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2 years ago

Debugging testusb problems

Hi all, We are verifying the USB ports on a new design based on the Cyclone V SoC. The port seems to work functionally okay. However, we ran `testusb` (as included in tools/usb) which produced some ...
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2 years ago

Hi Aik Eu,

Thank you pointing out that documentation. It was insightful indeed. We now estimate that the failing tests are indeed not a problem.

However, the documentation lists using an Ethernet gadget as a good method on verifying USB. Coincidentally, this is exactly the reason we started looking into usbtest. When performing benchmarks on our USB device port with Ethernet gadget we are dealing with packet loss. Most notably, packet loss specifically in the direction of device -> host. We are using `iperf3` to perform the benchmark.

[ ID][Role] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5][RX-S]   0.00-125.00 sec   735 MBytes  49.3 Mbits/sec                  receiver
[  8][TX-S]   0.00-125.00 sec  1.00 GBytes  68.9 Mbits/sec   88             sender

This is also visible in network statistics of `ip-tools`.

How would you suggest us to debug this?

Regards,

Thomas