Make the class ID a property of the USB driver (rather than a property
of the USB device ID), and allow USB drivers to specify a wildcard ID
for any of the three component IDs (class, subclass, or protocol).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[usb] Select preferred USB device configuration based on driver score
Generate a score for each possible USB device configuration based on
the available driver support, and select the configuration with the
highest score. This will allow us to prefer ECM over RNDIS (for
devices which support both) and will allow us to meaningfully select a
configuration even when we have drivers available for all functions
(e.g. when exposing unused functions via EFI_USB_IO_PROTOCOL).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[smsc75xx] Move RX FIFO overflow message to DBGLVL_EXTRA
RX FIFO overflow is almost inevitable since the (usable) USB2 bus
bandwidth is approximately one quarter of the Ethernet bandwidth.
Avoid flooding the console with RX FIFO overflow messages in a
standard debug build.
With TCP SACK implemented, the RX FIFO overflow no longer causes a
catastrophic drop in throughput. Experimentation shows that HTTP
downloads now progress at a fairly smooth 250Mbps, which is around the
maximum speed attainable for a USB2 NIC.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[smsc75xx] Add driver for SMSC/Microchip LAN75xx USB Ethernet NICs
This driver is functional but any downloads via a TCP-based protocol
tend to perform poorly. The 1Gbps Ethernet line rate is substantially
higher than the 480Mbps (in practice around 280Mbps) provided by USB2,
and the device has only 32kB of internal buffer memory. Our 256kB TCP
receive window therefore rapidly overflows the RX FIFO, leading to
multiple dropped packets (usually within the same TCP window) and
hence a low overall throughput.
Reducing the TCP window size so that the RX FIFO does not overflow
greatly increases throughput, but is not a general-purpose solution.
Further investigation is required to determine how other OSes
(e.g. Linux) cope with this scenario. It is possible that
implementing TCP SACK would provide some benefit.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown