bad performance of aue device when used with nVidia nForce MCP79 USB

Marcus Müller znek at mulle-kybernetik.com
Thu Oct 20 11:44:37 UTC 2011


On 20.10.2011, at 09:11, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:

> Also see "sysctl hw.usb.ehci".

root at creutzfeld:(/home/znek)# sysctl hw.usb.ehci
sysctl: unknown oid 'hw.usb.ehci'

Please note that im on 8.2-STABLE… I suspect hw.usb.ehci is not available here (or is this another bug?)

root at creutzfeld:(/home/znek)# sysctl hw.usb     
hw.usb.no_boot_wait: 0
hw.usb.debug: 0
hw.usb.usb_lang_mask: 255
hw.usb.usb_lang_id: 9
hw.usb.template: 0
hw.usb.power_timeout: 30
hw.usb.no_pf: 0
hw.usb.no_cs_fail: 0

> The Nvidia chipsets are quirked due to what looks like hardware issues. See 
> sys/dev/usb/controller/ehci_pci.c. This affects performance.

I commented out the specific quirks section in ehci_pci.c and now performance is as expected!

I didn't test any other USB devices on this board, yet. But the network device appears to be stable, thus I suspect the quirk setting based on vendor NVIDIA and NVIDIA2 is a bit too far fetched?

For reference, here is my patch:

Index: ehci_pci.c
===================================================================
--- ehci_pci.c	(revision 226546)
+++ ehci_pci.c	(working copy)
@@ -459,6 +459,7 @@
 	}
 
 	/* Doorbell feature workaround */
+/*
 	switch (pci_get_vendor(self)) {
 	case PCI_EHCI_VENDORID_NVIDIA:
 	case PCI_EHCI_VENDORID_NVIDIA2:
@@ -470,7 +471,7 @@
 	default:
 		break;
 	}
-
+*/
 	err = ehci_init(sc);
 	if (!err) {
 		err = device_probe_and_attach(sc->sc_bus.bdev);






Thanks,

  Marcus



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