On Wednesday 04 March 2009, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[email protected]> > > Hans Petter Selasky <[email protected]> writes: > : Hi Steve, > : > : On Tuesday 03 March 2009, Steve Calfee wrote: > : > > I think the reduced performance can be explained by a clamp on the > : > > interrupt rate around 1000 interrupts per second instead of 8000. > : > > Maybe someone has an explanation for this? > : > > > : > > The EHCI is being programmed to interrupt at 125us intervals, but > : > > there seems to be limits other places. > : > > > : > > It is possible to workaround this in the umass driver by doing the > : > > cmd + read in one operation. > : > > : > Hi Hans, > : > > : > I am looking at using FreeBSD in an embedded product. I have not > : > examined your ehci software, but I am aware of how Linux and other > : > OSes run the controller. > : > > : > Why are you taking an interrupt every uFrame SOF? > : > : If the transaction completes before 125us we take the interrupt before > : 125us. The problem is that the interrupt delay becomes critical to > : performance when the interrupt rate is close to the interrupt limitation. > : > : For example: > : > : Transferring 13Mbyte/sec at blocksize equal to 65536 bytes generates 600 > : interrupts. Hence the Mass Storage state machine has three steps the > : throughput is computed like (600/3)*65536 bytes. If we on the average > : have to wait 0.5ms for an interrupt we loose throughput. > > Shouldn't you be using filters and such to make this less relevant? A > filter runs on the order of 5us after the interrupt on fast machines, > and 20us on slower (400MHz) ones. You can feed the pipeline better, > and handle higher interrupt rates... >
Yes, that's one possibility. It looks like there is some timing slightly out of sync. I have an AMD box with the same symptoms. I will try to figure out what is causing it. --HPS _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
