RE: i.MX8MM Ethernet TX Bandwidth Fluctuations

Hi Dave,

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Taht <redacted>
Sent: 2021年5月17日 20:48
To: Joakim Zhang <redacted>
Cc: Frieder Schrempf <redacted>; dl-linux-imx
[off-list ref]; netdev@vger.kernel.org;
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: i.MX8MM Ethernet TX Bandwidth Fluctuations

On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 3:25 AM Joakim Zhang [off-list ref]
wrote:

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Hi Frieder,

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-----Original Message-----
From: Frieder Schrempf <redacted>
Sent: 2021年5月17日 15:17
To: Joakim Zhang <redacted>; dl-linux-imx
[off-list ref]; netdev@vger.kernel.org;
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: i.MX8MM Ethernet TX Bandwidth Fluctuations

Hi Joakim,

On 13.05.21 14:36, Joakim Zhang wrote:

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Hi Frieder,

For NXP release kernel, I tested on i.MX8MQ/MM/MP, I can reproduce
on

L5.10, and can't reproduce on L5.4.

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According to your description, you can reproduce this issue both
L5.4 and

L5.10? So I need confirm with you.

Thanks for looking into this. I could reproduce this on 5.4 and 5.10
but both kernels were official mainline kernels and **not** from the
linux-imx downstream tree.

Ok.

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Maybe there is some problem in the mainline tree and it got included
in the NXP release kernel starting from L5.10?

No, this much looks like a known issue, it should always exist after adding

AVB support in mainline.

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ENET IP is not a _real_ multiple queues per my understanding, queue 0 is for

best effort. And the queue 1&2 is for AVB stream whose default bandwidth
fraction is 0.5 in driver. (i.e. 50Mbps for 100Mbps and 500Mbps for 1Gbps).
When transmitting packets, net core will select queues randomly, which
caused the tx bandwidth fluctuations. So you can change to use single queue if
you care more about tx bandwidth. Or you can refer to NXP internal
implementation.

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e.g.

--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mq.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mq.dtsi

@@ -916,8 +916,8 @@
                                         <&clk

IMX8MQ_CLK_ENET_PHY_REF>;

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                                clock-names = "ipg", "ahb", "ptp",
                                              "enet_clk_ref",

"enet_out";

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-                               fsl,num-tx-queues = <3>;
-                               fsl,num-rx-queues = <3>;
+                               fsl,num-tx-queues = <1>;
+                               fsl,num-rx-queues = <1>;
                                status = "disabled";
                        };
                };

I hope this can help you :)

Patching out the queues is probably not the right thing.

for starters... Is there BQL support in this driver? It would be helpful to have on
all queues.

There is no BQL support in this driver, and BQL may improve throughput further, but should not be the root cause of this reported issue.

Also if there was a way to present it as two interfaces, rather than one, that
would allow for a specific avb device to be presented.

Or:

Is there a standard means of signalling down the stack via the IP layer (a dscp?
a setsockopt?) that the AVB queue is requested?

AFAIK, AVB is scope of VLAN, so we can queue AVB packets into queue 1&2 based on VLAN-ID.

Best Regards,
Joakim Zhang

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Best Regards,
Joakim Zhang

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Best regards
Frieder

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Best Regards,
Joakim Zhang

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-----Original Message-----
From: Joakim Zhang <redacted>
Sent: 2021年5月12日 19:59
To: Frieder Schrempf <redacted>; dl-linux-imx
[off-list ref]; netdev@vger.kernel.org;
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: RE: i.MX8MM Ethernet TX Bandwidth Fluctuations


Hi Frieder,

Sorry, I missed this mail before, I can reproduce this issue at
my side, I will try my best to look into this issue.

Best Regards,
Joakim Zhang

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-----Original Message-----
From: Frieder Schrempf <redacted>
Sent: 2021年5月6日 22:46
To: dl-linux-imx <redacted>; netdev@vger.kernel.org;
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: i.MX8MM Ethernet TX Bandwidth Fluctuations

Hi,

we observed some weird phenomenon with the Ethernet on our
i.MX8M-Mini boards. It happens quite often that the measured
bandwidth in TX direction drops from its expected/nominal value
to something like 50% (for 100M) or ~67% (for 1G) connections.

So far we reproduced this with two different hardware designs
using two different PHYs (RGMII VSC8531 and RMII KSZ8081), two
different kernel versions (v5.4 and v5.10) and link speeds of 100M and

1G.

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To measure the throughput we simply run iperf3 on the target
(with a short p2p connection to the host PC) like this:

  iperf3 -c 192.168.1.10 --bidir

But even something more simple like this can be used to get the
info (with 'nc -l -p 1122 > /dev/null' running on the host):

  dd if=/dev/zero bs=10M count=1 | nc 192.168.1.10 1122

The results fluctuate between each test run and are sometimes 'good'

(e.g.

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~90 MBit/s for 100M link) and sometimes 'bad' (e.g. ~45 MBit/s
for 100M

link).

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There is nothing else running on the system in parallel. Some
more info is also available in this post: [1].

If there's anyone around who has an idea on what might be the
reason for this, please let me know!
Or maybe someone would be willing to do a quick test on his own

hardware.

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That would also be highly appreciated!

Thanks and best regards
Frieder

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