netdev - Re: Is this 32-bit NCM?

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Date:	Mon, 1 Dec 2014 02:31:10 +0000
From:	Kevin Zhu <Mingying.Zhu@...iocodes.com>
To:	Enrico Mioso <mrkiko.rs@...il.com>,
	Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>
CC:	Eli Britstein <Eli.Britstein@...iocodes.com>,
	"youtux@...il.com" <youtux@...il.com>,
	"alexxst@...il.com" <alexxst@...il.com>,
	"linux-usb@...r.kernel.org" <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Midge Shaojun Tan" <ShaojunMidge.Tan@...iocodes.com>
Subject: Re: Is this 32-bit NCM?

Sorry for the late reply.

I tried to calculate the offset as what windows did, but it did not help.

Regards,
Kevin

On 12/01/2014 02:36 AM, Enrico Mioso wrote:
> Thank you Bjorn for the help and suggestions.
> These are parameters that the driver ends up choosing:
> /sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/bmNtbFormatsSupported:0x0003
> /sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/dwNtbInMaxSize:131072
> /sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/dwNtbOutMaxSize:16384
> /sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/min_tx_pkt:14848
> /sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/rx_max:16384
> /sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/tx_max:16384
> /sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/tx_timer_usecs:400
> /sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/wNdpInAlignment:4
> /sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/wNdpInDivisor:4
> /sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/wNdpInPayloadRemainder:2
> /sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/wNdpOutAlignment:4
> /sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/wNdpOutDivisor:4
> /sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/wNdpOutPayloadRemainder:2
> /sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/wNtbOutMaxDatagrams:0
>
> Sorry if I did not report them before. If I missed someone in CC please add it
> guys.
> Kevin - after you discovered that the device might handle the offset in a
> different way, have you tried this approach?
>
>
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2014, Bjørn Mork wrote:
>
> ==Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 11:03:24
> ==From: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>
> ==To: Enrico Mioso <mrkiko.rs@...il.com>
> ==Cc: youtux@...il.com, alexxst@...il.com, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
> ==    netdev@...r.kernel.org
> ==Subject: Re: Is this 32-bit NCM?
> ==
> ==Enrico Mioso <mrkiko.rs@...il.com> writes:
> ==
> ==> Ok - we can arrive to some ocnclusions regarding the E3272.
> ==> First of all - the modem seems buggy enough to not be able to handle requests
> ==> for different formats. You need to unplug and re-plug it, but this is onlyan
> ==> impression and is reasonable.
> ==>
> ==> Then - the modem will accept to ndisdup the connection with
> ==> at^ndisdup=1,1,"internet"
> ==> but - if we use huawei_cdc_ncm + cdc_ncm we have no flow handling messages and
> ==> the modem stops here.
> ==> If we use the cdc_ncm 32-bit driver (modified) we get lotfs of
> ==> ^dsflorpt
> ==> that's how it should be.
> ==> So I think we can say that something is changing.
> ==> Then there's the alignment problem you mentioned in your previous reply. And
> ==> this is hard to solve.
> ==> could you try to help me understand where the problem is?
> ==> I feel like we are very close to the solution but something isn't working.
> ==> Or might be just try to change the 16 bit driver?
> ==
> ==If you use a recent version of the driver as a basis, then you get the
> ==CDC NCM NTB parameters in sysfs (if not, then you need to enable
> ==debugging and look in the log for these values).  For example:
> ==
> ==bjorn@...i:~$ grep . /sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/*
> ==/sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/bmNtbFormatsSupported:0x0001
> ==/sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/dwNtbInMaxSize:15360
> ==/sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/dwNtbOutMaxSize:15360
> ==/sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/min_tx_pkt:13824
> ==/sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/rx_max:15360
> ==/sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/tx_max:15360
> ==/sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/tx_timer_usecs:400
> ==/sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/wNdpInAlignment:4
> ==/sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/wNdpInDivisor:1
> ==/sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/wNdpInPayloadRemainder:0
> ==/sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/wNdpOutAlignment:4
> ==/sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/wNdpOutDivisor:32
> ==/sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/wNdpOutPayloadRemainder:0
> ==/sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/wNtbOutMaxDatagrams:32
> ==
> ==
> ==The possible problem I am thinking of is proper handling of the
> ==wNdp*PayloadRemainder values. See section 3.3.4 "NCM Ethernet Frame
> ==Alignment" in the spec.  Which is confusing as hell, but if I understand
> ==it correctly then we are supposed to align the start of the IP packets
> ==(the "payload", _not_ the ethernet frame) to a whole wNdp*Divisor number
> ==as long as the wNdp*PayloadRemainder is 0.
> ==
> ==
> ==Bjørn
> ==
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