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From: "Jörg Krause" <joerg.krause@embedded.rocks>
To: "Jérôme Carretero" <cJ-ko@zougloub.eu>,
	"Franky Lin" <franky.lin@broadcom.com>,
	"Wright Feng" <Wright.Feng@cypress.com>
Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: brcmfmac experiment for a specific use case - tx throughput maximization for slow CPU with glomming
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 08:37:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1496299074.13131.3.camel@embedded.rocks> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170524073326.3a16481b@Vantage>

Hi Jérôme,

On Wed, 2017-05-24 at 07:33 -0400, Jérôme Carretero wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I've crippled a Raspberry Pi 3 (1 core, 200 MHz) and observed that the
> glomming feature has a definite impact on TX performance, but it looks
> like at this CPU frequency, the work queue is solicited "too often"
> by brcmf_sdio_trigger_dpc() and glomming is only doing 4 packets at
> once, resulting in maybe a sub-optimal throughput.

I'm experiencing low throughput with a BCM43362 wifi chip attached via
SDIO to an i.MX28 [1,2]. After disabling some Kernel debug features I'm
getting now a TCP throughput of 12.5 Mbps for the wifi interface, which
is still below the throughput I get for the Cubietruck.

> 
> I have a vague idea that deliberately delaying the transmissions so as
> to wait for either a small timeout, or the glomming level has been
> reached, would be something worth exploring.
> But I haven't spent a long time looking at the driver.

If you are in need for any testing I'm willing to help!

[1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg153257.html	
[2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-October/
461137.html

Jörg

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-01  6:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-24 11:33 brcmfmac experiment for a specific use case - tx throughput maximization for slow CPU with glomming Jérôme Carretero
2017-06-01  6:37 ` Jörg Krause [this message]
2017-08-18 11:50   ` Fabio Estevam
2017-08-21 18:09     ` Jörg Krause

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