Re: [PATCH upate] iso transmit cycle skip patch

From: Pieter Palmers
Date: Fri Apr 18 2008 - 14:13:40 EST

I've double-checked it, and it seems to be good. Hence:

Signed-off-by: Pieter Palmers <pieterp@xxxxxxx>

Greets,

Pieter

Stefan Richter wrote:
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:10:59 +0100
From: Pieter Palmers <pieterp@xxxxxxx>
Subject: ieee1394: rawiso: requeue packet for transmission after skipped cycle

As it seems, some host controllers have issues that can cause them to skip cycles now and then when using large packets. I suspect that this is due to DMA not succeeding in time. If the transmit fifo can't contain more than one packet (big packets), the DMA should provide a new packet each cycle (125us). I am under the impression that my current PCI express test system can't guarantee this.

In any case, the patch tries to provide a workaround as follows:
The DMA program descriptors are modified such that when an error occurs, the DMA engine retries the descriptor the next cycle instead of stalling. This way no data is lost. The side effect of this is that packets are sent with one cycle delay. This however might not be that much of a problem for certain protocols (e.g. AM824). If they use padding packets for e.g. rate matching they can drop one of those to resync the streams.

The amount of skips between two userspace wakeups is counted. This number is then propagated to userspace through the upper 16 bits of the 'dropped' parameter. This allows unmodified userspace applications due to the following:
1) libraw simply passes this dropped parameter to the user application
2) the meaning of the dropped parameter is: if it's nonzero, something bad has happened. The actual value of the parameter at this moment does not have a specific meaning.

A libraw client can then retrieve the number of skipped cycles and account for them if needed.
---

Update by Stefan R: Changed patch title (is it OK?) and whitespace.

Pieter, please reply with a Signed-off-by line if the update is OK for
commit. See linux/Documentation/SubmittingPatches for implications of
the sign-off.

drivers/ieee1394/iso.h | 2 ++
drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/ieee1394/raw1394.c | 7 ++++++-
3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux/drivers/ieee1394/iso.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/ieee1394/iso.h
+++ linux/drivers/ieee1394/iso.h
@@ -123,6 +123,8 @@ struct hpsb_iso {
/* how many times the buffer has overflowed or underflowed */
atomic_t overflows;
+ /* how many cycles were skipped for a given context */
+ atomic_t skips;
/* Current number of bytes lost in discarded packets */
int bytes_discarded;
Index: linux/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.c
+++ linux/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.c
@@ -1723,6 +1723,8 @@ struct ohci_iso_xmit {
struct dma_prog_region prog;
struct ohci1394_iso_tasklet task;
int task_active;
+ int last_cycle;
+ atomic_t skips;
u32 ContextControlSet;
u32 ContextControlClear;
@@ -1759,6 +1761,8 @@ static int ohci_iso_xmit_init(struct hps
iso->hostdata = xmit;
xmit->ohci = iso->host->hostdata;
xmit->task_active = 0;
+ xmit->last_cycle = -1;
+ atomic_set(&iso->skips, 0);
dma_prog_region_init(&xmit->prog);
@@ -1856,6 +1860,26 @@ static void ohci_iso_xmit_task(unsigned /* parse cycle */
cycle = le32_to_cpu(cmd->output_last.status) & 0x1FFF;
+ if (xmit->last_cycle > -1) {
+ int cycle_diff = cycle - xmit->last_cycle;
+ int skip;
+
+ /* unwrap */
+ if (cycle_diff < 0) {
+ cycle_diff += 8000;
+ if (cycle_diff < 0)
+ PRINT(KERN_ERR, "bogus cycle diff %d\n",
+ cycle_diff);
+ }
+
+ skip = cycle_diff - 1;
+ if (skip > 0) {
+ DBGMSG("skipped %d cycles without packet loss", skip);
+ atomic_add(skip, &iso->skips);
+ }
+ }
+ xmit->last_cycle = cycle;
+
/* tell the subsystem the packet has gone out */
hpsb_iso_packet_sent(iso, cycle, event != 0x11);
@@ -1943,6 +1967,16 @@ static int ohci_iso_xmit_queue(struct hp
prev->output_last.branchAddress = cpu_to_le32(
dma_prog_region_offset_to_bus(&xmit->prog, sizeof(struct iso_xmit_cmd) * next_i) | 3);
+ /*
+ * Link the skip address to this descriptor itself. This causes a
+ * context to skip a cycle whenever lost cycles or FIFO overruns occur,
+ * without dropping the data at that point the application should then
+ * decide whether this is an error condition or not. Some protocols
+ * can deal with this by dropping some rate-matching padding packets.
+ */
+ next->output_more_immediate.branchAddress =
+ prev->output_last.branchAddress;
+
/* disable interrupt, unless required by the IRQ interval */
if (prev_i % iso->irq_interval) {
prev->output_last.control &= cpu_to_le32(~(3 << 20)); /* no interrupt */
Index: linux/drivers/ieee1394/raw1394.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/ieee1394/raw1394.c
+++ linux/drivers/ieee1394/raw1394.c
@@ -2356,13 +2356,16 @@ static void rawiso_activity_cb(struct hp
static void raw1394_iso_fill_status(struct hpsb_iso *iso,
struct raw1394_iso_status *stat)
{
+ int overflows = atomic_read(&iso->overflows);
+ int skips = atomic_read(&iso->skips);
+
stat->config.data_buf_size = iso->buf_size;
stat->config.buf_packets = iso->buf_packets;
stat->config.channel = iso->channel;
stat->config.speed = iso->speed;
stat->config.irq_interval = iso->irq_interval;
stat->n_packets = hpsb_iso_n_ready(iso);
- stat->overflows = atomic_read(&iso->overflows);
+ stat->overflows = ((skips & 0xFFFF) << 16) | ((overflows & 0xFFFF));
stat->xmit_cycle = iso->xmit_cycle;
}
@@ -2437,6 +2440,8 @@ static int raw1394_iso_get_status(struct
/* reset overflow counter */
atomic_set(&iso->overflows, 0);
+ /* reset skip counter */
+ atomic_set(&iso->skips, 0);
return 0;
}


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