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From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Cc: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH update 2] firewire: net: throttle TX queue before running out of tlabels
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:25:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CDFAB10.5050800@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1289710228.8581.16.camel@maxim-laptop>

Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> In fact after lot of testing I see that original patch, 
> '[PATCH 4/4] firewire: net: throttle TX queue before running out of
> tlabels' works the best here.
> With AR fixes, I don't see even a single fwnet_write_complete error on
> ether side.

Well, that version missed that the rx path opened up the tx queue again. I.e.
it did not work as intended.

> However the 'update 2' (maybe update 1 too, didn't test), lowers
> desktop->laptop throughput somewhat.
> (250 vs 227 Mbits/s). I tested this many times.
> 
> Actuall raw troughput possible with UDP stream and ether no throttling
> or higher packets in flight count (I tested 50/30), it 280 Mbits/s.

Good, I will test deeper queues with a few different controllers here.  As
long as we keep a margin to 64 so that other traffic besides IPover1394 still
has a chance to acquire transaction labels, it's OK.

> BTW, I still don't understand fully  why my laptop sends only at 180
> Mbits/s pretty much always regardless of patches or TCP/UDP.

If it is not CPU bound, then it is because Ricoh did not optimize the AR DMA
unit as well as Texas Instruments did.
-- 
Stefan Richter
-=====-==-=- =-== -===-
http://arcgraph.de/sr/

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-14  9:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-07 21:38 [PATCH 0/4] firewire-net updates Stefan Richter
2010-11-07 21:39 ` [PATCH 1/4] firewire: net: count stats.tx_packets and stats.tx_bytes Stefan Richter
2010-11-07 21:40 ` [PATCH 2/4] firewire: net: fix memory leaks Stefan Richter
2010-11-07 21:40 ` [PATCH 3/4] firewire: net: replace lists by counters Stefan Richter
2010-11-07 21:41 ` [PATCH 4/4] firewire: net: throttle TX queue before running out of tlabels Stefan Richter
2010-11-13 12:16   ` [PATCH update] " Stefan Richter
2010-11-13 22:07     ` [PATCH update 2] " Stefan Richter
2010-11-14  4:50       ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-11-14  9:25         ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2010-11-14 11:52           ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-11-14 13:35             ` Stefan Richter
2010-11-15  4:30 ` Remaining problems in firewire-net Maxim Levitsky
2010-11-15  8:01   ` Stefan Richter
2010-11-16  3:31     ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-11-16 15:11       ` Stefan Richter

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