USB: EHCI: Allow users to override 80% max periodic bandwidth

There are cases, when 80% max isochronous bandwidth is too limiting.

For example I have two USB video capture cards which stream uncompressed
video, and to stream full NTSC + PAL videos we'd need

    NTSC 640x480 YUV422 @30fps      ~17.6 MB/s
    PAL  720x576 YUV422 @25fps      ~19.7 MB/s

isoc bandwidth.

Now, due to limited alt settings in capture devices NTSC one ends up
streaming with max_pkt_size=2688  and  PAL with max_pkt_size=2892, both
with interval=1. In terms of microframe time allocation this gives

    NTSC    ~53us
    PAL     ~57us

and together

    ~110us  >  100us == 80% of 125us uframe time.

So those two devices can't work together simultaneously because the'd
over allocate isochronous bandwidth.

80% seemed a bit arbitrary to me, and I've tried to raise it to 90% and
both devices started to work together, so I though sometimes it would be
a good idea for users to override hardcoded default of max 80% isoc
bandwidth.

After all, isn't it a user who should decide how to load the bus? If I
can live with 10% or even 5% bulk bandwidth that should be ok. I'm a USB
newcomer, but that 80% set in stone by USB 2.0 specification seems to be
chosen pretty arbitrary to me, just to serve as a reasonable default.

NOTE 1
~~~~~~

for two streams with max_pkt_size=3072 (worst case) both time
allocation would be 60us+60us=120us which is 96% periodic bandwidth
leaving 4% for bulk and control.  Alan Stern suggested that bulk then
would be problematic (less than 300*8 bittimes left per microframe), but
I think that is still enough for control traffic.

NOTE 2
~~~~~~

Sarah Sharp expressed concern that maxing out periodic bandwidth
could lead to vendor-specific hardware bugs on host controllers, because

> It's entirely possible that you'll run into
> vendor-specific bugs if you try to pack the schedule with isochronous
> transfers.  I don't think any hardware designer would seriously test or
> validate their hardware with a schedule that is basically a violation of
> the USB bus spec (more than 80% for periodic transfers).

So far I've only tested this patch on my HP Mini 5103 with N10 chipset

    kirr@mini:~$ lspci
    00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge
    00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
    00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
    00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
    00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
    00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
    00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
    00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
    00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
    00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
    00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
    00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
    00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02)
    00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
    01:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
    02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8059 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 11)

and the system works stable with 110us/uframe (~88%) isoc bandwith allocated for
above-mentioned isochronous transfers.

NOTE 3
~~~~~~

This feature is off by default. I mean max periodic bandwidth is set to
100us/uframe by default exactly as it was before the patch. So only those of us
who need the extreme settings are taking the risk - normal users who do not
alter uframe_periodic_max sysfs attribute should not see any change at all.

NOTE 4
~~~~~~

I've tried to update documentation in Documentation/ABI/ thoroughly, but
only "TBD" was put into Documentation/usb/ehci.txt -- the text there seems
to be outdated and much needing refreshing, before it could be amended.

Cc: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 100 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-sysfs.c b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-sysfs.c
index 29824a98aec..14ced00ba22 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-sysfs.c
@@ -74,21 +74,117 @@ static ssize_t store_companion(struct device *dev,
 }
 static DEVICE_ATTR(companion, 0644, show_companion, store_companion);
 
+
+/*
+ * Display / Set uframe_periodic_max
+ */
+static ssize_t show_uframe_periodic_max(struct device *dev,
+					struct device_attribute *attr,
+					char *buf)
+{
+	struct ehci_hcd		*ehci;
+	int			n;
+
+	ehci = hcd_to_ehci(bus_to_hcd(dev_get_drvdata(dev)));
+	n = scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%d\n", ehci->uframe_periodic_max);
+	return n;
+}
+
+
+static ssize_t store_uframe_periodic_max(struct device *dev,
+					struct device_attribute *attr,
+					const char *buf, size_t count)
+{
+	struct ehci_hcd		*ehci;
+	unsigned		uframe_periodic_max;
+	unsigned		frame, uframe;
+	unsigned short		allocated_max;
+	unsigned long		flags;
+	ssize_t			ret;
+
+	ehci = hcd_to_ehci(bus_to_hcd(dev_get_drvdata(dev)));
+	if (kstrtouint(buf, 0, &uframe_periodic_max) < 0)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	if (uframe_periodic_max < 100 || uframe_periodic_max >= 125) {
+		ehci_info(ehci, "rejecting invalid request for "
+				"uframe_periodic_max=%u\n", uframe_periodic_max);
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
+	ret = -EINVAL;
+
+	/*
+	 * lock, so that our checking does not race with possible periodic
+	 * bandwidth allocation through submitting new urbs.
+	 */
+	spin_lock_irqsave (&ehci->lock, flags);
+
+	/*
+	 * for request to decrease max periodic bandwidth, we have to check
+	 * every microframe in the schedule to see whether the decrease is
+	 * possible.
+	 */
+	if (uframe_periodic_max < ehci->uframe_periodic_max) {
+		allocated_max = 0;
+
+		for (frame = 0; frame < ehci->periodic_size; ++frame)
+			for (uframe = 0; uframe < 7; ++uframe)
+				allocated_max = max(allocated_max,
+						    periodic_usecs (ehci, frame, uframe));
+
+		if (allocated_max > uframe_periodic_max) {
+			ehci_info(ehci,
+				"cannot decrease uframe_periodic_max becase "
+				"periodic bandwidth is already allocated "
+				"(%u > %u)\n",
+				allocated_max, uframe_periodic_max);
+			goto out_unlock;
+		}
+	}
+
+	/* increasing is always ok */
+
+	ehci_info(ehci, "setting max periodic bandwidth to %u%% "
+			"(== %u usec/uframe)\n",
+			100*uframe_periodic_max/125, uframe_periodic_max);
+
+	if (uframe_periodic_max != 100)
+		ehci_warn(ehci, "max periodic bandwidth set is non-standard\n");
+
+	ehci->uframe_periodic_max = uframe_periodic_max;
+	ret = count;
+
+out_unlock:
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore (&ehci->lock, flags);
+	return ret;
+}
+static DEVICE_ATTR(uframe_periodic_max, 0644, show_uframe_periodic_max, store_uframe_periodic_max);
+
+
 static inline int create_sysfs_files(struct ehci_hcd *ehci)
 {
+	struct device	*controller = ehci_to_hcd(ehci)->self.controller;
 	int	i = 0;
 
 	/* with integrated TT there is no companion! */
 	if (!ehci_is_TDI(ehci))
-		i = device_create_file(ehci_to_hcd(ehci)->self.controller,
-				       &dev_attr_companion);
+		i = device_create_file(controller, &dev_attr_companion);
+	if (i)
+		goto out;
+
+	i = device_create_file(controller, &dev_attr_uframe_periodic_max);
+out:
 	return i;
 }
 
 static inline void remove_sysfs_files(struct ehci_hcd *ehci)
 {
+	struct device	*controller = ehci_to_hcd(ehci)->self.controller;
+
 	/* with integrated TT there is no companion! */
 	if (!ehci_is_TDI(ehci))
-		device_remove_file(ehci_to_hcd(ehci)->self.controller,
-				   &dev_attr_companion);
+		device_remove_file(controller, &dev_attr_companion);
+
+	device_remove_file(controller, &dev_attr_uframe_periodic_max);
 }