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Subject[PATCH] usbnet: improve/fix status interrupt endpoint interval

From 307685fe8e6dfc8181e30167b9c31479332cb22f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Mohr <andim2@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 20:37:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] usbnet: improve/fix status interrupt endpoint interval
tweaking.

- failed to take super-speed into account
- <= full-speed seems to have wrong value (specified as frames [ms],
thus 3 is not suitable to achieve 8ms)
Value 8 now managed to reduce powertop wakeups from ~ 540 to ~ 155
- add detailed docs and question marks about current practice
---
drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)


Found this with MCS7830 on a full-speed USB 1.1 port (Inspiron 8000).
Good to have a rusty notebook with noisy PSU coils, else it would
have taken a lot longer to nail it ;)
Tested on -rc4, checkpath.pl:d.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andim2@users.sourceforge.net>


diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
index 06ee82f..b6e9569 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
@@ -231,8 +231,23 @@ static int init_status (struct usbnet *dev, struct usb_interface *intf)
maxp = usb_maxpacket (dev->udev, pipe, 0);

/* avoid 1 msec chatter: min 8 msec poll rate */
+ /* High/SuperSpeed expresses intervals in microframes
+ * (in logarithmic encoding, PRIOR to encoding in URB)
+ * rather than frames.
+ * Thus, for >= HighSpeed: == X [microframes] * 125us [-> 8ms],
+ * <= FullSpeed: == X [ms] [-> 8ms].
+ * Finally, it's questionable whether we'll even get away unscathed
+ * with doing such rate tweaking at all:
+ * bInterval value is declared as being a hard demand by a device
+ * in order to guarantee having its I/O needs serviced properly...
+ * if we don't do this, then... [overruns], [fire], [apocalypse]?
+ * If this turns out to be problematic, such policy should be moved
+ * to individual drivers (indicate flag to [dis]allow rate tweaking
+ * as tolerated by specific devices).
+ */
period = max ((int) dev->status->desc.bInterval,
- (dev->udev->speed == USB_SPEED_HIGH) ? 7 : 3);
+ ((dev->udev->speed == USB_SPEED_HIGH) ||
+ (dev->udev->speed == USB_SPEED_SUPER)) ? 7 : 8);

buf = kmalloc (maxp, GFP_KERNEL);
if (buf) {
--
1.7.10.4


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