From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
To: Mario.Limonciello@dell.com
Cc: yehezkelshb@gmail.com, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
andreas.noever@gmail.com, michael.jamet@intel.com,
rajmohan.mani@intel.com,
nicholas.johnson-opensource@outlook.com.au, lukas@wunner.de,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, stern@rowland.harvard.edu,
anthony.wong@canonical.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 17/22] thunderbolt: Add initial support for USB4
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 10:54:26 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191004075426.GA2819@lahna.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <06a04bff94494da99c5359a7fb645d19@AUSX13MPC105.AMER.DELL.COM>
On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 02:41:11PM +0000, Mario.Limonciello@dell.com wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 3, 2019 3:00 AM
> > To: Limonciello, Mario
> > Cc: yehezkelshb@gmail.com; linux-usb@vger.kernel.org;
> > andreas.noever@gmail.com; michael.jamet@intel.com;
> > rajmohan.mani@intel.com; nicholas.johnson-opensource@outlook.com.au;
> > lukas@wunner.de; gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; stern@rowland.harvard.edu;
> > anthony.wong@canonical.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 17/22] thunderbolt: Add initial support for USB4
> >
> >
> > [EXTERNAL EMAIL]
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 04:00:55PM +0000, Mario.Limonciello@dell.com wrote:
> > > > It's not even "same location - another meaning", the vendor ID comes from
> > the
> > > > DROM section, so it takes a few internal jumps inside the NVM to find the
> > > > location. One of the "pointers" or section headers will be broken for sure.
> > > >
> > > > And after this, we need to find the NVM in LVFS and it has to pass validation
> > in
> > > > a few other locations. The chances are so low that I'd think it isn't worth
> > > > worrying about it.
> > >
> > > And now I remember why the back of my mind was having this thought of
> > wanting
> > > sysfs attribute in the first place. The multiple jumps means that a lot more of
> > the
> > > NVM has to be dumped to get that data, which slows down fwupd startup
> > significantly.
> >
> > IIRC currently fwupd does two reads of total 128 bytes from the active
> > NVM. Is that really slowing down fwupd startup significantly?
>
> Yeah, I timed it with fwupd. Here's the averages:
>
> Without doing the reads to jump to this it's 0:00.06 seconds to probe a tree of
> Host controller and dock plugged in.
>
> With doing the reads and just host controller:
> 0:04.40 seconds
>
> With doing the reads and host controller and dock plugged in:
> 0:10.73 seconds
OK, it clearly takes time to read them. I wonder if this includes
powering up the controller?
Also if you can get the hw_vendor_id and hw_product_id from the kernel
does that mean you don't need to do the two reads or you still need
those?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-04 7:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-01 11:38 [RFC PATCH 00/22] thunderbolt: Add support for USB4 Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 11:38 ` [RFC PATCH 01/22] thunderbolt: Introduce tb_switch_is_icm() Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 12:10 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-10-01 12:46 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 13:36 ` Mario.Limonciello
2019-10-01 13:48 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 13:50 ` Mario.Limonciello
2019-10-01 13:52 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 11:38 ` [RFC PATCH 02/22] thunderbolt: Log switch route string on config read/write timeout Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 11:38 ` [RFC PATCH 03/22] thunderbolt: Log warning if adding switch fails Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 12:18 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-10-01 12:48 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 11:38 ` [RFC PATCH 04/22] thunderbolt: Make tb_sw_write() take const parameter Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 11:38 ` [RFC PATCH 05/22] thunderbolt: Add helper macros to iterate over switch ports Mika Westerberg
2019-10-02 14:17 ` Oliver Neukum
2019-10-02 14:28 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-06 12:15 ` Lukas Wunner
2019-10-01 11:38 ` [RFC PATCH 06/22] thunderbolt: Add support for lane bonding Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 12:38 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-10-01 12:53 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-02 14:21 ` Oliver Neukum
2019-10-02 14:30 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-03 8:25 ` Oliver Neukum
2019-10-03 8:53 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 11:38 ` [RFC PATCH 07/22] thunderbolt: Add default linking between ports if not provided by DROM Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 12:39 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-10-01 13:14 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 11:38 ` [RFC PATCH 08/22] thunderbolt: Add downstream PCIe port mappings for Alpine and Titan Ridge Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 12:40 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-10-01 13:27 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 11:38 ` [RFC PATCH 09/22] thunderbolt: Convert basic adapter register names to follow the USB4 spec Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 12:41 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-10-01 13:28 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 11:38 ` [RFC PATCH 10/22] thunderbolt: Convert PCIe adapter register names to use USB4 names Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 12:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-10-01 11:38 ` [RFC PATCH 11/22] thunderbolt: Convert DP adapter register names to follow the USB4 spec Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 12:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-10-01 11:38 ` [RFC PATCH 12/22] thunderbolt: Add Display Port CM handshake for Titan Ridge devices Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 12:44 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-10-01 13:30 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 11:38 ` [RFC PATCH 13/22] thunderbolt: Add Display Port adapter pairing and resource management Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 11:38 ` [RFC PATCH 14/22] thunderbolt: Add bandwidth management for Display Port tunnels Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 11:38 ` [RFC PATCH 15/22] thunderbolt: Make tb_find_port() available to other files Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 11:38 ` [RFC PATCH 16/22] thunderbolt: Call tb_eeprom_get_drom_offset() from tb_eeprom_read_n() Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 11:38 ` [RFC PATCH 17/22] thunderbolt: Add initial support for USB4 Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 12:47 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-10-01 13:09 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 14:53 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-10-01 14:59 ` Mario.Limonciello
2019-10-01 15:13 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 15:22 ` Greg KH
2019-10-01 15:32 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 15:07 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 15:19 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-10-01 15:26 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 16:27 ` Oliver Neukum
2019-10-02 8:30 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-02 8:39 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-10-02 8:49 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 17:05 ` Mario.Limonciello
2019-10-01 18:14 ` Mario.Limonciello
2019-10-02 8:39 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-02 15:09 ` Mario.Limonciello
2019-10-02 15:36 ` Yehezkel Bernat
2019-10-02 16:00 ` Mario.Limonciello
2019-10-03 8:00 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-03 14:41 ` Mario.Limonciello
2019-10-04 7:54 ` Mika Westerberg [this message]
2019-10-04 8:07 ` Yehezkel Bernat
2019-10-04 8:19 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-04 11:19 ` Yehezkel Bernat
2019-10-04 14:05 ` Mario.Limonciello
2019-10-04 14:19 ` Mario.Limonciello
2019-10-04 14:21 ` Mika Westerberg
[not found] ` <1570201357.2.0@kellner.me>
2019-10-04 15:16 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-04 15:22 ` Christian Kellner
2019-10-02 8:34 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-02 15:04 ` Mario.Limonciello
2019-10-01 11:38 ` [RFC PATCH 18/22] thunderbolt: Make tb_switch_find_cap() available to other files Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 11:38 ` [RFC PATCH 19/22] thunderbolt: Add support for Time Management Unit Mika Westerberg
2019-10-02 16:52 ` Mani, Rajmohan
2019-10-03 8:01 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 11:38 ` [RFC PATCH 20/22] thunderbolt: Add support for USB tunnels Mika Westerberg
2019-10-03 8:42 ` Oliver Neukum
2019-10-03 8:52 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 11:38 ` [RFC PATCH 21/22] thunderbolt: Update documentation with the USB4 information Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 14:17 ` Mario.Limonciello
2019-10-01 14:21 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 11:38 ` [RFC PATCH 22/22] thunderbolt: Do not start firmware unless asked by the user Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 14:43 ` Mario.Limonciello
2019-10-01 14:58 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 16:53 ` Mario.Limonciello
2019-10-02 8:48 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-10-01 12:49 ` [RFC PATCH 00/22] thunderbolt: Add support for USB4 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-10-01 13:42 ` Mika Westerberg
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