[PATCH 00/12] USB: chipidea: patchset for performance improvement

[peter.chen@freescale.com (Peter Chen)]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 04:02:53PM +0530, victorascroft at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello Peter, 
> 
> On 15-03-19 09:19:11, Peter Chen wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > In this patch set, I add some interfaces for tuning the performance
> > of chipidea usb driver. With this set, the USB performance can be improved
> > at some user cases with suitable parameters. The main changes:
> > 
> > - Interface to tune interrupt threshold control, and set
> > 'Immediate' for default value
> > - The glue layer can disable stream mode according to USB role
> > - Interface to tune AHB burst configuration at SBUSCFG
> > - Interface to tune tx/rx burst size
> > - i.mx changes for achieving better performance, it can reduce
> >   the latecy between bus and USB FIFO, and reduce the overrun
> >   and underrun occurrences, it is useful for the system bus is busy.
> >   we see great improvement for ISO transfer, eg, high resolution
> >   USB camera when the bus is busy.
> > 
> > Below are some test results at imx6sx sdb board
> > (set ehci_hcd.park=3 at bootargs), the tests are done
> > at v4.0 kernel, no other bus loading during the tests,
> > so we have not seen performance change for some use cases.
> > 
> > USB Mass Storage (Host mode)
> > With Patch Set		Without Patch Set
> > R: 26.9 MB/s		27 MB/s
> > W: 25.2 MB/s		24.5 MB/s
> > 
> > 1G USB Ethernet Card
> > With Patch Set		Without Patch Set
> > TX: 186 Mb/s		185 Mb/s
> > RX: 219 Mb/s		216 Mb/s
> > 
> > g_ncm (Device Mode)
> > With Patch Set		Without Patch Set
> > TX: 166MB/s		163MB/s
> > RX: 230MB/s		184MB/s
> > 
> 
> I tested these patches on a Colibri Vybrid VF61. Have not applied the 
> 7th and 11th patch, but, the changes these patches introduce, I added 
> them to our device tree node. These would be  the addition of 
> ahb-burst-config = <0x0> and tx-burst-size-dword = <0x10> and 
> rx-burst-size-dword = <0x10> to the usb node in vfxxx.dtsi file for both 
> the peripheral and host usb nodes.
> 
> I used hdparm and dd for the tests. Some of the readings are below.
> 
> With this patchset applied
> 
> Reads
> hdparm -t --direct /dev/sda
> 
> /dev/sda:
>  Timing O_DIRECT disk reads:  36 MB in  3.05 seconds =  11.80 MB/sec
> 
> Writes
> root at colibri-vf:~# time dd if=/dev/zero bs=128k count=4096
> of=/media/sda1/tmpfile
> 4096+0 records in
> 4096+0 records out
> 
> real    1m11.671s
> user    0m0.010s
> sys     0m10.130s
> 
> USB Client - RNDIS
> 
> root at colibri-vf:~# iperf -c 192.168.1.1
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Client connecting to 192.168.1.1, TCP port 5001
> TCP window size: 43.8 KByte (default)
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> [  3] local 192.168.1.2 port 41317 connected with 192.168.1.1 port 5001
> [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
> [  3]  0.0-10.0 sec   105 MBytes  88.2 Mbits/sec
> 
> Without this patchset applied
> 
> Reads
> hdparm -t --direct /dev/sda
> 
> /dev/sda:
>  Timing O_DIRECT disk reads:  78 MB in  3.06 seconds =  25.50 MB/sec
> 
> Writes
> root at colibri-vf:~# time dd if=/dev/zero bs=128k count=4096
> of=/media/sda1/tmpfil
> 4096+0 records in
> 4096+0 records out
> 
> real    0m43.807s
> user    0m0.050s
> sys     0m9.960s
> 
> USB Client - RNDIS
> 
> root at colibri-vf:~# iperf -c 192.168.1.1
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Client connecting to 192.168.1.1, TCP port 5001
> TCP window size: 43.8 KByte (default)
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> [  3] local 192.168.1.2 port 49857 connected with 192.168.1.1 port 5001
> [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
> [  3]  0.0-10.0 sec   138 MBytes   116 Mbits/sec
> 
> 
> Perhaps I am missing something? I have the ehci_hcd.park=3 set.
> 
> root at colibri-vf:~# cat /proc/cmdline
> ehci_hcd.park=3 ubi.mtd=ubi root=ubi0:rootfs rootfstype=ubifs
> ubi.fm_autoconvert=1 mtdparts=vf610_nfc:128k(vf-bcb)ro,1408k(
> u-boot)ro,512k(u-boot-env),-(ubi) fec_mac= consoleblank=0 console=tty1
> console=ttyLP0,115200n8 mem=256M
> 
> Is there any other parameter or variable I need to set?

Hi Sanchayan,

The dts setting is specific for i.mx6 (maybe i.mx5 is applicate),
and it needs below patch to co-work with it, it is an i.mx
controller specific improvement (not in core).
> >   usb: chipidea: usbmisc_imx: add unburst setting for imx6

Other chipidea SoCs may have optimized parameters than default ones, it
needs to check with IC guys.

Enable stream mode should improve tx performance, you can have a try.

> 
> - Sanchayan
> 
> > Peter Chen (12):
> >   Doc: usb: ci-hdrc-imx: add gadget-itc-setting for binding doc
> >   usb: chipidea: set ITC to 0 for device mode
> >   usb: chipidea: define stream mode disable for both roles
> >   usb: chipidea: imx: add stream mode enable for device mode at
> >     imx6sl/imx6sx
> >   usb: chipidea: introduce ci_platform_config
> >   Doc: usb: ci-hdrc-imx: add ahb-burst-config for binding doc
> >   ARM: imx6: set ahb-burst-config as 0 for USB
> >   usb: chipidea: add ahb burst configuration
> >   usb: chipidea: usbmisc_imx: add unburst setting for imx6
> >   Doc: usb: ci-hdrc-imx: add tx(rx)-burst-config-dword for binding doc
> >   ARM: imx6: change default burst size for USB
> >   usb: chipidea: add burst size configuration interface
> > 
> >  .../devicetree/bindings/usb/ci-hdrc-imx.txt        |  12 +++
> >  arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl.dtsi                     |  12 +++
> >  arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6sl.dtsi                      |   9 ++
> >  arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6sx.dtsi                      |   9 ++
> >  drivers/usb/chipidea/bits.h                        |   7 ++
> >  drivers/usb/chipidea/ci.h                          |   3 +
> >  drivers/usb/chipidea/ci_hdrc_imx.c                 |  14 ++-
> >  drivers/usb/chipidea/core.c                        | 119 +++++++++++++++++++--
> >  drivers/usb/chipidea/host.c                        |   6 +-
> >  drivers/usb/chipidea/usbmisc_imx.c                 |  12 ++-
> >  include/linux/usb/chipidea.h                       |  11 +-
> >  11 files changed, 191 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> > 
> > -- 
> > 1.9.1
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > linux-arm-kernel mailing list
> > linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel
> 

-- 

Best Regards,
Peter Chen