>>>>> that after 2 data packets, the device issues a NRDY. So then we'd >>>>>>>> need >>>>>>>> to send an ERDY once data is available within the FIFO, and the same >>>>>>>> sequence happens until the USB request is complete. With this >>>>>>>> constant >>>>>>>> NRDY/ERDY handshake going on, you actually see that the bus is under >>>>>>>> utilized. When we increase an EP's FIFO size, then you'll see >>>>>>>> constant >>>>>>>> bursts for a request, until the request is done, or if the host >>>>>>>> runs out >>>>>>>> of RXFIFO. (ie no interruption [on the USB protocol level] during >>>>>>>> USB >>>>>>>> request data transfer) >>>>>>> Unfortunately I don't have access to a USB sniffer anymore :-( >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Good points. >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Wesley, what kind of testing have you done on this on >>>>>>>>>>>>> different devices? >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> As mentioned above, these changes are currently present on end >>>>>>>>>>>> user >>>>>>>>>>>> devices for the past few years, so its been through a lot of >>>>>>>>>>>> testing :). >>>>>>>>>>> all with the same gadget driver. Also, who uses USB on android >>>>>>>>>>> devices >>>>>>>>>>> these days? Most of the data transfer goes via WiFi or >>>>>>>>>>> Bluetooth, anyway >>>>>>>>>>> :-) >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> I guess only developers are using USB during development to >>>>>>>>>>> flash dev >>>>>>>>>>> images heh. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I used to be a customer facing engineer, so honestly I did see >>>>>>>>>> some >>>>>>>>>> really interesting and crazy designs. Again, we do have >>>>>>>>>> non-Android >>>>>>>>>> products that use the same code, and it has been working in there >>>>>>>>>> for a >>>>>>>>>> few years as well. The TXFIFO sizing really has helped with >>>>>>>>>> multimedia >>>>>>>>>> use cases, which use isoc endpoints, since esp. in those lower >>>>>>>>>> end CPU >>>>>>>>>> chips where latencies across the system are much larger, and a >>>>>>>>>> missed >>>>>>>>>> ISOC interval leads to a pop in your ear. >>>>>>>>> This is good background information. Thanks for bringing this >>>>>>>>> up. Admitedly, we still have ISOC issues with dwc3. I'm >>>>>>>>> interested in >>>>>>>>> knowing if a deeper request queue would also help here. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Remember dwc3 can accomodate 255 requests + link for each >>>>>>>>> endpoint. If >>>>>>>>> our gadget driver uses a low number of requests, we're never really >>>>>>>>> using the TRB ring in our benefit. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> We're actually using both a deeper USB request queue + TX fifo >>>>>>>> resizing. :). >>>>>>> okay, great. Let's see what John and/or Thinh respond WRT dwc3 TX >>>>>>> Burst >>>>>>> behavior. >>>>>> -- >>>>>> heikki
On 6/15/2021 12:53 PM, Ferry Toth wrote: > Hi > > Op 15-06-2021 om 06:22 schreef Wesley Cheng: >> >> On 6/14/2021 12:30 PM, Ferry Toth wrote: >>> Op 14-06-2021 om 20:58 schreef Wesley Cheng: >>>> On 6/12/2021 2:27 PM, Ferry Toth wrote: >>>>> Hi >>>>> >>>>> Op 11-06-2021 om 15:21 schreef Andy Shevchenko: >>>>>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 4:14 PM Heikki Krogerus >>>>>> <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> wrote: >>>>>>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 04:00:38PM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote: >>>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Wesley Cheng <wcheng@codeaurora.org> writes: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to be honest, I don't think these should go in (apart from >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the build >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> failure) because it's likely to break instantiations of the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> core with >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> differing FIFO sizes. Some instantiations even have some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> endpoints with >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> dedicated functionality that requires the default FIFO size >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> configured >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> during coreConsultant instantiation. I know of at OMAP5 and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some Intel >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> implementations which have dedicated endpoints for processor >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> tracing. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> With OMAP5, these endpoints are configured at the top of the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> available >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> endpoints, which means that if a gadget driver gets loaded >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and takes >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> over most of the FIFO space because of this resizing, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> processor tracing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> will have a hard time running. That being said, processor >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> tracing isn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> supported in upstream at this moment. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> I agree that the application of this logic may differ between >>>>>>>>>>>>> vendors, >>>>>>>>>>>>> hence why I wanted to keep this controllable by the DT >>>>>>>>>>>>> property, so that >>>>>>>>>>>>> for those which do not support this use case can leave it >>>>>>>>>>>>> disabled. The >>>>>>>>>>>>> logic is there to ensure that for a given USB configuration, >>>>>>>>>>>>> for each EP >>>>>>>>>>>>> it would have at least 1 TX FIFO. For USB configurations >>>>>>>>>>>>> which >>>>>>>>>>>>> don't >>>>>>>>>>>>> utilize all available IN EPs, it would allow re-allocation of >>>>>>>>>>>>> internal >>>>>>>>>>>>> memory to EPs which will actually be in use. >>>>>>>>>>>> The feature ends up being all-or-nothing, then :-) It sounds >>>>>>>>>>>> like we can >>>>>>>>>>>> be a little nicer in this regard. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Don't get me wrong, I think once those features become available >>>>>>>>>>> upstream, we can improve the logic. From what I remember when >>>>>>>>>>> looking >>>>>>>>>> sure, I support that. But I want to make sure the first cut isn't >>>>>>>>>> likely >>>>>>>>>> to break things left and right :) >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Hence, let's at least get more testing. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Sure, I'd hope that the other users of DWC3 will also see some >>>>>>>>> pretty >>>>>>>>> big improvements on the TX path with this. >>>>>>>> fingers crossed >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> at Andy Shevchenko's Github, the Intel tracer downstream changes >>>>>>>>>>> were >>>>>>>>>>> just to remove physical EP1 and 2 from the DWC3 endpoint list. >>>>>>>>>>> If that >>>>>>>>>> right, that's the reason why we introduced the endpoint feature >>>>>>>>>> flags. The end goal was that the UDC would be able to have custom >>>>>>>>>> feature flags paired with ->validate_endpoint() or whatever >>>>>>>>>> before >>>>>>>>>> allowing it to be enabled. Then the UDC driver could tell UDC >>>>>>>>>> core to >>>>>>>>>> skip that endpoint on that particular platform without >>>>>>>>>> interefering with >>>>>>>>>> everything else. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Of course, we still need to figure out a way to abstract the >>>>>>>>>> different >>>>>>>>>> dwc3 instantiations. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> was the change which ended up upstream for the Intel tracer >>>>>>>>>>> then we >>>>>>>>>>> could improve the logic to avoid re-sizing those particular EPs. >>>>>>>>>> The problem then, just as I mentioned in the previous paragraph, >>>>>>>>>> will be >>>>>>>>>> coming up with a solution that's elegant and works for all >>>>>>>>>> different >>>>>>>>>> instantiations of dwc3 (or musb, cdns3, etc). >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Well, at least for the TX FIFO resizing logic, we'd only be >>>>>>>>> needing to >>>>>>>>> focus on the DWC3 implementation. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> You bring up another good topic that I'll eventually needing to be >>>>>>>>> taking a look at, which is a nice way we can handle vendor >>>>>>>>> specific >>>>>>>>> endpoints and how they can co-exist with other "normal" >>>>>>>>> endpoints. We >>>>>>>>> have a few special HW eps as well, which we try to maintain >>>>>>>>> separately >>>>>>>>> in our DWC3 vendor driver, but it isn't the most convenient, or >>>>>>>>> most >>>>>>>>> pretty method :). >>>>>>>> Awesome, as mentioned, the endpoint feature flags were added >>>>>>>> exactly to >>>>>>>> allow for these vendor-specific features :-) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I'm more than happy to help testing now that I finally got our >>>>>>>> SM8150 >>>>>>>> Surface Duo device tree accepted by Bjorn ;-) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> However, I'm not sure how the changes would look like in the >>>>>>>>>>> end, >>>>>>>>>>> so I >>>>>>>>>>> would like to wait later down the line to include that :). >>>>>>>>>> Fair enough, I agree. Can we get some more testing of $subject, >>>>>>>>>> though? >>>>>>>>>> Did you test $subject with upstream too? Which gadget drivers >>>>>>>>>> did you >>>>>>>>>> use? How did you test >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> The results that I included in the cover page was tested with the >>>>>>>>> pure >>>>>>>>> upstream kernel on our device. Below was using the ConfigFS >>>>>>>>> gadget >>>>>>>>> w/ a >>>>>>>>> mass storage only composition. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Test Parameters: >>>>>>>>> - Platform: Qualcomm SM8150 >>>>>>>>> - bMaxBurst = 6 >>>>>>>>> - USB req size = 256kB >>>>>>>>> - Num of USB reqs = 16 >>>>>>>> do you mind testing with the regular request size (16KiB) and 250 >>>>>>>> requests? I think we can even do 15 bursts in that case. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> - USB Speed = Super-Speed >>>>>>>>> - Function Driver: Mass Storage (w/ ramdisk) >>>>>>>>> - Test Application: CrystalDiskMark >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Results: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> TXFIFO Depth = 3 max packets >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Test Case | Data Size | AVG tput (in MB/s) >>>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------- >>>>>>>>> Sequential|1 GB x | >>>>>>>>> Read |9 loops | 193.60 >>>>>>>>> | | 195.86 >>>>>>>>> | | 184.77 >>>>>>>>> | | 193.60 >>>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------- >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> TXFIFO Depth = 6 max packets >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Test Case | Data Size | AVG tput (in MB/s) >>>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------- >>>>>>>>> Sequential|1 GB x | >>>>>>>>> Read |9 loops | 287.35 >>>>>>>>> | | 304.94 >>>>>>>>> | | 289.64 >>>>>>>>> | | 293.61 >>>>>>>> I remember getting close to 400MiB/sec with Intel platforms without >>>>>>>> resizing FIFOs and I'm sure the FIFO size was set to 2x1024, >>>>>>>> though my >>>>>>>> memory could be failing. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Then again, I never ran with CrystalDiskMark, I was using my own >>>>>>>> tool >>>>>>>> (it's somewhere in github. If you care, I can look up the URL). >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> We also have internal numbers which have shown similar >>>>>>>>> improvements as >>>>>>>>> well. Those are over networking/tethering interfaces, so testing >>>>>>>>> IPERF >>>>>>>>> loopback over TCP/UDP. >>>>>>>> loopback iperf? That would skip the wire, no? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> size of 2 and TX threshold of 1, this would really be not >>>>>>>>>>> beneficial to >>>>>>>>>>> us, because we can only change the TX threshold to 2 at max, >>>>>>>>>>> and at >>>>>>>>>>> least in my observations, once we have to go out to system >>>>>>>>>>> memory to >>>>>>>>>>> fetch the next data packet, that latency takes enough time >>>>>>>>>>> for the >>>>>>>>>>> controller to end the current burst. >>>>>>>>>> What I noticed with g_mass_storage is that we can amortize the >>>>>>>>>> cost of >>>>>>>>>> fetching data from memory, with a deeper request queue. >>>>>>>>>> Whenever I >>>>>>>>>> test(ed) g_mass_storage, I was doing so with 250 requests. And >>>>>>>>>> that was >>>>>>>>>> enough to give me very good performance. Never had to poke at TX >>>>>>>>>> FIFO >>>>>>>>>> resizing. Did you try something like this too? >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I feel that allocating more requests is a far simpler and more >>>>>>>>>> generic >>>>>>>>>> method that changing FIFO sizes :) >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I wish I had a USB bus trace handy to show you, which would >>>>>>>>> make it >>>>>>>>> very >>>>>>>>> clear how the USB bus is currently utilized with TXFIFO size 2 vs >>>>>>>>> 6. So >>>>>>>>> by increasing the number of USB requests, that will help if there >>>>>>>>> was a >>>>>>>>> bottleneck at the SW level where the application/function driver >>>>>>>>> utilizing the DWC3 was submitting data much faster than the HW was >>>>>>>>> processing them. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> So yes, this method of increasing the # of USB reqs will >>>>>>>>> definitely >>>>>>>>> help >>>>>>>>> with situations such as HSUSB or in SSUSB when EP bursting isn't >>>>>>>>> used. >>>>>>>>> The TXFIFO resize comes into play for SSUSB, which utilizes >>>>>>>>> endpoint >>>>>>>>> bursting. >>>>>>>> Hmm, that's not what I remember. Perhaps the TRB cache size plays a >>>>>>>> role >>>>>>>> here too. I have clear memories of testing this very scenario of >>>>>>>> bursting (using g_mass_storage at the time) because I was curious >>>>>>>> about >>>>>>>> it. Back then, my tests showed no difference in behavior. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> It could be nice if Heikki could test Intel parts with and without >>>>>>>> your >>>>>>>> changes on g_mass_storage with 250 requests. >>>>>>> Andy, you have a system at hand that has the DWC3 block enabled, >>>>>>> right? Can you help out here? >>>>>> I'm not sure if i will have time soon, I Cc'ed to Ferry who has a few >>>>>> more test cases (I have only one or two) and maybe can help. But I'll >>>>>> keep this in mind. >>>>> I just tested on 5.13.0-rc4 on Intel Edison (x86_64). All 5 patches >>>>> apply. Switching between host/gadget works, no connections >>>>> dropping, no >>>>> errors in dmesg. >>>>> >>>>> In host mode I connect a smsc9504 eth+4p hub. In gadget mode I have >>>>> composite device created from configfs with gser / eem / >>>>> mass_storage / >>>>> uac2. >>>>> >>>>> Tested with iperf3 performance in host (93.6Mbits/sec) and gadget >>>>> (207Mbits/sec) mode. Compared to v5.10.41 without patches host >>>>> (93.4Mbits/sec) and gadget (198Mbits/sec). >>>>> >>>>> Gadget seems to be a little faster with the patches, but that might >>>>> also >>>>> be caused by something else, on v5.10.41 I see the bitrate bouncing >>>>> between 207 and 199. >>>>> >>>>> I saw a mention to test iperf3 to self (loopback). 3.09 Gbits/sec. >>>>> With >>>>> v5.10.41 3.07Gbits/sec. Not bad for a 500MHz device. >>>>> >>>>> With gnome-disks I did a read access benchmark 35.4MB/s, with v5.10.41 >>>>> 34.7MB/s. This might be limited by Edison's internal eMMC speed (when >>>>> booting U-Boot reads the kernel with 21.4 MiB/s). >>>>> >>>> Hi Ferry, >>>> >>>> Thanks for the testing. Just to double check, did you also enable the >>>> property, which enabled the TXFIFO resize feature on the platform? For >>>> example, for the QCOM SM8150 platform, we're adding the following to >>>> our >>>> device tree node: >>>> >>>> tx-fifo-resize >>>> >>>> If not, then your results at least confirms that w/o the property >>>> present, the changes won't break anything :). Thanks again for the >>>> initial testing! > > I applied the patch now to 5.13.0-rc5 + the following: > Hi Ferry, Quick question...there was a compile error with the V9 patch series, as it was using the dwc3_mwidth() incorrectly. I will update this with the proper use of the mdwidth, but which patch version did you use? Thanks Wesley Cheng > --- a/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-pci.c > +++ b/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-pci.c > @@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ static const struct property_entry > dwc3_pci_mrfld_properties[] = { > PROPERTY_ENTRY_BOOL("snps,dis_u3_susphy_quirk"), > PROPERTY_ENTRY_BOOL("snps,dis_u2_susphy_quirk"), > PROPERTY_ENTRY_BOOL("snps,usb2-gadget-lpm-disable"), > + PROPERTY_ENTRY_BOOL("tx-fifo-resize"), > PROPERTY_ENTRY_BOOL("linux,sysdev_is_parent"), > {} > }; > > and when switching to gadget mode unfortunately received the following > oops: > > BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00000000202043f2 > #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode > #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page > PGD 0 P4D 0 > Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI > CPU: 0 PID: 617 Comm: conf-gadget.sh Not tainted > 5.13.0-rc5-edison-acpi-standard #1 > Hardware name: Intel Corporation Merrifield/BODEGA BAY, BIOS 542 > 2015.01.21:18.19.48 > RIP: 0010:dwc3_gadget_check_config+0x33/0x80 > Code: 59 04 00 00 04 74 61 48 c1 ee 10 48 89 f7 f3 48 0f b8 c7 48 89 c7 > 39 81 60 04 00 00 7d 4a 89 81 60 04 00 00 8b 81 08 04 00 00 <81> b8 e8 > 03 00 00 32 33 00 00 0f b6 b0 09 04 00 00 75 0d 8b 80 20 > RSP: 0018:ffffb5550038fda0 EFLAGS: 00010297 > RAX: 000000002020400a RBX: ffffa04502627348 RCX: ffffa04507354028 > RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000003c RDI: 0000000000000004 > RBP: ffffa04508ac0550 R08: ffffa04503a75b2c R09: 0000000000000000 > R10: 0000000000000216 R11: 000000000002eba0 R12: ffffa04508ac0550 > R13: dead000000000100 R14: ffffa04508ac0600 R15: ffffa04508ac0520 > FS: 00007f7471e2f740(0000) GS:ffffa0453e200000(0000) > knlGS:0000000000000000 > CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 > CR2: 00000000202043f2 CR3: 0000000003f38000 CR4: 00000000001006f0 > Call Trace: > configfs_composite_bind+0x2f4/0x430 [libcomposite] > udc_bind_to_driver+0x64/0x180 > usb_gadget_probe_driver+0x114/0x150 > gadget_dev_desc_UDC_store+0xbc/0x130 [libcomposite] > configfs_write_file+0xcd/0x140 > vfs_write+0xbb/0x250 > ksys_write+0x5a/0xd0 > do_syscall_64+0x40/0x80 > entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae > RIP: 0033:0x7f7471f1ff53 > Code: 8b 15 21 cf 0c 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b7 0f 1f > 00 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 14 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 > f0 ff ff 77 55 c3 0f 1f 40 00 48 83 ec 28 48 89 54 24 18 > RSP: 002b:00007fffa3dcd328 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001 > RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000000000c RCX: 00007f7471f1ff53 > RDX: 000000000000000c RSI: 00005614d615a770 RDI: 0000000000000001 > RBP: 00005614d615a770 R08: 000000000000000a R09: 00007f7471fb20c0 > R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 000000000000000c > R13: 00007f7471fee520 R14: 000000000000000c R15: 00007f7471fee720 > Modules linked in: usb_f_uac2 u_audio usb_f_mass_storage usb_f_eem > u_ether usb_f_serial u_serial libcomposite rfcomm iptable_nat bnep > snd_sof_nocodec spi_pxa2xx_platform dw_dmac smsc snd_sof_pci_intel_tng > snd_sof_pci snd_sof_acpi_intel_byt snd_sof_intel_ipc snd_sof_acpi > smsc95xx snd_sof pwm_lpss_pci pwm_lpss snd_sof_xtensa_dsp > snd_intel_dspcfg snd_soc_acpi_intel_match snd_soc_acpi dw_dmac_pci > intel_mrfld_pwrbtn intel_mrfld_adc dw_dmac_core spi_pxa2xx_pci brcmfmac > brcmutil leds_gpio hci_uart btbcm ti_ads7950 > industrialio_triggered_buffer kfifo_buf ledtrig_timer ledtrig_heartbeat > mmc_block extcon_intel_mrfld sdhci_pci cqhci sdhci led_class > intel_soc_pmic_mrfld mmc_core btrfs libcrc32c xor zstd_compress > zlib_deflate raid6_pq > CR2: 00000000202043f2 > ---[ end trace 5c11fe50dca92ad4 ]--- > >>> No I didn't. Afaik we don't have a devicetree property to set. >>> >>> But I'd be happy to test that as well. But where to set the property? >>> >>> dwc3_pci_mrfld_properties[] in dwc3-pci? >>> >> Hi Ferry, >> >> Not too sure which DWC3 driver is used for the Intel platform, but I >> believe that should be the one. (if that's what is normally used) We'd >> just need to add an entry w/ the below: >> >> PROPERTY_ENTRY_BOOL("tx-fifo-resize") >> >> Thanks >> Wesley Cheng >> >>>> Thanks >>>> Wesley Cheng >>>> >>>>>>>>> Now with endpoint bursting, if the function notifies the host that >>>>>>>>> bursting is supported, when the host sends the ACK for the Data >>>>>>>>> Packet, >>>>>>>>> it should have a NumP value equal to the bMaxBurst reported in >>>>>>>>> the EP >>>>>>>> Yes and no. Looking back at the history, we used to configure NUMP >>>>>>>> based >>>>>>>> on bMaxBurst, but it was changed later in commit >>>>>>>> 4e99472bc10bda9906526d725ff6d5f27b4ddca1 by yours truly because >>>>>>>> of a >>>>>>>> problem reported by John Youn. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> And now we've come full circle. Because even if I believe more >>>>>>>> requests >>>>>>>> are enough for bursting, NUMP is limited by the RxFIFO size. This >>>>>>>> ends >>>>>>>> up supporting your claim that we need RxFIFO resizing if we want to >>>>>>>> squeeze more throughput out of the controller. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> However, note that this is about RxFIFO size, not TxFIFO size. In >>>>>>>> fact, >>>>>>>> looking at Table 8-13 of USB 3.1 r1.0, we read the following about >>>>>>>> NumP >>>>>>>> (emphasis is mine): >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> "Number of Packets (NumP). This field is used to >>>>>>>> indicate the >>>>>>>> number of Data Packet buffers that the **receiver** can >>>>>>>> accept. The value in this field shall be less than or >>>>>>>> equal to >>>>>>>> the maximum burst size supported by the endpoint as >>>>>>>> determined >>>>>>>> by the value in the bMaxBurst field in the Endpoint >>>>>>>> Companion >>>>>>>> Descriptor (refer to Section 9.6.7)." >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> So, NumP is for the receiver, not the transmitter. Could you >>>>>>>> clarify >>>>>>>> what you mean here? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> /me keeps reading >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hmm, table 8-15 tries to clarify: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> "Number of Packets (NumP). >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> For an OUT endpoint, refer to Table 8-13 for the >>>>>>>> description of >>>>>>>> this field. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> For an IN endpoint this field is set by the endpoint to >>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>> number of packets it can transmit when the host resumes >>>>>>>> transactions to it. This field shall not have a value >>>>>>>> greater >>>>>>>> than the maximum burst size supported by the endpoint as >>>>>>>> indicated by the value in the bMaxBurst field in the >>>>>>>> Endpoint >>>>>>>> Companion Descriptor. Note that the value reported in this >>>>>>>> field >>>>>>>> may be treated by the host as informative only." >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> However, if I remember correctly (please verify dwc3 databook), >>>>>>>> NUMP in >>>>>>>> DCFG was only for receive buffers. Thin, John, how does dwc3 >>>>>>>> compute >>>>>>>> NumP for TX/IN endpoints? Is that computed as a function of >>>>>>>> DCFG.NUMP or >>>>>>>> TxFIFO size? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> desc. If we have a TXFIFO size of 2, then normally what I have >>>>>>>>> seen is >>>>>>>>> that after 2 data packets, the device issues a NRDY. So then we'd >>>>>>>>> need >>>>>>>>> to send an ERDY once data is available within the FIFO, and the >>>>>>>>> same >>>>>>>>> sequence happens until the USB request is complete. With this >>>>>>>>> constant >>>>>>>>> NRDY/ERDY handshake going on, you actually see that the bus is >>>>>>>>> under >>>>>>>>> utilized. When we increase an EP's FIFO size, then you'll see >>>>>>>>> constant >>>>>>>>> bursts for a request, until the request is done, or if the host >>>>>>>>> runs out >>>>>>>>> of RXFIFO. (ie no interruption [on the USB protocol level] during >>>>>>>>> USB >>>>>>>>> request data transfer) >>>>>>>> Unfortunately I don't have access to a USB sniffer anymore :-( >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Good points. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Wesley, what kind of testing have you done on this on >>>>>>>>>>>>>> different devices? >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> As mentioned above, these changes are currently present on end >>>>>>>>>>>>> user >>>>>>>>>>>>> devices for the past few years, so its been through a lot of >>>>>>>>>>>>> testing :). >>>>>>>>>>>> all with the same gadget driver. Also, who uses USB on android >>>>>>>>>>>> devices >>>>>>>>>>>> these days? Most of the data transfer goes via WiFi or >>>>>>>>>>>> Bluetooth, anyway >>>>>>>>>>>> :-) >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> I guess only developers are using USB during development to >>>>>>>>>>>> flash dev >>>>>>>>>>>> images heh. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> I used to be a customer facing engineer, so honestly I did see >>>>>>>>>>> some >>>>>>>>>>> really interesting and crazy designs. Again, we do have >>>>>>>>>>> non-Android >>>>>>>>>>> products that use the same code, and it has been working in >>>>>>>>>>> there >>>>>>>>>>> for a >>>>>>>>>>> few years as well. The TXFIFO sizing really has helped with >>>>>>>>>>> multimedia >>>>>>>>>>> use cases, which use isoc endpoints, since esp. in those lower >>>>>>>>>>> end CPU >>>>>>>>>>> chips where latencies across the system are much larger, and a >>>>>>>>>>> missed >>>>>>>>>>> ISOC interval leads to a pop in your ear. >>>>>>>>>> This is good background information. Thanks for bringing this >>>>>>>>>> up. Admitedly, we still have ISOC issues with dwc3. I'm >>>>>>>>>> interested in >>>>>>>>>> knowing if a deeper request queue would also help here. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Remember dwc3 can accomodate 255 requests + link for each >>>>>>>>>> endpoint. If >>>>>>>>>> our gadget driver uses a low number of requests, we're never >>>>>>>>>> really >>>>>>>>>> using the TRB ring in our benefit. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> We're actually using both a deeper USB request queue + TX fifo >>>>>>>>> resizing. :). >>>>>>>> okay, great. Let's see what John and/or Thinh respond WRT dwc3 TX >>>>>>>> Burst >>>>>>>> behavior. >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> heikki -- The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
On 6/17/2021 12:47 AM, Ferry Toth wrote: > Hi > > Op 17-06-2021 om 06:25 schreef Wesley Cheng: >> On 6/15/2021 12:53 PM, Ferry Toth wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> Op 15-06-2021 om 06:22 schreef Wesley Cheng: >>>> On 6/14/2021 12:30 PM, Ferry Toth wrote: >>>>> Op 14-06-2021 om 20:58 schreef Wesley Cheng: >>>>>> On 6/12/2021 2:27 PM, Ferry Toth wrote: >>>>>>> Hi >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Op 11-06-2021 om 15:21 schreef Andy Shevchenko: >>>>>>>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 4:14 PM Heikki Krogerus >>>>>>>> <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> wrote: >>>>>>>>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 04:00:38PM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote: >>>>>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Wesley Cheng <wcheng@codeaurora.org> writes: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to be honest, I don't think these should go in (apart from >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the build >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> failure) because it's likely to break instantiations of the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> core with >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> differing FIFO sizes. Some instantiations even have some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> endpoints with >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> dedicated functionality that requires the default FIFO size >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> configured >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> during coreConsultant instantiation. I know of at OMAP5 and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some Intel >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> implementations which have dedicated endpoints for processor >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> tracing. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> With OMAP5, these endpoints are configured at the top of the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> available >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> endpoints, which means that if a gadget driver gets loaded >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and takes >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> over most of the FIFO space because of this resizing, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> processor tracing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> will have a hard time running. That being said, processor >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> tracing isn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> supported in upstream at this moment. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I agree that the application of this logic may differ between >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> vendors, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> hence why I wanted to keep this controllable by the DT >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> property, so that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> for those which do not support this use case can leave it >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> disabled. The >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> logic is there to ensure that for a given USB configuration, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> for each EP >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> it would have at least 1 TX FIFO. For USB configurations >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> which >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> don't >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> utilize all available IN EPs, it would allow re-allocation of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> internal >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> memory to EPs which will actually be in use. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> The feature ends up being all-or-nothing, then :-) It sounds >>>>>>>>>>>>>> like we can >>>>>>>>>>>>>> be a little nicer in this regard. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Don't get me wrong, I think once those features become available >>>>>>>>>>>>> upstream, we can improve the logic. From what I remember when >>>>>>>>>>>>> looking >>>>>>>>>>>> sure, I support that. But I want to make sure the first cut isn't >>>>>>>>>>>> likely >>>>>>>>>>>> to break things left and right :) >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Hence, let's at least get more testing. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Sure, I'd hope that the other users of DWC3 will also see some >>>>>>>>>>> pretty >>>>>>>>>>> big improvements on the TX path with this. >>>>>>>>>> fingers crossed >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> at Andy Shevchenko's Github, the Intel tracer downstream changes >>>>>>>>>>>>> were >>>>>>>>>>>>> just to remove physical EP1 and 2 from the DWC3 endpoint list. >>>>>>>>>>>>> If that >>>>>>>>>>>> right, that's the reason why we introduced the endpoint feature >>>>>>>>>>>> flags. The end goal was that the UDC would be able to have custom >>>>>>>>>>>> feature flags paired with ->validate_endpoint() or whatever >>>>>>>>>>>> before >>>>>>>>>>>> allowing it to be enabled. Then the UDC driver could tell UDC >>>>>>>>>>>> core to >>>>>>>>>>>> skip that endpoint on that particular platform without >>>>>>>>>>>> interefering with >>>>>>>>>>>> everything else. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Of course, we still need to figure out a way to abstract the >>>>>>>>>>>> different >>>>>>>>>>>> dwc3 instantiations. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> was the change which ended up upstream for the Intel tracer >>>>>>>>>>>>> then we >>>>>>>>>>>>> could improve the logic to avoid re-sizing those particular EPs. >>>>>>>>>>>> The problem then, just as I mentioned in the previous paragraph, >>>>>>>>>>>> will be >>>>>>>>>>>> coming up with a solution that's elegant and works for all >>>>>>>>>>>> different >>>>>>>>>>>> instantiations of dwc3 (or musb, cdns3, etc). >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Well, at least for the TX FIFO resizing logic, we'd only be >>>>>>>>>>> needing to >>>>>>>>>>> focus on the DWC3 implementation. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> You bring up another good topic that I'll eventually needing to be >>>>>>>>>>> taking a look at, which is a nice way we can handle vendor >>>>>>>>>>> specific >>>>>>>>>>> endpoints and how they can co-exist with other "normal" >>>>>>>>>>> endpoints. We >>>>>>>>>>> have a few special HW eps as well, which we try to maintain >>>>>>>>>>> separately >>>>>>>>>>> in our DWC3 vendor driver, but it isn't the most convenient, or >>>>>>>>>>> most >>>>>>>>>>> pretty method :). >>>>>>>>>> Awesome, as mentioned, the endpoint feature flags were added >>>>>>>>>> exactly to >>>>>>>>>> allow for these vendor-specific features :-) >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I'm more than happy to help testing now that I finally got our >>>>>>>>>> SM8150 >>>>>>>>>> Surface Duo device tree accepted by Bjorn ;-) >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> However, I'm not sure how the changes would look like in the >>>>>>>>>>>>> end, >>>>>>>>>>>>> so I >>>>>>>>>>>>> would like to wait later down the line to include that :). >>>>>>>>>>>> Fair enough, I agree. Can we get some more testing of $subject, >>>>>>>>>>>> though? >>>>>>>>>>>> Did you test $subject with upstream too? Which gadget drivers >>>>>>>>>>>> did you >>>>>>>>>>>> use? How did you test >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> The results that I included in the cover page was tested with the >>>>>>>>>>> pure >>>>>>>>>>> upstream kernel on our device. Below was using the ConfigFS >>>>>>>>>>> gadget >>>>>>>>>>> w/ a >>>>>>>>>>> mass storage only composition. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Test Parameters: >>>>>>>>>>> - Platform: Qualcomm SM8150 >>>>>>>>>>> - bMaxBurst = 6 >>>>>>>>>>> - USB req size = 256kB >>>>>>>>>>> - Num of USB reqs = 16 >>>>>>>>>> do you mind testing with the regular request size (16KiB) and 250 >>>>>>>>>> requests? I think we can even do 15 bursts in that case. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> - USB Speed = Super-Speed >>>>>>>>>>> - Function Driver: Mass Storage (w/ ramdisk) >>>>>>>>>>> - Test Application: CrystalDiskMark >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Results: >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> TXFIFO Depth = 3 max packets >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Test Case | Data Size | AVG tput (in MB/s) >>>>>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------- >>>>>>>>>>> Sequential|1 GB x | >>>>>>>>>>> Read |9 loops | 193.60 >>>>>>>>>>> | | 195.86 >>>>>>>>>>> | | 184.77 >>>>>>>>>>> | | 193.60 >>>>>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------- >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> TXFIFO Depth = 6 max packets >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Test Case | Data Size | AVG tput (in MB/s) >>>>>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------- >>>>>>>>>>> Sequential|1 GB x | >>>>>>>>>>> Read |9 loops | 287.35 >>>>>>>>>>> | | 304.94 >>>>>>>>>>> | | 289.64 >>>>>>>>>>> | | 293.61 >>>>>>>>>> I remember getting close to 400MiB/sec with Intel platforms without >>>>>>>>>> resizing FIFOs and I'm sure the FIFO size was set to 2x1024, >>>>>>>>>> though my >>>>>>>>>> memory could be failing. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Then again, I never ran with CrystalDiskMark, I was using my own >>>>>>>>>> tool >>>>>>>>>> (it's somewhere in github. If you care, I can look up the URL). >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> We also have internal numbers which have shown similar >>>>>>>>>>> improvements as >>>>>>>>>>> well. Those are over networking/tethering interfaces, so testing >>>>>>>>>>> IPERF >>>>>>>>>>> loopback over TCP/UDP. >>>>>>>>>> loopback iperf? That would skip the wire, no? >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> size of 2 and TX threshold of 1, this would really be not >>>>>>>>>>>>> beneficial to >>>>>>>>>>>>> us, because we can only change the TX threshold to 2 at max, >>>>>>>>>>>>> and at >>>>>>>>>>>>> least in my observations, once we have to go out to system >>>>>>>>>>>>> memory to >>>>>>>>>>>>> fetch the next data packet, that latency takes enough time >>>>>>>>>>>>> for the >>>>>>>>>>>>> controller to end the current burst. >>>>>>>>>>>> What I noticed with g_mass_storage is that we can amortize the >>>>>>>>>>>> cost of >>>>>>>>>>>> fetching data from memory, with a deeper request queue. >>>>>>>>>>>> Whenever I >>>>>>>>>>>> test(ed) g_mass_storage, I was doing so with 250 requests. And >>>>>>>>>>>> that was >>>>>>>>>>>> enough to give me very good performance. Never had to poke at TX >>>>>>>>>>>> FIFO >>>>>>>>>>>> resizing. Did you try something like this too? >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> I feel that allocating more requests is a far simpler and more >>>>>>>>>>>> generic >>>>>>>>>>>> method that changing FIFO sizes :) >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> I wish I had a USB bus trace handy to show you, which would >>>>>>>>>>> make it >>>>>>>>>>> very >>>>>>>>>>> clear how the USB bus is currently utilized with TXFIFO size 2 vs >>>>>>>>>>> 6. So >>>>>>>>>>> by increasing the number of USB requests, that will help if there >>>>>>>>>>> was a >>>>>>>>>>> bottleneck at the SW level where the application/function driver >>>>>>>>>>> utilizing the DWC3 was submitting data much faster than the HW was >>>>>>>>>>> processing them. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> So yes, this method of increasing the # of USB reqs will >>>>>>>>>>> definitely >>>>>>>>>>> help >>>>>>>>>>> with situations such as HSUSB or in SSUSB when EP bursting isn't >>>>>>>>>>> used. >>>>>>>>>>> The TXFIFO resize comes into play for SSUSB, which utilizes >>>>>>>>>>> endpoint >>>>>>>>>>> bursting. >>>>>>>>>> Hmm, that's not what I remember. Perhaps the TRB cache size plays a >>>>>>>>>> role >>>>>>>>>> here too. I have clear memories of testing this very scenario of >>>>>>>>>> bursting (using g_mass_storage at the time) because I was curious >>>>>>>>>> about >>>>>>>>>> it. Back then, my tests showed no difference in behavior. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> It could be nice if Heikki could test Intel parts with and without >>>>>>>>>> your >>>>>>>>>> changes on g_mass_storage with 250 requests. >>>>>>>>> Andy, you have a system at hand that has the DWC3 block enabled, >>>>>>>>> right? Can you help out here? >>>>>>>> I'm not sure if i will have time soon, I Cc'ed to Ferry who has a few >>>>>>>> more test cases (I have only one or two) and maybe can help. But I'll >>>>>>>> keep this in mind. >>>>>>> I just tested on 5.13.0-rc4 on Intel Edison (x86_64). All 5 patches >>>>>>> apply. Switching between host/gadget works, no connections >>>>>>> dropping, no >>>>>>> errors in dmesg. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> In host mode I connect a smsc9504 eth+4p hub. In gadget mode I have >>>>>>> composite device created from configfs with gser / eem / >>>>>>> mass_storage / >>>>>>> uac2. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Tested with iperf3 performance in host (93.6Mbits/sec) and gadget >>>>>>> (207Mbits/sec) mode. Compared to v5.10.41 without patches host >>>>>>> (93.4Mbits/sec) and gadget (198Mbits/sec). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Gadget seems to be a little faster with the patches, but that might >>>>>>> also >>>>>>> be caused by something else, on v5.10.41 I see the bitrate bouncing >>>>>>> between 207 and 199. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I saw a mention to test iperf3 to self (loopback). 3.09 Gbits/sec. >>>>>>> With >>>>>>> v5.10.41 3.07Gbits/sec. Not bad for a 500MHz device. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> With gnome-disks I did a read access benchmark 35.4MB/s, with v5.10.41 >>>>>>> 34.7MB/s. This might be limited by Edison's internal eMMC speed (when >>>>>>> booting U-Boot reads the kernel with 21.4 MiB/s). >>>>>>> >>>>>> Hi Ferry, >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks for the testing. Just to double check, did you also enable the >>>>>> property, which enabled the TXFIFO resize feature on the platform? For >>>>>> example, for the QCOM SM8150 platform, we're adding the following to >>>>>> our >>>>>> device tree node: >>>>>> >>>>>> tx-fifo-resize >>>>>> >>>>>> If not, then your results at least confirms that w/o the property >>>>>> present, the changes won't break anything :). Thanks again for the >>>>>> initial testing! >>> I applied the patch now to 5.13.0-rc5 + the following: >>> >> Hi Ferry, >> >> Quick question...there was a compile error with the V9 patch series, as >> it was using the dwc3_mwidth() incorrectly. I will update this with the >> proper use of the mdwidth, but which patch version did you use? Hi Ferry, > The V9 set gets applied to 5.13.0-rc5 by Yocto, if it doesn't apply it > stops the build. I didn't notice any compile errors, they stop the whole > build process too. But warnings are ignored. I'll check the logs to be sure. Ah, ok. I think the incorrect usage of the API will result as a warning as seen in Greg's compile log: drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c: In function ‘dwc3_gadget_calc_tx_fifo_size’: drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c:653:45: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘dwc3_mdwidth’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion] 653 | mdwidth = dwc3_mdwidth(dwc->hwparams.hwparams0); This is probably why the page fault occurs, as we're not passing in the DWC3 struct. I will send out a V10 shortly after testing it on my device. Thanks Wesley Cheng >> Thanks >> Wesley Cheng >> >>> --- a/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-pci.c >>> +++ b/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-pci.c >>> @@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ static const struct property_entry >>> dwc3_pci_mrfld_properties[] = { >>> PROPERTY_ENTRY_BOOL("snps,dis_u3_susphy_quirk"), >>> PROPERTY_ENTRY_BOOL("snps,dis_u2_susphy_quirk"), >>> PROPERTY_ENTRY_BOOL("snps,usb2-gadget-lpm-disable"), >>> + PROPERTY_ENTRY_BOOL("tx-fifo-resize"), >>> PROPERTY_ENTRY_BOOL("linux,sysdev_is_parent"), >>> {} >>> }; >>> >>> and when switching to gadget mode unfortunately received the following >>> oops: >>> >>> BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00000000202043f2 >>> #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode >>> #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page >>> PGD 0 P4D 0 >>> Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI >>> CPU: 0 PID: 617 Comm: conf-gadget.sh Not tainted >>> 5.13.0-rc5-edison-acpi-standard #1 >>> Hardware name: Intel Corporation Merrifield/BODEGA BAY, BIOS 542 >>> 2015.01.21:18.19.48 >>> RIP: 0010:dwc3_gadget_check_config+0x33/0x80 >>> Code: 59 04 00 00 04 74 61 48 c1 ee 10 48 89 f7 f3 48 0f b8 c7 48 89 c7 >>> 39 81 60 04 00 00 7d 4a 89 81 60 04 00 00 8b 81 08 04 00 00 <81> b8 e8 >>> 03 00 00 32 33 00 00 0f b6 b0 09 04 00 00 75 0d 8b 80 20 >>> RSP: 0018:ffffb5550038fda0 EFLAGS: 00010297 >>> RAX: 000000002020400a RBX: ffffa04502627348 RCX: ffffa04507354028 >>> RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000003c RDI: 0000000000000004 >>> RBP: ffffa04508ac0550 R08: ffffa04503a75b2c R09: 0000000000000000 >>> R10: 0000000000000216 R11: 000000000002eba0 R12: ffffa04508ac0550 >>> R13: dead000000000100 R14: ffffa04508ac0600 R15: ffffa04508ac0520 >>> FS: 00007f7471e2f740(0000) GS:ffffa0453e200000(0000) >>> knlGS:0000000000000000 >>> CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 >>> CR2: 00000000202043f2 CR3: 0000000003f38000 CR4: 00000000001006f0 >>> Call Trace: >>> configfs_composite_bind+0x2f4/0x430 [libcomposite] >>> udc_bind_to_driver+0x64/0x180 >>> usb_gadget_probe_driver+0x114/0x150 >>> gadget_dev_desc_UDC_store+0xbc/0x130 [libcomposite] >>> configfs_write_file+0xcd/0x140 >>> vfs_write+0xbb/0x250 >>> ksys_write+0x5a/0xd0 >>> do_syscall_64+0x40/0x80 >>> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae >>> RIP: 0033:0x7f7471f1ff53 >>> Code: 8b 15 21 cf 0c 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b7 0f 1f >>> 00 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 14 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 >>> f0 ff ff 77 55 c3 0f 1f 40 00 48 83 ec 28 48 89 54 24 18 >>> RSP: 002b:00007fffa3dcd328 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001 >>> RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000000000c RCX: 00007f7471f1ff53 >>> RDX: 000000000000000c RSI: 00005614d615a770 RDI: 0000000000000001 >>> RBP: 00005614d615a770 R08: 000000000000000a R09: 00007f7471fb20c0 >>> R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 000000000000000c >>> R13: 00007f7471fee520 R14: 000000000000000c R15: 00007f7471fee720 >>> Modules linked in: usb_f_uac2 u_audio usb_f_mass_storage usb_f_eem >>> u_ether usb_f_serial u_serial libcomposite rfcomm iptable_nat bnep >>> snd_sof_nocodec spi_pxa2xx_platform dw_dmac smsc snd_sof_pci_intel_tng >>> snd_sof_pci snd_sof_acpi_intel_byt snd_sof_intel_ipc snd_sof_acpi >>> smsc95xx snd_sof pwm_lpss_pci pwm_lpss snd_sof_xtensa_dsp >>> snd_intel_dspcfg snd_soc_acpi_intel_match snd_soc_acpi dw_dmac_pci >>> intel_mrfld_pwrbtn intel_mrfld_adc dw_dmac_core spi_pxa2xx_pci brcmfmac >>> brcmutil leds_gpio hci_uart btbcm ti_ads7950 >>> industrialio_triggered_buffer kfifo_buf ledtrig_timer ledtrig_heartbeat >>> mmc_block extcon_intel_mrfld sdhci_pci cqhci sdhci led_class >>> intel_soc_pmic_mrfld mmc_core btrfs libcrc32c xor zstd_compress >>> zlib_deflate raid6_pq >>> CR2: 00000000202043f2 >>> ---[ end trace 5c11fe50dca92ad4 ]--- >>> >>>>> No I didn't. Afaik we don't have a devicetree property to set. >>>>> >>>>> But I'd be happy to test that as well. But where to set the property? >>>>> >>>>> dwc3_pci_mrfld_properties[] in dwc3-pci? >>>>> >>>> Hi Ferry, >>>> >>>> Not too sure which DWC3 driver is used for the Intel platform, but I >>>> believe that should be the one. (if that's what is normally used) We'd >>>> just need to add an entry w/ the below: >>>> >>>> PROPERTY_ENTRY_BOOL("tx-fifo-resize") >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> Wesley Cheng >>>> >>>>>> Thanks >>>>>> Wesley Cheng >>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Now with endpoint bursting, if the function notifies the host that >>>>>>>>>>> bursting is supported, when the host sends the ACK for the Data >>>>>>>>>>> Packet, >>>>>>>>>>> it should have a NumP value equal to the bMaxBurst reported in >>>>>>>>>>> the EP >>>>>>>>>> Yes and no. Looking back at the history, we used to configure NUMP >>>>>>>>>> based >>>>>>>>>> on bMaxBurst, but it was changed later in commit >>>>>>>>>> 4e99472bc10bda9906526d725ff6d5f27b4ddca1 by yours truly because >>>>>>>>>> of a >>>>>>>>>> problem reported by John Youn. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> And now we've come full circle. Because even if I believe more >>>>>>>>>> requests >>>>>>>>>> are enough for bursting, NUMP is limited by the RxFIFO size. This >>>>>>>>>> ends >>>>>>>>>> up supporting your claim that we need RxFIFO resizing if we want to >>>>>>>>>> squeeze more throughput out of the controller. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> However, note that this is about RxFIFO size, not TxFIFO size. In >>>>>>>>>> fact, >>>>>>>>>> looking at Table 8-13 of USB 3.1 r1.0, we read the following about >>>>>>>>>> NumP >>>>>>>>>> (emphasis is mine): >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> "Number of Packets (NumP). This field is used to >>>>>>>>>> indicate the >>>>>>>>>> number of Data Packet buffers that the **receiver** can >>>>>>>>>> accept. The value in this field shall be less than or >>>>>>>>>> equal to >>>>>>>>>> the maximum burst size supported by the endpoint as >>>>>>>>>> determined >>>>>>>>>> by the value in the bMaxBurst field in the Endpoint >>>>>>>>>> Companion >>>>>>>>>> Descriptor (refer to Section 9.6.7)." >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> So, NumP is for the receiver, not the transmitter. Could you >>>>>>>>>> clarify >>>>>>>>>> what you mean here? >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> /me keeps reading >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Hmm, table 8-15 tries to clarify: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> "Number of Packets (NumP). >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> For an OUT endpoint, refer to Table 8-13 for the >>>>>>>>>> description of >>>>>>>>>> this field. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> For an IN endpoint this field is set by the endpoint to >>>>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>>>> number of packets it can transmit when the host resumes >>>>>>>>>> transactions to it. This field shall not have a value >>>>>>>>>> greater >>>>>>>>>> than the maximum burst size supported by the endpoint as >>>>>>>>>> indicated by the value in the bMaxBurst field in the >>>>>>>>>> Endpoint >>>>>>>>>> Companion Descriptor. Note that the value reported in this >>>>>>>>>> field >>>>>>>>>> may be treated by the host as informative only." >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> However, if I remember correctly (please verify dwc3 databook), >>>>>>>>>> NUMP in >>>>>>>>>> DCFG was only for receive buffers. Thin, John, how does dwc3 >>>>>>>>>> compute >>>>>>>>>> NumP for TX/IN endpoints? Is that computed as a function of >>>>>>>>>> DCFG.NUMP or >>>>>>>>>> TxFIFO size? >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> desc. If we have a TXFIFO size of 2, then normally what I have >>>>>>>>>>> seen is >>>>>>>>>>> that after 2 data packets, the device issues a NRDY. So then we'd >>>>>>>>>>> need >>>>>>>>>>> to send an ERDY once data is available within the FIFO, and the >>>>>>>>>>> same >>>>>>>>>>> sequence happens until the USB request is complete. With this >>>>>>>>>>> constant >>>>>>>>>>> NRDY/ERDY handshake going on, you actually see that the bus is >>>>>>>>>>> under >>>>>>>>>>> utilized. When we increase an EP's FIFO size, then you'll see >>>>>>>>>>> constant >>>>>>>>>>> bursts for a request, until the request is done, or if the host >>>>>>>>>>> runs out >>>>>>>>>>> of RXFIFO. (ie no interruption [on the USB protocol level] during >>>>>>>>>>> USB >>>>>>>>>>> request data transfer) >>>>>>>>>> Unfortunately I don't have access to a USB sniffer anymore :-( >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Good points. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Wesley, what kind of testing have you done on this on >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> different devices? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> As mentioned above, these changes are currently present on end >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> user >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> devices for the past few years, so its been through a lot of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> testing :). >>>>>>>>>>>>>> all with the same gadget driver. Also, who uses USB on android >>>>>>>>>>>>>> devices >>>>>>>>>>>>>> these days? Most of the data transfer goes via WiFi or >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Bluetooth, anyway >>>>>>>>>>>>>> :-) >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> I guess only developers are using USB during development to >>>>>>>>>>>>>> flash dev >>>>>>>>>>>>>> images heh. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> I used to be a customer facing engineer, so honestly I did see >>>>>>>>>>>>> some >>>>>>>>>>>>> really interesting and crazy designs. Again, we do have >>>>>>>>>>>>> non-Android >>>>>>>>>>>>> products that use the same code, and it has been working in >>>>>>>>>>>>> there >>>>>>>>>>>>> for a >>>>>>>>>>>>> few years as well. The TXFIFO sizing really has helped with >>>>>>>>>>>>> multimedia >>>>>>>>>>>>> use cases, which use isoc endpoints, since esp. in those lower >>>>>>>>>>>>> end CPU >>>>>>>>>>>>> chips where latencies across the system are much larger, and a >>>>>>>>>>>>> missed >>>>>>>>>>>>> ISOC interval leads to a pop in your ear. >>>>>>>>>>>> This is good background information. Thanks for bringing this >>>>>>>>>>>> up. Admitedly, we still have ISOC issues with dwc3. I'm >>>>>>>>>>>> interested in >>>>>>>>>>>> knowing if a deeper request queue would also help here. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Remember dwc3 can accomodate 255 requests + link for each >>>>>>>>>>>> endpoint. If >>>>>>>>>>>> our gadget driver uses a low number of requests, we're never >>>>>>>>>>>> really >>>>>>>>>>>> using the TRB ring in our benefit. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> We're actually using both a deeper USB request queue + TX fifo >>>>>>>>>>> resizing. :). >>>>>>>>>> okay, great. Let's see what John and/or Thinh respond WRT dwc3 TX >>>>>>>>>> Burst >>>>>>>>>> behavior. >>>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>>> heikki