Re: [lwip-users] Slow ping response times

[Mark Lakata]

I'm not sure about the LCP demo code, but the ST demo code for LWIP had a poor implementation where the incoming messages were not being read out correctly from the ethernet hardware FIFO. It assumed one interrupt per message, but if you delay servicing the ISR for a brief time, you may have 2 (or more) messages and only 1 interrupt.

Make sure your input loop drains all ethernet packets, and not just one. And/or make sure your ISR drains the hardware FIFO on each interrupt -- don't just grab one packet.

The code kinda/sorta works like you said (with long delays) because new incoming traffic eventually pushes the backed-up messages through the FIFO. But it gets worse and worse with time as the FIFO gets backed up.

-Mark

On 11/13/2012 10:04 AM, Louis Wells wrote:

Hello,

I just finished porting lwip to my hardware(lcp2468), and after running some initial tests just pinging the board I have ran into an issue.

The first batch of pings I send are usually replied to in a reasonable time(<5 ms), however as I continue to ping the board the response time gets worse and worse. I watched the activity on wireshark, and determined that the board is still responding, it is just taking up to 12 seconds to do so. 

I ran a trace on the board, and it appears that there is not an issue where it is receiving packets too quickly to process them, as I can see it hitting the ISR when the packet is received, moving the packet into the mailbox, and running tcpip_input followed by ip_input before another packet is received. 

I am not sure where to even begin looking for a way to solve this. A little information about my implementation is that I am using this with freertos, I have 1 thread set up for the main tcpip thread, and one thread that handles inputs whenever the emac ISR wakes it. 

If there is anything that I can provide that might give someone some insight please let me know, and thanks in advance for any help.

Louis

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