[Cerowrt-devel] amd ryzen embedded nucs

[Dave Taht]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 4:33 PM Luis E. Garcia <luis at bitamins.net> wrote:
>
> The BIOS it seems that the CPU wasn’t able to use the speed boost in some cases. Single thread performance is where you can see some of the improvements of the fix.

Ah, this...

https://blog.3mdeb.com/2019/2019-02-14-enabling-cpb-on-pcengines-apu2/

And:

https://pcengines.github.io/

http://pcengines.ch/howto.htm#bios

Reflashing the bios needs a serial cable, which I'll dig up. Thx for the steer!

> L
>
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 5:30 PM Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 4:23 PM Luis E. Garcia <luis at bitamins.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > Dave,
>> > Have you upgraded the firmware on your apu2 boxes? The was a performance issue that was fixed a few weeks back.
>>
>> "the firmware" - do you mean openwrt? or the bios? link?
>>
>> I would be *delighted* to be able to shape inbound on those boxes to
>> nearly ~1gbit. On the other hand it would
>> run me out of motivation to try and make a quad core shaper work....
>> (not that I have a lot of motivation, since
>> it's been a year since I last tried, and it was pretty invasive....
>>
>> I really liked the new "listification" work going on in mainline.
>> Still, my dream was to be rid of mirred entirely, and
>> to be able to do:
>>
>> tc qdisc add dev eth0 ingress cake bandwidth X
>>
>> or rather
>>
>> tc qdisc add dev eth0 ingress mq bandwidth X
>> tc qdisc add dev eth0 ingress handle 1:1 cake
>> tc qdisc add dev eth0 ingress handle 1:2 cake
>> ...
>>
>> Which looked possible to fall out of that work (but haven't checked in a year)
>>
>>
>> > Regards,
>> > Luis
>> >
>> > On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 5:15 PM Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> since we run the apu2 out of cpu on inbound shaping, there are some
>> >> new ryzen boxes appearing. Here's one....
>> >>
>> >> https://www.amd.com/system/files/documents/R1000-product-brief.pdf
>> >>
>> >> http://asrock.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com/Download/e-catalog/iBOX-R1000.pdf
>> >>
>> >> I don't know why it uses realtek ethernet as the soc has 10Gbit
>> >> capable ethernet onboard.
>> >>
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