The commit adds support to throttle the rate of the RX IRQs to a specified
value. The effect is, that no RX IRQs below the time threshold will fire and
therefore the CPU load gets reduced on the host. Trade-off gaming between
cpu load, throughput, overload.
Modular Sculpt 23.10 on S938 as testcase. In brackets the CPU affinity is
denoted.
ipxe (0,0) -> nic_router (1,0) -> Debian VM vbox6 (3,0) and (3,1)
VM: iperf -C X.X.X.X -t 60 -R
iperf server X.X.X.X is outside Sculpt and sends data due to '-R' to VM
Non representative measure points:
cpu load - ipxe - nic_router - iperf throughput
--------------------------------------------------
w/o patch - ~80% - ~50% - ~706 MBit/s - 0 -> throttling off by default on S938
patch 651 - ~20% - ~35% - ~763 MBit/s - 651 -> 0.166ms throttle RX IRQ
patch 5580 - ~15% - ~25% - ~650 MBit/s - 5580 -> 1.4ms throttle RX IRQ
Issue #5149
A bunch of transmit requests received by the Uplink server (nic_router)
are currently added one by one to the ring buffer and every time the hardware
is notified to process each single request.
Instead, add as many as possible transmit requests in the ring buffer of
the hardware and when done trigger the hardware to process the ring.
Additionally, don't receive an "processed" TX IRQ for each element in the
ring, which causes high CPU load.
With this commit the TX IRQs in the ipxe driver for a
iperf -c X.X.X.X -t 60
from within a VM to the outside iperf server is reduced from about
~2'600'000 IRQs to about ~200'000. The overall CPU load for the driver
(when executed alone on CPU 0) is reduced from ~85 percent load to ~45 percent
load.
Issue #5149
during receive the nic_ep may block as long as the guest does not provide
another receive network descriptor. In the meantime, all Genode signals
regarding the network interface, e.g. tx, will be postponed, which may
effect the throughput.
Instead use the nic_ep for rx packets unblocking. Add an notification mechanism
to the e1000 vbox network model, to notify us as soon as the guest added new
receive descriptors in the model.
Issue #5146
For pbxa9, Qemu is started with only 256 MiB for foc but with 768 MiB
for base-hw. By reducing the RAM quota for all start nodes within the
remote scenario, each component gets enough RAM quota to breathe.
When wrongly invoking the run script by specifying a skipped test
as its only TEST_PKGS argument, the run script fails due to a wrong
tar argument order. Let's better reflect this condition to the user
ahead of invoking tar.
With `MAP_FIXED` absent from the mmap(3p) flags, "the implementation uses
addr in an implementation-defined manner to arrive at pa", which may
lead to a mapping at an address diffent to the requested `addr`.
Add `MAP_FIXED` to the mmmap flags to force mapping to the specified
address.
Fixes#5147
Such messages can occur by chance when killing 'echo' while the program
blocks in an IPC call. It gets killed nevertheless. So the message does
not hint at a failure of the test.
In the context of #5138, the timer drivers for NOVA and base-hw had been
changed to support timeouts at a precision of 250 us (from formerly 1 ms).
Adjust the test to the new expected lower bound.
The dynamic buffer allocation increases the RAM demand slightly beyond
1M on seL4. Use 2M, as is already the default in pkg/terminal_crosslink.
Issue #5135
Replace the USB session API by one that provides a devices ROM only,
which contains information about all USB devices available for this client,
as well as methods to acquire and release a single device.
The acquisition of an USB device returns the capability to a device session
that includes a packet stream buffer to communicate control transfers
in between the client and the USB host controller driver. Moreover,
additional methods to acquire and release an USB interface can be used.
The acquisition of an USB interface returns the capability to an interface
session that includes a packet stream buffer to communicate either
bulk, interrupt, or isochronous transfers in between the client and the
USB host controller driver.
This commit implements the API changes in behalf of the Genode C API's
USB server and client side. Addtionally, it provides Usb::Device,
Usb::Interface, and Usb::Endpoint utilities that can be used by native
C++ clients to use the new API and hide the sophisticated packet stream API.
The adaptations necessary target the following areas:
* lx_emul layer for USB host and client side
* Linux USB host controller driver port for PC
* Linux USB client ports: usb_hid_drv and usb_net_drv, additionally
reduce the Linux tasks used inside these drivers
* Native usb_block_drv
* black_hole component
* Port of libusb, including smartcard and usb_webcam driver depending on it
* Port of Qemu XHCI model library, including vbox5 & vbox6 depending on it
* Adapt all run-scripts and drivers_interactive recipes to work
with the new policy rules of the USB host controller driver
Fixgenodelabs/genode#5021
For now this import file is solely there to satisfy the mechansim
in Goa that collects and incorporates import files for used APIs.
Issue genodelabs/goa#81.
The kernel timer used to truncated timeouts to the next lower
millisecond, which not only limits the wakeup accuracy but also results
in situations where a user-level timeout is triggered earlier than
expected. The latter effect results in the observation of a spurious
timeouts and the subsequent programming of another timeout.
The patch solves the problem by preserving the sub-milliseconds bits
in the 'us_to_ticks' implementation(s).
Issue #5142
This patch modifies the mixer's time window allocation by modelling the
drift of the period length over time. This yields a much better
stability of the detected sample rates in the presence of jitter.
Issue #5132
This patch caps the busyness of the rump kernel, which normally calls
sleep with timeouts between 0 and 10 ms even when idle. On Sculpt
running on a x250 laptop, this patch saves 0.4% CPU load, which is
almost the half of the idle load.
Issue #5140
This data structure uses an AVL tree to maintain a time-sorted set of
alarm objects. It supports the use of circular clocks of an bit width.
Issue #5138
The format library is required, otherwise the binary isn't build. This
regression was introduced in
acpica: provide verbose config (issue #5083)
Fixes genodelabs#5136
The package depends on two resources.
- A Nic session should be routed to the nic_router "http" domain make
the HTTP server available from the outside on forwarded port 80.
- A File_system session labeled "webroot" can be routed to any server
by relabeling the session, e.g., to "report" or "config" in parent.
Sculpt deploy exmaple exporting report_fs via HTTP.
<start name="lighttpd" pkg="lighttpd">
<route>
<service name="Nic">
<child name="nic_router" label="http"/>
</service>
<service name="File_system" label="webroot">
<parent label="report"/>
</service>
</route>
</start>
