Re: [RFC, PATCH] USB: EHCI: Allow users to override 80% max periodicbandwidth

[Alan Stern]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, Kirill Smelkov wrote:

> There are cases, when 80% max isochronous bandwidth is too limiting.
> 
> For example I have two USB video capture cards which stream uncompressed
> video, and to stream full NTSC + PAL videos we'd need
> 
>     NTSC 640x480 YUV422 @30fps      ~17.6 MB/s
>     PAL  720x576 YUV422 @25fps      ~19.7 MB/s
> 
> isoc bandwidth.
> 
> Now, due to limited alt settings in capture devices NTSC one ends up
> streaming with max_pkt_size=2688  and  PAL with max_pkt_size=2892, both
> with interval=1. In terms of microframe time allocation this gives
> 
>     NTSC    ~53us
>     PAL     ~57us
> 
> and together
> 
>     ~110us  >  100us == 80% of 125us uframe time.
> 
> So those two devices can't work together simultaneously because the'd
> over allocate isochronous bandwidth.
> 
> 80% seemed a bit arbitrary to me, and I've tried to raise it to 90% and
> both devices started to work together, so I though sometimes it would be
> a good idea for users to override hardcoded default of max 80% isoc
> bandwidth.
> 
> After all, isn't it a user who should decide how to load the bus? If I
> can live with 10% or even 5% bulk bandwidth that should be ok. I'm a USB
> newcomer, but that 80% seems to be chosen pretty arbitrary to me, just
> to serve as a reasonable default.

This seems like the sort of feature somebody might reasonably want to 
use -- if they know exactly what they're doing.

> NOTE: for two streams with max_pkt_size=3072 (worst case) both time
> allocation would be 60us+60us=120us which is 96% periodic bandwidth
> leaving 4% for bulk and control. I think this should work too.

At 480 Mb/s, each microframe holds 7500 bytes (less if you count 
bit-stuffing).  4% of that is 300 bytes, which is not enough for a 
512-byte bulk packet.  I think you'd run into trouble trying to do any 
serious bulk transfers on such a tight schedule.

> Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c   |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/usb/host/ehci-sched.c |   17 +++++++----------
>  2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c
> index c606b02..1d36e72 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c
> @@ -112,6 +112,14 @@ static unsigned int hird;
>  module_param(hird, int, S_IRUGO);
>  MODULE_PARM_DESC(hird, "host initiated resume duration, +1 for each 75us\n");
>  
> +/*
> + * max periodic time per microframe
> + * (be careful, USB 2.0 requires it to be 100us = 80% of 125us)
> + */
> +static unsigned int uframe_periodic_max = 100;
> +module_param(uframe_periodic_max, uint, S_IRUGO);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(uframe_periodic_max, "maximum allowed periodic part of a microframe, us");
> +

This probably should be a sysfs attribute rather than a module 
parameter, so that it can be applied to individual buses separately.

>  #define	INTR_MASK (STS_IAA | STS_FATAL | STS_PCD | STS_ERR | STS_INT)
>  
>  /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
> @@ -571,6 +579,14 @@ static int ehci_init(struct usb_hcd *hcd)
>  	hcc_params = ehci_readl(ehci, &ehci->caps->hcc_params);
>  
>  	/*
> +	 * tell user, if using non-standard (80% == 100 usec/uframe) bandwidth
> +	 */
> +	if (uframe_periodic_max != 100)
> +		ehci_info(ehci, "using non-standard max periodic bandwith "
> +				"(%u%% == %u usec/uframe)",
> +				100*uframe_periodic_max/125, uframe_periodic_max);
> +
> +	/*

Check for invalid values.  This should never be less than 100 or 
greater than 125.

>  	 * hw default: 1K periodic list heads, one per frame.
>  	 * periodic_size can shrink by USBCMD update if hcc_params allows.
>  	 */
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-sched.c b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-sched.c
> index d12426f..fb374f2 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-sched.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-sched.c
> @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ periodic_usecs (struct ehci_hcd *ehci, unsigned frame, unsigned uframe)
>  		}
>  	}
>  #ifdef	DEBUG
> -	if (usecs > 100)
> +	if (usecs > uframe_periodic_max)

These changes all seem right.

Alan Stern

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