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From: Markus Uhle <markus.uhle@synergetik.de>
To: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>,
	Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>,
	"linux-can@vger.kernel.org" <linux-can@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Hilfe - Wohin Anfragen bezügl. SocketCAN/FlexCAN
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 14:49:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <552E5E6E.408@synergetik.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <552E5D58.8030906@hartkopp.net>

Thanks for your suggestions.
I will try to increase txqeuelen first and write the result in the 
mailing list.

Am 15.04.2015 um 14:45 schrieb Oliver Hartkopp:
> On 15.04.2015 14:30, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
>> On 04/15/2015 02:23 PM, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
>>> Das ist richtig, diesen Rückgabewert gibt es nicht, da der Treiber 
>>> seine
>>> TX-Queue anhält, falls er keine Pakete mehr aufnehmen kann. Zur Zeit 
>>> ist
>>> im Flexcan Treiber nur eine Queue mit der Tiefe von einem Paket
>>> implementiert. Die Länge der Queue ist per default 10 Pakete. Das 
>>> könnte
>>> Ihre Beobachtung erklären. Vielleicht ist der BCM nicht darauf
>>> ausgelegt, dass nicht alle Pakete in der Queue laden.
>>>
>>> Ich schlage vor, dass Sie Ihre Problembeschreibung auf die Liste posten
>>> und wir dort weiter diskutieren.
>>
>> Doh! Since I put the mailinglist by accident on Cc I'll recap the
>> problem for the audience.
>
> :-)
>
>>
>> Markus is using the flexcan on a imx53. He encounters a problem with the
>> broadcast manager. When registering more than 12 messages (to be send
>> every 100ms) at the BCM, the 13th message delayed and only send every 1
>> to 10 seconds.
>>
>> I suspect the problem may be related with the default queue length of 10
>> CAN frames per interface. The BCM might not handle -ENOBUFS correctly.
>>
>> Markus, try to increase the TX queue length by:
>>
>>      ifconfig can0 txqueuelen 100
>>
>> or 1000.
>
> This would be my suggestion too.
>
> The BCM tries to fulfill the TX cycle as precise as possible.
> When Markus adds 12/13 TX jobs at a time these jobs are very close to 
> each other from CAN frame duration perspective. So the jobs trigger 
> nearly at the same time, generate a pile-up in the tx queue and the tx 
> frames get dropped.
>
> So you can try to stretch the BCM setup in the way that you don't get 
> pileups:
>
> - at creation time (wait between syscalls)
> - by using the two timer values and switch after one frame to the 
> wanted cycle
>
> Or increase the txqueuelen - but you would still have a pile-up of 
> frames which is probably not wanted at the receiver too (processing 
> time issues).
>
> Regards,
> Oliver
>
>>
>> Marc
>>
>



      reply	other threads:[~2015-04-15 13:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <552E55ED.7080904@synergetik.de>
2015-04-15 12:23 ` Hilfe - Wohin Anfragen bezügl. SocketCAN/FlexCAN Marc Kleine-Budde
2015-04-15 12:30   ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2015-04-15 12:45     ` Oliver Hartkopp
2015-04-15 12:49       ` Markus Uhle [this message]

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