Thomas Schäfer <tschae...@t-online.de> writes: > Am Freitag, 17. Mai 2013, 14:41:20 schrieben Sie: >> Thomas Schäfer <tschae...@t-online.de> writes: >> > Hi, >> > >> > the LTE-stick huawei 3276 (in Germany also alias "Telekom Speedstick >> > LTE III") works well .... > > > One thing is little mysterious. > > The byte-statistics at the interface differ. > > while downloading an iso-image via qmi_wwan ( here with 4G XS Stick W100T) > > RX 733MB > TX 29 MB > > > while downloading the same iso-image via cdc_ncm (Huawei 3276) > > RX 727MB > TX 116MB > > (ignore RX, this difference is only noise ) > > > This in only one example. I did this test after I was surprised about the > high TX-values while "normal surfing" > > The conditions are the same: IPv4, LTE, nearly equal speed, no uncommon > things > while watching with iptraf.
This is expected as a result of the cdc_ncm <=> usbnet design. usbnet does the counting and will sum up every byte in the URB. cdc_ncm not only adds a whole lot of extra framing, it also tries very hard to fill the buffer to its maximum size - zero padding any frame longer than CDC_NCM_MIN_TX_PKT (currently 512). This makes the TX byte counter completely unpredictable. Possibly off by a factor of 100+ compared to the IP payload, depending on the device buffer size and your traffic pattern. The buffer filling may seem strange, but Alexey has explained it several times here on this list. It has to do with device DMA optimizations. Google it or search this list if you want the proper explanation. Bjørn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
