Alexandru Gagniuc 2184eb2b13 lm4f: Improve read/write endpoint performance
Modify lm4f_ep_read/write_packet() to take advantage of 32-bit and 16-bit
accesses to the USB FIFO, as opposed to using only 8-bit accesses. This
change increases endpoint performance in a number of configurations.

On the host side, we use usb_bulk_bench to test
https://github.com/mrnuke/usb_bulk_bench

With the following invocations:

usb_bulk_bench -d c03e:b007 -a -t 64 -q 32 -e [ep] [-I/-O]

On the device side, we use the usb_bulk_dev example:

https://github.com/mrnuke/libopencm3-examples/tree/stellaris
The example is in: examples/lm4f/stellaris-ek-lm4f120xl/usb_bulk_dev

(This example will be available in libopencm3-examples in the near future)

The endpoints configuration is the following:
* EP1 OUT - interrupt driven RX endpoint
* EP2 IN  - interrupt driven TX endpoint
* EP3 OUT - polled RX endpoint
* EP4 IN  - polled TX endpoint
* EP5 OUT - polled RX endpoint with unaligned buffer
* EP6 IN  - polled TX endpoint with unaligned buffer

We test the speed in each configuration, using different system clock
frequencies. We run the tests once without the patch applied, and once with
the patch applied. The results are given below:

Before patch (numbers in KiB/s):
freq:	80 MHz	57 MHz	40 MHz	30 MHz	20 MHz	16 MHz
EP1	562	562	562	562	562	550
EP2	936	872	812	812	687	625
EP3	1062	890	700	600	562	562
EP4	900	812	812	750	625	562
EP5	1062	890	700	600	562	562
EP6	930	812	812	750	625	562

With patch  (numbers in KiB/s):
freq:	80 MHz	57 MHz	40 MHz	30 MHz	20 MHz	16 MHz
EP1	1062	1062	1062	690	562	562
EP2	1125	936	936	936	870	812
EP3	1062	960	750	750	562	562
EP4	936	936	870	870	770	700
EP5	1062	900	700	630	562	562
EP6	930	930	870	870	740	650

Percent change in speed (*):
freq:	80 MHz	57 MHz	40 MHz	30 MHz	20 MHz	16 MHz
EP1	89.0	89.0	89.0	22.8	0.0	2.2
EP2	20.2	7.3	15.3	15.3	26.6	29.9
EP3	0.0	7.9	7.1	25.0	0.0	0.0
EP4	4.0	15.3	7.1	16.0	23.2	24.6
EP5	0.0	1.1	0.0	5.0	0.0	0.0
EP6	0.0	14.5	7.1	16.0	18.4	15.7

(*) Numbers given as percent change relative to speed before applying this
patch.

We see throughput increases across the board.

Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@gmail.com>
2013-05-20 17:52:33 -05:00
2013-04-19 10:26:01 +09:30
2012-10-29 14:44:37 +01:00
2012-11-13 18:41:31 +10:30
2013-05-10 14:01:16 -07:00

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README
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The libopencm3 project aims to create an open-source firmware library for
various ARM Cortex-M3 microcontrollers.

Currently (at least partly) supported microcontrollers:

 - ST STM32F1 series
 - ST STM32F2 series
 - ST STM32F4 series
 - NXP LPC1311/13/42/43

The library is written completely from scratch based on the vendor datasheets,
programming manuals, and application notes. The code is meant to be used
with a GCC toolchain for ARM (arm-elf or arm-none-eabi), flashing of the
code to a microcontroller can be done using the OpenOCD ARM JTAG software.


Status and API
--------------

The libopencm3 project is currently work in progress. Not all subsystems
of the microcontrollers are supported, yet.

IMPORTANT: The API of the library is NOT yet considered stable! Please do
           not rely on it, yet! Changes to function names, macro names etc.
           can happen at any time without prior notice!

Prerequisites
-------------

Building requires python, and a python YAML module. (Some code is generated)

For Ubuntu
 $ [sudo] apt-get install python-yaml

For Fedora
 $ [sudo] yum install PyYAML

For Windows
 Download and install: 
 msys - sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS/Base/msys-core/msys-1.0.11/MSYS-1.0.11.exe
 Python - http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7/python-2.7.msi (use installer to get the right registry keys for PyYAML)
 PyYAML - http://pyyaml.org/download/pyyaml/PyYAML-3.10.win32-py2.7.exe
 arm-none-eabi toolchain - for example this one https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded
 Run msys shell and set the path without standard Windows paths, so Windows programs such as 'find' won't interfere:
 export PATH="/c//Python27:/c/ARMToolchain/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
 After that you can navigate to the folder where you've extracted libopencm3 and build it.

Building
--------

 $ make

You may want to override the toolchain (e.g., arm-elf or arm-none-eabi):

 $ PREFIX=arm-none-eabi make

For a more verbose build you can use

 $ make V=1


Example projects
----------------

The libopencm3 community has written and is maintaining a huge collection of
examples, displaying the capabilities and uses of the library. You can find all
of them in the libopencm3-examples repository:

https://github.com/libopencm3/libopencm3-examples

Installation
------------

 $ make install

This will install the library into /usr/local. (permissions permitting)

If you want to install it elsewhere, use the following syntax:

 $ make DESTDIR=/opt/libopencm3 install

If you want to attempt to install into your toolchain, use this:

 $ make DETECT_TOOLCHAIN=1 install

Note: If you install this into your toolchain, you don't need to pass
any extra -L or -I flags into your projects.  However, this also means
you must NOT pass any -L or -I flags that point into the toolchain. This
_will_ confuse the linker.  (ie, for summon-arm-toolchain, do NOT pass
-L/home/user/sat/lib) Common symptoms of confusing
the linker are hard faults caused by branches into arm code.
You can use objdump to check for this in your final elf.


Coding style and development guidelines
---------------------------------------

See HACKING.


License
-------

The libopencm3 code is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General
Public License (LGPL), version 3 or later.

See COPYING.GPL3 and COPYING.LGPL3 for details.


Mailing lists
-------------

 * Developer mailing list (for patches and discussions):
   https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libopencm3-devel

 * Commits mailing list (receives one mail per 'git push'):
   https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libopencm3-commits


Website
-------

 http://libopencm3.org
 http://sourceforge.net/projects/libopencm3/

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