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From: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com>
To: David Jander <david@protonic.nl>
Cc: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>,
	Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>,
	linux-can@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] can: flexcan: Re-write receive path to use MB queue instead of FIFO
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:43:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2928841.hvxjaQ0ECy@ws-stein> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140930091355.770fac72@archvile>

Hello David,

On Tuesday 30 September 2014 09:13:55, David Jander wrote:
> > > Nevertheless, emptying the FIFO in the IRQ handler will still be a big
> > > improvement, since the only thing that could still kill the driver and
> > > cause message loss is interrupt latency, which normally should not be so
> > > high. NAPI scheduling latency is probably much worse, and this is the
> > > biggest issue with the current driver.
> > > 
> > > Any suggestion on what to do?
> > 
> > Get rid of NAPI and use RT-preempt with proper priorities :) But joke aside,
> > which workload does increase the NAPI latency so much, an overrun occurs? I
> > tested CAN bursts on i.MX35 without any loss.
> 
> I have seen overruns on an i.MX6 at only 250kbaud receiving back-to-back
> messages of 1 byte long. I usually test bursts of 10000 messages or more.

Mh, that's odd. I have run several tests a 1MBaud on an i.MX35 with 2 CAN nodes attached each sending bursts of 250 message every 200ms with a total message count of 250000 each. No overruns, losses or message misordering.

> Things get a lot worse if you also happen to have kernel messages output to a
> serial console and plug in an USB device (because there are printk's in the
> EHCI driver inside spin locks with interrupts disabled!!), but that's a
> different story.

Eek. Well, adding quiet to the command line avoids that. IIRC there is even a Kconfig option to disable that announce to kernel log.

Best regards,
Alexander

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-30  7:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-29 12:52 [PATCH v5] can: flexcan: Re-write receive path to use MB queue instead of FIFO David Jander
2014-09-29 13:29 ` Alexander Stein
2014-09-29 14:39   ` David Jander
2014-09-29 15:02     ` Alexander Stein
2014-09-30  7:13       ` David Jander
2014-09-30  7:43         ` Alexander Stein [this message]
2014-10-01  6:29           ` David Jander
2014-10-01  7:11             ` Alexander Stein
2014-10-01  7:15               ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2014-10-01  8:29                 ` Alexander Stein
2014-10-01  9:07                   ` David Jander
2014-10-01  9:19                     ` Alexander Stein
2014-10-01  9:34                       ` David Jander
2014-10-01  9:58                         ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2014-10-06  7:28                           ` David Jander
2014-10-06 10:00                             ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2014-10-06 11:17                               ` David Jander
2014-10-07  9:30                                 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] can: rx-fifo: Increase MB size limit from 32 to 64 David Jander
2014-10-07  9:30                                   ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] can: rx-fifo: Add support for IRQ readout and NAPI poll David Jander
2014-10-07 13:17                                   ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] can: rx-fifo: Increase MB size limit from 32 to 64 Marc Kleine-Budde
2014-10-07 13:27                                     ` David Jander
2014-10-07 14:18                                       ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2014-10-08  9:08                               ` [PATCH v5] can: flexcan: Re-write receive path to use MB queue instead of FIFO David Jander
2014-10-08  9:56                                 ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2014-10-08 10:36                                   ` Alexander Stein
2014-10-08 10:43                                     ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2014-10-08 14:01                                   ` David Jander
2014-10-09 10:37                                     ` David Jander
2014-10-01  9:19               ` David Jander

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