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authorMichael West <michael.west@ettus.com>2017-03-27 19:22:13 -0700
committerMartin Braun <martin.braun@ettus.com>2017-04-05 17:26:28 -0700
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X300: Change default frame sizes for PCIe to be page aligned for better
performance
Diffstat (limited to 'host')
-rw-r--r--host/lib/usrp/x300/x300_impl.cpp8
-rw-r--r--host/lib/usrp/x300/x300_impl.hpp21
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/host/lib/usrp/x300/x300_impl.cpp b/host/lib/usrp/x300/x300_impl.cpp
index fe422db46..4f3870357 100644
--- a/host/lib/usrp/x300/x300_impl.cpp
+++ b/host/lib/usrp/x300/x300_impl.cpp
@@ -1107,14 +1107,14 @@ uhd::both_xports_t x300_impl::make_transport(
? X300_PCIE_RX_DATA_FRAME_SIZE
: X300_PCIE_MSG_FRAME_SIZE;
- default_buff_args.num_send_frames =
- (xport_type == TX_DATA)
- ? X300_PCIE_DATA_NUM_FRAMES
+ default_buff_args.num_send_frames =
+ (xport_type == TX_DATA)
+ ? X300_PCIE_TX_DATA_NUM_FRAMES
: X300_PCIE_MSG_NUM_FRAMES;
default_buff_args.num_recv_frames =
(xport_type == RX_DATA)
- ? X300_PCIE_DATA_NUM_FRAMES
+ ? X300_PCIE_RX_DATA_NUM_FRAMES
: X300_PCIE_MSG_NUM_FRAMES;
xports.recv = nirio_zero_copy::make(
diff --git a/host/lib/usrp/x300/x300_impl.hpp b/host/lib/usrp/x300/x300_impl.hpp
index 27ea6f40e..14120bd1f 100644
--- a/host/lib/usrp/x300/x300_impl.hpp
+++ b/host/lib/usrp/x300/x300_impl.hpp
@@ -51,15 +51,18 @@ static const size_t X300_RX_SW_BUFF_SIZE_ETH = 0x2000000;//32MiB For a
static const size_t X300_RX_SW_BUFF_SIZE_ETH_MACOS = 0x100000; //1Mib
//The FIFO closest to the DMA controller is 1023 elements deep for RX and 1029 elements deep for TX
-//where an element is 8 bytes. For best throughput ensure that the data frame fits in these buffers.
-//Also ensure that the kernel has enough frames to hold buffered TX and RX data
-static const size_t X300_PCIE_RX_DATA_FRAME_SIZE = 8184; //bytes
-static const size_t X300_PCIE_TX_DATA_FRAME_SIZE = 8184; //bytes
-static const size_t X300_PCIE_DATA_NUM_FRAMES = 2048;
-static const size_t X300_PCIE_MSG_FRAME_SIZE = 256; //bytes
-static const size_t X300_PCIE_MSG_NUM_FRAMES = 64;
-static const size_t X300_PCIE_MAX_CHANNELS = 6;
-static const size_t X300_PCIE_MAX_MUXED_XPORTS = 32;
+//where an element is 8 bytes. The buffers (number of frames * frame size) must be aligned to the
+//memory page size. For the control, we are getting lucky because 64 frames * 256 bytes each aligns
+//with the typical page size of 4096 bytes. Since most page sizes are 4096 bytes or some multiple of
+//that, keep the number of frames * frame size aligned to it.
+static const size_t X300_PCIE_RX_DATA_FRAME_SIZE = 4096; //bytes
+static const size_t X300_PCIE_RX_DATA_NUM_FRAMES = 4096;
+static const size_t X300_PCIE_TX_DATA_FRAME_SIZE = 4096; //bytes
+static const size_t X300_PCIE_TX_DATA_NUM_FRAMES = 4096;
+static const size_t X300_PCIE_MSG_FRAME_SIZE = 256; //bytes
+static const size_t X300_PCIE_MSG_NUM_FRAMES = 64;
+static const size_t X300_PCIE_MAX_CHANNELS = 6;
+static const size_t X300_PCIE_MAX_MUXED_XPORTS = 32;
static const size_t X300_10GE_DATA_FRAME_MAX_SIZE = 8000; // CHDR packet size in bytes
static const size_t X300_1GE_DATA_FRAME_MAX_SIZE = 1472; // CHDR packet size in bytes