Message-ID: <05652cb3-33cf-9ed9-c5ea-da26fbab2584@quicinc.com>
Date:   Tue, 14 Feb 2023 06:41:34 +0530
From:   Krishna Kurapati PSSNV <quic_kriskura@...cinc.com>
To:     Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>
CC:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <quic_ppratap@...cinc.com>, <quic_jackp@...cinc.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] usb: gadget: ncm: Add support to configure wMaSegmentSize



On 2/14/2023 3:17 AM, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
> This isn't a review per say - just some loose comments.
> 
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 9:57 AM Krishna Kurapati
> <quic_kriskura@...cinc.com> wrote:
>> Currently the NCM driver restricts wMasxSegmentSize that indicates
> 
> there's a number of spelling mistakes, here, and in the commit title
> 
>> the datagram size coming from network layer to 1514. However the
>> spec doesn't have any limitation.
>>
>> Add support to configure this value before configfs symlink is
>> created. Also since the NTB Out/In buffer sizes are fixed at 16384
>> bytes, limit the segment size to an upper cap of 8192 bytes so that
>> at least 2 packets can be aggregated.
> 
Hi Maciej, Thanks for the comments:

> I've experimented with increasing mtu to boost performance before
> (have some half-baked patches/scripts somewhere).
> And while it did improve point-to-point performance, it wasn't
> actually useful for any real world use cases,
> as internet mtu is simply never above 1500.
My use case is actually a P2P connection and data is not strictly 
internet data. So I was trying to change the MTU and max segment size 
both at the same time to increase throughput.
> 
> Note that you cannot simply receive, aggregate (lro/gro) and forward
> aggregated packets without splitting them back up.
> 
> A change like this to be useful would require negotiating some sort of
> gso capabilities between the two devices
> (and thus extending the NCM standard).  I've been meaning to do
> this... but time...
> 
I have very little knowledge of GSO capabilities. Will get back and read 
up on them.
Is it something to do with splitting/aggregation of packets at Phy layer 
(segments of NTB) before giving them back to network stack ?

>> Signed-off-by: Krishna Kurapati <quic_kriskura@...cinc.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_ncm.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ncm.h |  1 +
>>   2 files changed, 56 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_ncm.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_ncm.c
>> index 424bb3b666db..1969e276017f 100644
>> --- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_ncm.c
>> +++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_ncm.c
>> @@ -118,6 +118,12 @@ static inline unsigned ncm_bitrate(struct usb_gadget *g)
>>   /* Delay for the transmit to wait before sending an unfilled NTB frame. */
>>   #define TX_TIMEOUT_NSECS       300000
>>
>> +/*
>> + * Currently the max NTB Buffer size is set to 16384. For atleast 2 packets
>> + * to be aggregated, the size of datagram must at max be 8192.
>> + */
>> +#define MAX_DATAGRAM_SIZE      8192
> 
>  From what I recall, there's a fair bit of overhead, and 8192 x2
> doesn't actually fit in 16384...
> That said... is it reasonable to require 2 to fit?  why? what's wrong
> with 15000?
Thanks for this, I missed the header being present here. I was under the 
impression that we might need to aggregate at least 2 packets. So made 
it (fixed_out_len/2). But seems like we can even put it to 15000 as 
well. Will remove this check in configfs store func.
> 
>> +
>>   #define FORMATS_SUPPORTED      (USB_CDC_NCM_NTB16_SUPPORTED |  \
>>                                   USB_CDC_NCM_NTB32_SUPPORTED)
>>
>> @@ -1440,6 +1446,7 @@ static int ncm_bind(struct usb_configuration *c, struct usb_function *f)
>>           */
>>          if (!ncm_opts->bound) {
>>                  mutex_lock(&ncm_opts->lock);
>> +               ncm_opts->net->mtu = (ncm_opts->max_segment_size - 14);
> 
> this should use a constant, ETH_HLEN probably
Sure, will make this a constant.
> 
>>                  gether_set_gadget(ncm_opts->net, cdev->gadget);
>>                  status = gether_register_netdev(ncm_opts->net);
>>                  mutex_unlock(&ncm_opts->lock);
>> @@ -1484,6 +1491,8 @@ static int ncm_bind(struct usb_configuration *c, struct usb_function *f)
>>
>>          status = -ENODEV;
>>
>> +       ecm_desc.wMaxSegmentSize = ncm_opts->max_segment_size;
>> +
> 
> Curious... wasn't this set previously?

The one set above was MTU size before register net device. This here is 
to update the required segment size to ecm_descriptor before requesting 
ep's and providing descs to composite.

Regards,
Krishna,
> 
>>          /* allocate instance-specific endpoints */
>>          ep = usb_ep_autoconfig(cdev->gadget, &fs_ncm_in_desc);
>>          if (!ep)
>> @@ -1586,11 +1595,56 @@ USB_ETHERNET_CONFIGFS_ITEM_ATTR_QMULT(ncm);
>>   /* f_ncm_opts_ifname */
>>   USB_ETHERNET_CONFIGFS_ITEM_ATTR_IFNAME(ncm);
>>
>> +static ssize_t ncm_opts_max_segment_size_show(struct config_item *item,
>> +                                               char *page)
>> +{
>> +       struct f_ncm_opts *opts = to_f_ncm_opts(item);
>> +       u32 segment_size;
>> +
>> +       mutex_lock(&opts->lock);
>> +       segment_size = opts->max_segment_size;
>> +       mutex_unlock(&opts->lock);
>> +
>> +       return sprintf(page, "%u\n", segment_size);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static ssize_t ncm_opts_max_segment_size_store(struct config_item *item,
>> +                                               const char *page, size_t len)
>> +{
>> +       struct f_ncm_opts *opts = to_f_ncm_opts(item);
>> +       int ret;
>> +       u32 segment_size;
>> +
>> +       mutex_lock(&opts->lock);
>> +       if (opts->refcnt) {
>> +               ret = -EBUSY;
>> +               goto out;
>> +       }
>> +
>> +       ret = kstrtou32(page, 0, &segment_size);
>> +       if (ret)
>> +               goto out;
>> +
>> +       if (segment_size > MAX_DATAGRAM_SIZE) {
>> +               ret = -EINVAL;
>> +               goto out;
>> +       }
>> +
>> +       opts->max_segment_size = segment_size;
>> +       ret = len;
>> +out:
>> +       mutex_unlock(&opts->lock);
>> +       return ret;
>> +}
>> +
>> +CONFIGFS_ATTR(ncm_opts_, max_segment_size);
>> +
>>   static struct configfs_attribute *ncm_attrs[] = {
>>          &ncm_opts_attr_dev_addr,
>>          &ncm_opts_attr_host_addr,
>>          &ncm_opts_attr_qmult,
>>          &ncm_opts_attr_ifname,
>> +       &ncm_opts_attr_max_segment_size,
>>          NULL,
>>   };
>>
>> @@ -1633,6 +1687,7 @@ static struct usb_function_instance *ncm_alloc_inst(void)
>>                  kfree(opts);
>>                  return ERR_CAST(net);
>>          }
>> +       opts->max_segment_size = cpu_to_le16(ETH_FRAME_LEN);
>>          INIT_LIST_HEAD(&opts->ncm_os_desc.ext_prop);
>>
>>          descs[0] = &opts->ncm_os_desc;
>> diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ncm.h b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ncm.h
>> index 5408854d8407..fab99d997476 100644
>> --- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ncm.h
>> +++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ncm.h
>> @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ struct f_ncm_opts {
>>           */
>>          struct mutex                    lock;
>>          int                             refcnt;
>> +       u32                             max_segment_size;
>>   };
>>
>>   #endif /* U_NCM_H */
>> --
>> 2.39.0
>>

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