Hey Marcus and Brent,
thanks for suggestions. I'm not working in a VM.
The benchmark tool underpins the behaviour:
If I use the UHD version of the debian distribution, everything seems normal:
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/usr/lib/uhd/examples % ./benchmark_rate --args="address=192.168.10.2"
--rx_rate 20e6 --tx_rate 20e6
linux; GNU C++ version 6.3.0 20170221; Boost_106200; UHD_003.009.005-0-unknown
Creating the usrp device with: address=192.168.10.2...
-- X300 initialization sequence...
-- Determining maximum frame size... 1472 bytes.
-- Setup basic communication...
-- Loading values from EEPROM...
-- Setup RF frontend clocking...
-- Radio 1x clock:200
-- Initialize Radio0 control...
-- Performing register loopback test... pass
-- Initialize Radio1 control...
-- Performing register loopback test... pass
Using Device: Single USRP:
Device: X-Series Device
Mboard 0: X300
RX Channel: 0
RX DSP: 0
RX Dboard: A
RX Subdev: WBXv3 RX+GDB
RX Channel: 1
RX DSP: 1
RX Dboard: B
RX Subdev: WBXv3 RX+GDB
TX Channel: 0
TX DSP: 0
TX Dboard: A
TX Subdev: WBXv3 TX+GDB
TX Channel: 1
TX DSP: 1
TX Dboard: B
TX Subdev: WBXv3 TX+GDB
Setting device timestamp to 0...
Testing receive rate 20.000000 Msps on 1 channels
Testing transmit rate 20.000000 Msps on 1 channels
UUU
Benchmark rate summary:
Num received samples: 200137060
Num dropped samples: 0
Num overflows detected: 0
Num transmitted samples: 200114096
Num sequence errors: 0
Num underflows detected: 3
Num late commands: 0
Num timeouts: 0
Done!
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If I use the the maint version:
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~/gr_prefixes/stable/lib/uhd/examples % ./benchmark_rate
--args="address=192.168.10.2" --rx_rate 20e6 --tx_rate 20e6
linux; GNU C++ version 6.3.0 20170516; Boost_106200;
UHD_003.010.002.000-3-g122bfae1
Creating the usrp device with: address=192.168.10.2...
-- X300 initialization sequence...
-- Determining maximum frame size... 1472 bytes.
-- Setup basic communication...
-- Loading values from EEPROM...
-- Setup RF frontend clocking...
-- Radio 1x clock:200
-- Detecting internal GPSDO.... No GPSDO found
-- [DMA FIFO] Running BIST for FIFO 0... pass (Throughput: 1296.0MB/s)
-- [DMA FIFO] Running BIST for FIFO 1... pass (Throughput: 1299.4MB/s)
-- [RFNoC Radio] Performing register loopback test... pass
-- [RFNoC Radio] Performing register loopback test... pass
-- [RFNoC Radio] Performing register loopback test... pass
-- [RFNoC Radio] Performing register loopback test... pass
-- Performing timer loopback test... pass
-- Performing timer loopback test... pass
Using Device: Single USRP:
Device: X-Series Device
Mboard 0: X300
RX Channel: 0
RX DSP: 0
RX Dboard: A
RX Subdev: WBXv3 RX+GDB
RX Channel: 1
RX DSP: 0
RX Dboard: B
RX Subdev: WBXv3 RX+GDB
TX Channel: 0
TX DSP: 0
TX Dboard: A
TX Subdev: WBXv3 TX+GDB
TX Channel: 1
TX DSP: 0
TX Dboard: B
TX Subdev: WBXv3 TX+GDB
Setting device timestamp to 0...
Testing receive rate 20.000000 Msps on 1 channels
Testing transmit rate 20.000000 Msps on 1 channels
UUUUReceiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
UDOReceiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
UHD Error:
x300 fw communication failure #1
EnvironmentError: IOError: x300 fw poke32 - reply timed out
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
UHD Error:
x300 fw communication failure #2
EnvironmentError: IOError: x300 fw poke32 - reply timed out
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Receiver error: ERROR_CODE_TIMEOUT, continuing...
Benchmark rate summary:
Num received samples: 119843251
Num dropped samples: 3194618
Num overflows detected: 1
Num transmitted samples: 175807996
Num sequence errors: 0
Num underflows detected: 5
Num late commands: 0
Num timeouts: 39
Done!
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Between these tests I did nothing then flashing the X300 with the
appropriate image and doing a power cycle.
@Marcus:
If I use your flowgraph mit UHD 3.9.5, my CPU load is very modest. No
core higher than 15%. Executing the graph with UHD 3.10.2 causes again
100% CPU load on a single core over the entire time.
2017-10-19 23:05 GMT+02:00 Marcus D. Leech via USRP-users
<usrp-users@lists.ettus.com>:
> On 10/19/2017 10:25 AM, Kai-Uwe Storek via USRP-users wrote:
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>> after experiencing some problems (time outs, etc) with the current UHD
>> develop version (master branch) I changed the UHD version to 3.10.2
>> (maint branch, #122bfae).
>>
>> To do so, I just used the prefix recipe gnuradio-stable via pybombs.
>>
>> Now I'm not able to transmit even low bandwidth signals. My setup is
>>
>> - X300 via 1G ethernet
>> - gnuradio (maint branch)
>> - Debian with kernel 4.9.
>>
>> I used a simple flow graph with just a sine source directly connected
>> to the USRP sink block. Even for sample rates below 2MSamples/s one of
>> the cpu core of my Xeon E5-2630 v2 is 100% busy.
>>
>> Observing the cpu load with htop, I recognized that most of the cpu
>> load is red which indicates kernel space activities...
>>
>> After several seconds I finally got many "U"s in the console window.
>>
>> Some ideas how to isolate the problem?
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Kai
>>
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>
> I just constructed the attached flow-graph, and ran it on my ancient Dell
> Latitude laptop:
>
> [mleech@lab ~]$ ./x300_test.py
> linux; GNU C++ version 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-7); Boost_105400;
> UHD_003.010.002.000-3-g122bfae1
>
> -- X300 initialization sequence...
> -- Determining maximum frame size... 4320 bytes.
> -- Setup basic communication...
> -- Loading values from EEPROM...
> -- Setup RF frontend clocking...
> -- Radio 1x clock:200
> -- Detecting internal GPSDO.... Found an internal GPSDO: LC_XO, Firmware Rev
> 0.929a
> -- [DMA FIFO] Running BIST for FIFO 0... pass (Throughput: 1290.6MB/s)
> -- [DMA FIFO] Running BIST for FIFO 1... pass (Throughput: 1309.7MB/s)
> -- [RFNoC Radio] Performing register loopback test... pass
> -- [RFNoC Radio] Performing register loopback test... pass
> -- [RFNoC Radio] Performing register loopback test... pass
> -- [RFNoC Radio] Performing register loopback test... pass
> -- Performing timer loopback test... pass
> -- Performing timer loopback test... pass
>
>
> No underruns at all, and CPU was quite modest.
>
>
> Are you running within a VM?
>
>
>
>
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