Re: serial flow control appears broken

[Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>]

On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 13:48 -0700, Lee Howard wrote:
> Here's the output:
> 
>             type: 4
>             line: 1
>             line: 760
>              irq: 3
>            flags: 1358954688
>   xmit_fifo_size: 16
>   custom_divisor: 0
>        baud_base: 115200

OK, the FIFO should be enabled.

What is known:

* The error is a hardware FIFO overrun.
  - observed message is in n_tty due to driver setting TTY_OVERRUN

* The RTS/CTS flow control is not involved
  - this is done only by the ldisc in response to buffer levels
  - you verified crtscts is set
  - you did not observed RTS change when 'overflow error' logged
  - you did observe RTS change when application stopped reading

So this seems to be a latency issue reading the receive
FIFO in the ISR. The current rx FIFO trigger level
should be 8 bytes (UART_FCR_R_TRIG_10) which gives the
ISR 694usec to get the data at 115200bps.

IIRC, in 2.2.X kernels this defaulted to 4 bytes
(TRIG_01) which gave a little more time to service the interrupt.

How does the data rate affect the frequency of the overrun errors?
Does 57600bps make them go away?

--
Paul