linux_dsm_epyc7002/Documentation/usb
Kirill Smelkov cc62a7eb63 USB: EHCI: Allow users to override 80% max periodic bandwidth
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% set in stone by USB 2.0 specification seems to be
chosen pretty arbitrary to me, just to serve as a reasonable default.

NOTE 1
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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.  Alan Stern suggested that bulk then
would be problematic (less than 300*8 bittimes left per microframe), but
I think that is still enough for control traffic.

NOTE 2
~~~~~~

Sarah Sharp expressed concern that maxing out periodic bandwidth
could lead to vendor-specific hardware bugs on host controllers, because

> It's entirely possible that you'll run into
> vendor-specific bugs if you try to pack the schedule with isochronous
> transfers.  I don't think any hardware designer would seriously test or
> validate their hardware with a schedule that is basically a violation of
> the USB bus spec (more than 80% for periodic transfers).

So far I've only tested this patch on my HP Mini 5103 with N10 chipset

    kirr@mini:~$ lspci
    00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge
    00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
    00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
    00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
    00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
    00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
    00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
    00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
    00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
    00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
    00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
    00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
    00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02)
    00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
    01:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
    02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8059 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 11)

and the system works stable with 110us/uframe (~88%) isoc bandwith allocated for
above-mentioned isochronous transfers.

NOTE 3
~~~~~~

This feature is off by default. I mean max periodic bandwidth is set to
100us/uframe by default exactly as it was before the patch. So only those of us
who need the extreme settings are taking the risk - normal users who do not
alter uframe_periodic_max sysfs attribute should not see any change at all.

NOTE 4
~~~~~~

I've tried to update documentation in Documentation/ABI/ thoroughly, but
only "TBD" was put into Documentation/usb/ehci.txt -- the text there seems
to be outdated and much needing refreshing, before it could be amended.

Cc: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-07-08 14:51:33 -07:00
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acm.txt USB: small update to Documentation/usb/acm.txt 2007-01-05 12:19:09 -08:00
anchors.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
authorization.txt USB: Fix sysfs paths in documentation 2009-09-23 06:46:41 -07:00
bulk-streams.txt USB: Support for allocating USB 3.0 streams. 2010-05-20 13:21:38 -07:00
callbacks.txt USB: documentation update for the pre_reset method 2011-04-29 17:24:29 -07:00
CREDITS documentation: convert the Documentation directory to UTF-8 2007-05-09 08:58:19 +02:00
dma.txt USB: remove URB_NO_SETUP_DMA_MAP 2010-05-20 13:21:40 -07:00
ehci.txt USB: EHCI: Allow users to override 80% max periodic bandwidth 2011-07-08 14:51:33 -07:00
error-codes.txt USB: check the endpoint type against the pipe type 2010-03-02 14:53:07 -08:00
gadget_hid.txt USB: Documentation: Use correct character in gadget_hid.txt 2011-07-01 14:43:27 -07:00
gadget_multi.txt USB: gadget: g_multi: added documentation and INF files 2010-08-10 14:35:37 -07:00
gadget_printer.txt USB: add Printer Gadget Driver 2008-02-01 14:34:49 -08:00
gadget_serial.txt USB: gadget: g_serial: INF file updated 2010-08-10 14:35:37 -07:00
hotplug.txt USB: Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt: Checkpatch cleanup 2010-08-10 14:35:34 -07:00
iuu_phoenix.txt USB: add iuu_phoenix driver 2008-02-01 14:34:47 -08:00
linux-cdc-acm.inf USB: gadget: g_multi: fixed vendor and product ID in inf files 2011-04-29 16:45:22 -07:00
linux.inf USB: gadget: g_multi: fixed vendor and product ID in inf files 2011-04-29 16:45:22 -07:00
misc_usbsevseg.txt USB: Added driver for a Delcom USB 7-segment LED Display 2008-10-17 14:40:51 -07:00
mtouchusb.txt Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
ohci.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
persist.txt USB: use reset_resume when normal resume fails 2008-07-21 15:16:48 -07:00
power-management.txt USB: use the runtime-PM autosuspend implementation 2010-11-16 14:03:41 -08:00
proc_usb_info.txt USB: teach "devices" file about Wireless and SuperSpeed USB 2010-10-22 10:21:40 -07:00
rio.txt Fix typos in /Documentation : 'T'' 2006-11-30 04:55:36 +01:00
URB.txt Fix typos in Documentation/: 'S' 2006-10-03 22:55:17 +02:00
usb-help.txt USB:Update mailing list information in documentation 2008-03-10 16:42:27 -07:00
usb-serial.txt Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
usbmon.txt USB: usbmon: fix-up docs and text API for sparse ISO 2011-02-04 11:46:57 -08:00
wusb-cbaf uwb: add basic radio manager 2008-11-19 14:46:33 +00:00
WUSB-Design-overview.txt Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00