netdev - Re: stmmac / meson8b-dwmac

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Date:   Sun, 24 Feb 2019 16:00:21 +0100
From:   Simon Huelck <simonmail@....de>
To:     Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@...libre.com>,
        Jose Abreu <jose.abreu@...opsys.com>,
        Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@...glemail.com>
Cc:     linux-amlogic@...ts.infradead.org, Gpeppe.cavallaro@...com,
        alexandre.torgue@...com,
        Emiliano Ingrassia <ingrassia@...genesys.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: stmmac / meson8b-dwmac

Am 21.02.2019 um 18:46 schrieb Jerome Brunet:
> On Thu, 2019-02-21 at 18:27 +0100, Simon Huelck wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> this was changed recently, with a patch for the EEE stuff , see here:
>>
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.0-rc7&id=e35e26b26e955c53e61c154ba26b9bb15da6b858
> Hu, I was not aware this finally went through. Good !
> As explained in the patch and by Jose, the GMAC should be using IRQ_LEVEL.
>
> The realtek PHY has EEE enabled by default. Having this enabled generates a
> lot of (Low Power) Interrupts.
>
> Previously, when the GMAC used IRQ_EDGE. Because it is wrong, we would
> eventually miss an IRQ and the interface would just die. Unfortunately, it was
> not that easy find out.
>
> 2 years ago, we just noticed that disabling EEE would make the failure go
> away. Forcing this EEE feature off through DT was merely a work around.
>
> Now that the real cause of the problem is known, there is no reason to keep
> this hack around.
>
> Whether EEE adds a performance penality and why, is another topic.
> As Jose pointed out, you can disable EEE at runtime, using ethtool.
>
> Jerome
>
Hi,


i tested the latest patches of **next-20190222, there were some stmmac
improvements.**

**
**

**For the topic i got , the performance stayed identical.**

**C:\Users\Simon\Downloads\iperf3.6_64bit\iperf3.6_64bit>iperf3.exe -c
10.10.11.1 -i1
warning: Ignoring nonsense TCP MSS 0
Connecting to host 10.10.11.1, port 5201
[  5] local 10.10.11.100 port 50830 connected to 10.10.11.1 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec  78.9 MBytes   661 Mbits/sec
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec  79.1 MBytes   664 Mbits/sec
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec  79.4 MBytes   666 Mbits/sec
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec  34.4 MBytes   288 Mbits/sec
[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec  16.1 MBytes   135 Mbits/sec
[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec  15.8 MBytes   132 Mbits/sec
[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec  14.2 MBytes   120 Mbits/sec
[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec  15.6 MBytes   131 Mbits/sec
[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec  14.9 MBytes   125 Mbits/sec
[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec  15.0 MBytes   126 Mbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   363 MBytes   305 Mbits/sec                  sender
[  5]   0.00-10.04  sec   363 MBytes   303 Mbits/sec                 
receiver

**

**its clearly visible when i activated the other stream for getting
duplex load ... The highest rate also stays alot under the possible
930MBits that i have seen earlier with 4.14.
**

**
**

**the parallel stream reached around 450Mbits , which almost sums up to
660Mbits. This is what i meant when i said that duplex might be broken.
**

**
**

**Connecting to host 10.10.11.100, port 5201
[  5] local 10.10.11.1 port 38658 connected to 10.10.11.100 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec  62.9 MBytes   528 Mbits/sec    0   65.6 KBytes
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec  56.9 MBytes   477 Mbits/sec    0   65.6 KBytes
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec  55.9 MBytes   469 Mbits/sec    0   65.6 KBytes
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec  53.0 MBytes   445 Mbits/sec    0   65.6 KBytes
[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec  54.3 MBytes   455 Mbits/sec    0   65.6 KBytes
[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec  54.8 MBytes   460 Mbits/sec    0   65.6 KBytes
[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec  45.3 MBytes   380 Mbits/sec    0   65.6 KBytes
[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec  51.2 MBytes   429 Mbits/sec    0   65.6 KBytes
[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec  56.1 MBytes   470 Mbits/sec    0   65.6 KBytes
[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec  55.3 MBytes   464 Mbits/sec    0   65.6 KBytes
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   546 MBytes   458 Mbits/sec    0             sender
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   545 MBytes   457 Mbits/sec                 
receiver**

**
**

**regards,**

**Simon
**

**
**