[PATCH v3 1/1] tty: serial: Use fifo in 8250 console driver
From: Wander Lairson Costa <hidden>
Date: 2021-12-22 11:29:23
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Subsystem:
8250/16?50 (and clone uarts) serial driver, the rest, tty layer and serial drivers · Maintainers:
Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linus Torvalds, Jiri Slaby
Note: I am using a small test app + driver located at [0] for the
problem description. serco is a driver whose write function dispatches
to the serial controller. sertest is a user-mode app that writes n bytes
to the serial console using the serco driver.
While investigating a bug in the RHEL kernel, I noticed that the serial
console throughput is way below the configured speed of 115200 bps in
a HP Proliant DL380 Gen9. I was expecting something above 10KB/s, but
I got 2.5KB/s.
$ time ./sertest -n 2500 /tmp/serco
real 0m0.997s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.997s
With the help of the function tracer, I then noticed the serial
controller was taking around 410us seconds to dispatch one single byte:
$ trace-cmd record -p function_graph -g serial8250_console_write \
./sertest -n 1 /tmp/serco
$ trace-cmd report
| serial8250_console_write() {
0.384 us | _raw_spin_lock_irqsave();
1.836 us | io_serial_in();
1.667 us | io_serial_out();
| uart_console_write() {
| serial8250_console_putchar() {
| wait_for_xmitr() {
1.870 us | io_serial_in();
2.238 us | }
1.737 us | io_serial_out();
4.318 us | }
4.675 us | }
| wait_for_xmitr() {
1.635 us | io_serial_in();
| __const_udelay() {
1.125 us | delay_tsc();
1.429 us | }
...
...
...
1.683 us | io_serial_in();
| __const_udelay() {
1.248 us | delay_tsc();
1.486 us | }
1.671 us | io_serial_in();
411.342 us | }
In another machine, I measured a throughput of 11.5KB/s, with the serial
controller taking between 80-90us to send each byte. That matches the
expected throughput for a configuration of 115200 bps.
This patch changes the serial8250_console_write to use the 16550 fifo
if available. In my benchmarks I got around 25% improvement in the slow
machine, and no performance penalty in the fast machine.
Signed-off-by: Wander Lairson Costa <redacted>
---
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
index 46e2079ad1aa..5805f18520dd 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c@@ -2056,10 +2056,7 @@ static void serial8250_break_ctl(struct uart_port *port, int break_state) serial8250_rpm_put(up); } -/* - * Wait for transmitter & holding register to empty - */ -static void wait_for_xmitr(struct uart_8250_port *up, int bits) +static void wait_for_lsr(struct uart_8250_port *up, int bits) { unsigned int status, tmout = 10000;
@@ -2076,6 +2073,16 @@ static void wait_for_xmitr(struct uart_8250_port *up, int bits) udelay(1); touch_nmi_watchdog(); } +} + +/* + * Wait for transmitter & holding register to empty + */ +static void wait_for_xmitr(struct uart_8250_port *up, int bits) +{ + unsigned int tmout; + + wait_for_lsr(up, bits); /* Wait up to 1s for flow control if necessary */ if (up->port.flags & UPF_CONS_FLOW) {
@@ -3325,6 +3332,35 @@ static void serial8250_console_restore(struct uart_8250_port *up) serial8250_out_MCR(up, UART_MCR_DTR | UART_MCR_RTS); } +/* + * Print a string to the serial port using the device FIFO + * + * It sends fifosize bytes and then waits for the fifo + * to get empty. + */ +static void serial8250_console_fifo_write(struct uart_8250_port *up, + const char *s, unsigned int count) +{ + int i; + const char *end = s + count; + unsigned int fifosize = up->port.fifosize; + bool cr_sent = false; + + while (s != end) { + wait_for_lsr(up, UART_LSR_THRE); + + for (i = 0; i < fifosize && s != end; ++i) { + if (*s == '\n' && !cr_sent) { + serial_out(up, UART_TX, '\r'); + cr_sent = true; + } else { + serial_out(up, UART_TX, *s++); + cr_sent = false; + } + } + } +} + /* * Print a string to the serial port trying not to disturb * any possible real use of the port...
@@ -3340,7 +3376,7 @@ void serial8250_console_write(struct uart_8250_port *up, const char *s, struct uart_8250_em485 *em485 = up->em485; struct uart_port *port = &up->port; unsigned long flags; - unsigned int ier; + unsigned int ier, use_fifo; int locked = 1; touch_nmi_watchdog();
@@ -3372,7 +3408,20 @@ void serial8250_console_write(struct uart_8250_port *up, const char *s, mdelay(port->rs485.delay_rts_before_send); } - uart_console_write(port, s, count, serial8250_console_putchar); + use_fifo = (up->capabilities & UART_CAP_FIFO) && + port->fifosize > 1 && + (serial_port_in(port, UART_FCR) & UART_FCR_ENABLE_FIFO) && + /* + * After we put a data in the fifo, the controller will send + * it regardless of the CTS state. Therefore, only use fifo + * if we don't use control flow. + */ + !(up->port.flags & UPF_CONS_FLOW); + + if (likely(use_fifo)) + serial8250_console_fifo_write(up, s, count); + else + uart_console_write(port, s, count, serial8250_console_putchar); /* * Finally, wait for transmitter to become empty
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