Re: ehci-hcd affects hda speed

[Alessandro Suardi]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 2:23 AM, Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 18-03-08 01:00, David Brownell wrote:
>
>  > On Monday 17 March 2008, Rene Herman wrote:
>  >> +       case PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA:
>  >> +               if (pdev->device == 0x3104 && pdev->revision >= 0x60) {
>  >
>  > Unless you have specific docs from VIA saying that this register
>  > isn't revision-specific (at least in the sense that all revisions
>  > after 0x60 define that bit in that way), this should probably be a
>  > switch on pdev->revision and just include the known-safe revisions.
>
>  I'm looking at a VIA datasheet which says the revision ID for the "VT6212 /
>  VT6212L PCI USB2.0 Controller" is simply 0x60. The VT61212L I myself owned
>  advertised a revision ID of 0x63 and Lev's VT6212L advertises 0x65.
>
>  The thing is -- you don't necesarily immediately notice this problem. I
>  noticed it earlier on an old system, as did Lev, but even if on a modern
>  system you may not immediately see an IDE throughput drop, you may still
>  have a sucky system.
>
>  With 0x60 documented and 0x63 and 0x65 confirmed as VT6212L, I'd personally
>  still go with >= 0x60 and assume either backwards-compatibility or a "don't
>  care" definition if some later revision were to not define this hack.
>
>
>  > At one point I had a table mapping those revision codes to
>  > specific VIA chips.  Too bad I didn't keep it.  ISTR that the
>  > VT6212 has a newer revision code than the vt8235 southbridge,
>  > and probably not as new as the vt8237 one...
>
>  Some googling seems to indicate that:
>
>  VT6202 = 0x5x (0x50, 0x51 at least)
>  VT6212 = 0x6x (0x60, 0x61, 0x63, 0x65 at least)
>  VT8235 = 0x82
>  VT8237 = 0x86
>  VT*800 = 0x90 (KM800Pro, VN800, K8N800, ...)
>
>  Do you want one with 0x6x? I feel it's very likely that everyone on anything
>  later will then still have a sucky system. Tons of people with VT8235/VT8237
>  around (although not me). Any quick test available for them?
>
>
>  > But otherwise, yes -- that's the kind of patch I'd sign off on
>  > after making this comment a bit more informative about how
>  > that 1 usec sleep time creates an amount of PCI bus hogging.
>
>  Version with 0x6x and the somewhat more expansive comment. I'd like to be
>  able to test VT8235/VT8237 first though...
>
>  Still totally untested ofcourse.
>
>  Rene
>
> commit fd96c2b26339f21a66504cb3f36579bb312a8f3b
>  Author: Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxx>
>  Date:   Tue Mar 18 00:02:16 2008 +0100
>
>     USB: VIA VT6212(L) 10us EHCI sleep time select.
>
>     The VIA VT6212(L) uses a 1us EHCI sleep time by default which hogs
>     the bus bad. Use the 10us EHCI spec value instead as suggested by
>     Lev A. Melnikovsky.
>
>     CC: Lev A. Melnikovsky <melnikovsky@xxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>  diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-pci.c b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-pci.c
>  index 3ba0166..bdc8af9 100644
>  --- a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-pci.c
>  +++ b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-pci.c
>  @@ -152,6 +152,20 @@ static int ehci_pci_setup(struct usb_hcd *hcd)
>                         break;
>                 }
>                 break;
>  +       case PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA:
>  +               if (pdev->device == 0x3104 && (pdev->revision & 0xf0) == 0x60) {
>  +                       u8 tmp;
>  +                       /*
>  +                        * The VT6212 defaults to a 1us EHCI sleep time which
>  +                        * hogs the bus badly. Setting bit 5 of 0x4B sets the
>  +                        * sleep time to the EHCI standard 10us.
>  +                        */
>  +                       pci_read_config_byte(pdev, 0x4b, &tmp);
>  +                       if (tmp & 0x20)
>  +                               break;
>  +                       pci_write_config_byte(pdev, 0x4b, tmp | 0x20);
>  +               }
>  +               break;
>         }
>
>         ehci_reset(ehci);

Works for me on top of 2.6.25-rc6-git2 :) Thanks folks !

Tested-by: Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@xxxxxxxxx>

(going to mention the patch in my Fedora bugzilla entry)

--alessandro

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