Return-path: Received: from smtprelay4.synopsys.com ([198.182.47.9]:43995 "EHLO smtprelay.synopsys.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751103AbcGFJad convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2016 05:30:33 -0400 From: Alexey Brodkin To: "fixed-term.Oleksij.Rempel@de.bosch.com" CC: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "anders.darander@gmail.com" , "ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org" , "linux@rempel-privat.de" , "linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-usb@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: ath9k-htc on OHCI -> bogus usb xfer Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 09:30:28 +0000 Message-ID: <1467797356.3086.48.camel@synopsys.com> (sfid-20160706_113037_770483_0597C1E0) References: <1467721137.3144.81.camel@synopsys.com> <577BED2D.7070209@rempel-privat.de> <1467739821.3086.13.camel@synopsys.com> <577C041C.7080905@rempel-privat.de> <1467790987.3086.15.camel@synopsys.com> <577CC035.1000404@de.bosch.com> <1467793848.3086.37.camel@synopsys.com> <577CC3A2.5070607@de.bosch.com> <1467794679.3086.42.camel@synopsys.com> <577CCAB8.90003@de.bosch.com> In-Reply-To: <577CCAB8.90003@de.bosch.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-7" MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi+AKA-Oleksij, On Wed, 2016-07-06 at 11:09 +-0200, fixed-term.Oleksij.Rempel wrote: +AD4- +AD4- On 06.07.2016 10:45, Alexey Brodkin wrote: +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- Hi Oleksij, +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- On Wed, 2016-07-06 at 10:38 +-0200, fixed-term.Oleksij.Rempel wrote: +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- On 06.07.2016 10:32, Alexey Brodkin wrote: +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- Hi Oleksij, +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- On Wed, 2016-07-06 at 10:24 +-0200, fixed-term.Oleksij.Rempel wrote: +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AKA- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- Hm... this Endpoint should be Interrupt, not Bulk. If you search for +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- lsusb of this kind of adapter all of them list EP3 and EP4 as Interrupt. +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- what did went wrong here? Is it not working in USB High Speed mode? +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- Unfortunately as of now on that board EHCI doesn't work. +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- That's not a problem of a particular USB device but something in either +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- ECHI host controller or its integration. I do hope we will fix it sometime soon +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- (this is a development board and USB controller is implemented in FPGA so +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- there's a chance to fix stuff later on). +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- So given only OHCI works on the board I went forward and attempted to use it +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- with Wi-Fi USB dongle. +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- I did some tests for 2 years on OHCI controller on x86. There was no +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- noticable issues. It was even a bit faster then Intels EHCI. I don't +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- think OHCI alone is the source of this problem. +AD4- +AD4- Well I was also surprised how well that dongle works with that board in +AD4- +AD4- OHCI mode. I saw quite consistent +AH4-4-5 Mbit/second rates when doing Speedtest +AD4- +AD4- from my smartphone. So IMHO it's completely usable. Especially on that kind of +AD4- +AD4- HW which has main CPU running at just 100MHz. +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- On other side, so far i know, this adapter claims to provide usb full +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- speed support, (Not only high speed) and may use different usb +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- descriptor for this. May be this is the problem. +AD4- +AD4- So is there something we may do with all that? +AD4- Sure... +AD4- +AD4- This shows that EP4 is Bluk in full speed mode. And it is defined by a +AD4- boot loader of this chip: +AD4- grep -R USB+AF8-FS+AF8-EP4+AF8-ATTRIBUTE +ACo- +AD4- sboot/magpie+AF8-1+AF8-1/sboot/hif/usb/src/usb+AF8-table.c: +AD4- m2BYTE(USB+AF8-FS+AF8-EP4+AF8-ATTRIBUTE, USB+AF8-FS+AF8-EP4+AF8-MAX+AF8-PACKET+AF8-SIZE), +AD4- sboot/magpie+AF8-1+AF8-1/sboot/hif/usb/src/usb+AF8-table.h:+ACM-define +AD4- USB+AF8-FS+AF8-EP4+AF8-ATTRIBUTE+AKAAoACgAKAAoACgAKAAoACgAKAAoACg-bUSB+AF8-EP+AF8-TYPE+AF8-BULK +AD4- sboot/magpie+AF8-1+AF8-1/inc/usb+AF8-table.h:+ACM-define USB+AF8-FS+AF8-EP4+AF8-ATTRIBUTE +AD4- +AKA-bUSB+AF8-EP+AF8-TYPE+AF8-BULK +AD4- target+AF8-firmware/magpie+AF8-fw+AF8-dev/target/inc/k2/usb+AF8-table.h:+ACM-define +AD4- USB+AF8-FS+AF8-EP4+AF8-ATTRIBUTE+AKAAoACgAKAAoACgAKAAoACgAKAAoACg-bUSB+AF8-EP+AF8-TYPE+AF8-BULK +AD4- target+AF8-firmware/magpie+AF8-fw+AF8-dev/target/inc/magpie/usb+AF8-table.h:+ACM-define +AD4- USB+AF8-FS+AF8-EP4+AF8-ATTRIBUTE+AKAAoACgAKAAoACgAKAAoACgAKAAoACg-bUSB+AF8-EP+AF8-TYPE+AF8-BULK +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- So, there are fallowing variants to fix it: +AD4- a) patch full speed usb descriptor in firmware and add usb reinit +AD4- support to the driver. +AD4- b) add support of different EP4 types. +AD4- +AD4- In any case, some one need to implement it... right now i have time only +AD4- for mentoring. That's understood. +AD4- It is hard to say, which solution is better. It will affect performance +AD4- and stability. We will need lots of testing on different HW variants to +AD4- know it. +AD4- May be usb maeling list can give some input here? Let's hope so :) +AD4- Currently we have fallowing issues: +AD4- - if EP4 and EP3 are Interrupt, it works slower on High Speed controller. +AD4- - if EP4 and EP3 are Bulk, the work better on High Speed and brake on +AD4- Super Speed controllers. This adapter support my 64B packets and if we +AD4- have more, fifo of this adapter will overrun. +AD4- - Full Speed is currently unknown field for me, and it looks like it was +AD4- never actually working properly. But given that dongle seem to work fine with muted warning do you think it's fine to continue that way or not? I mean if there's a chance this +ACI-bogus usb xfer+ACI- might affect something during execution? Otherwise if that's just not a crucial problem or not a problem at all may be we may just think how to make this warning not so annoying (in my case I saw never ending flood of those warnings so that basically stopped me from using the board after that warning started to appear. -Alexey