It is being investigated within Ettus R&D. 

I have no estimate for a resolution. 



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> On Apr 20, 2022, at 6:56 PM, Dario Fertonani <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> Any feedback? This is very easy to reproduce and happens on every single x86 
> machine, with tens of B210 devices around the world. The command line in my 
> original message gives problems even when 25% of the USB throughput is 
> removed by forcing "sc12" format over the default "sc16" format.
> 
> The hope is always that newer drivers don't break the existing systems, which 
> did fail us here.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dario
> 
> 
>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 3:54 PM Dario Fertonani <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm here to report that the "golden standard" for benchmarking the B210 
>> streaming performance is giving us issues with the latest UHD versions.
>> 
>> The following command
>> ./benchmark_rate --rx_channels "0,1" --rx_rate 30720000 --tx_channels "0,1" 
>> --tx_rate 30720000 --duration 120
>> gives flawless output with UHD 3.10.3 and 3.15.0, but orrible output with 
>> UHD 4.1+, with everything else being equal. These results hold on several 
>> x86 machines (Intel i7, i9, Xeon, and AMD Ryzen and Epyc) and with at least 
>> five different B210 devices. In each case, for a given host machine, USB 
>> cable, and B210 device, we compiled UHD from source and saw the results 
>> degrade sharply simply by running the command from the newer folders.
>> 
>> We typically run UHD from Ubuntu packages (3.10.3 for Ubuntu 18, 3.15.0 for 
>> Ubuntu 20, or whatever is in the latest Ubuntu PPA) rather than building it 
>> from source code. We went through the source code route because we saw 
>> issues and wanted to reproduce them with the official "benchmark_rate" 
>> utility, which unfortunately comes only with the source code version. 
>> However, I want to point out that the poor results seen with 
>> "benchmark_rate" are consistent with the poor results of our own code when 
>> built with newer UHD versions.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Dario
>> 
>> 
>> 
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