Starterware/TMS320C6678: Serial Rapid IO Tput Benchmark example halts

Hi,

I've notified the sw team. Their feedback will be posted here.

Best Regards,
Yordan

Sherry,

The SRIO_TputBenchmarking_evmc6678_C66TestProject should work as instructed in Readme.txt. Are you able to run the loopback example with single board? Which PDK release are you working with? The latest one is here: software-dl.ti.com/.../index_FDS.html

Regards,
Garrett

Processor SDK: processor_sdk_rtos_c667x_2_00_01_07

PDK: pdk_c667x_2_0_0

The same Testproject runs fine on single EVM board and lists the throughput statistics. I suspected that the DIP switch settings on my Break out card (BOC) were incorrect but that is not the case. I ran transportSrioMultiBoardConsumerC6678C66ExampleProject and transportSrioMultiBoardProducerC6678C66ExampleProject through the same BOC and it ran fine.

I have noticed that the testControl.srio_isBoardToBoard variable is not updated to be TRUE after I have changed the value in struct in benchmarking.h. So I have to explicitly assert it again just before it is checked in main()'s if-condition for Ipc_start()... After making this change, the processor will not execute Ipc_start().

if (!testControl.srio_isBoardToBoard)
    {
		/* Initialize the heap in shared memory. Using IPC module to do that */
		Ipc_start ();
    }

Are there any IPC settings missing for multi-board scenario in the cfg file? 

Sherry,

Did you update the define CORE_TO_INITIALIZE_SRIO in benchmarking.h for producer and consumer?

 * For board to board:
 *   RX side EVM (Consumer):
 *     This should be CONSUMER_CORE
 *     .out file to be loaded on core 0.
 *   TX side EVM (Producer):
 *     This should be PRODUCER_CORE,
 *     .out file to be loaded on core 1.
 */
#define CORE_TO_INITIALIZE_SRIO           PRODUCER_CORE

The CORE_TO_INITIALIZE_SRIO is used in testControl structure.

Regards, Garrett

Yes, I made the above mentioned changes in benchmarking.h, each for consumer (Emulator0/core 0) and producer (Emulator1/core 1) code. For clarity, I have two separate projects in my workspace.

I added the following for consumer code header

#define IS_BOARD_TO_BOARD                 TRUE
#define IS_OVER_EXTERNAL_SRIO_SWITCH	FALSE
#define USE_LOOPBACK_MODE                 FALSE
#define CORE_TO_INITIALIZE_SRIO           CONSUMER_CORE // 0X00

for the producer core 1's header and .c code

#define IS_BOARD_TO_BOARD                 TRUE
#define IS_OVER_EXTERNAL_SRIO_SWITCH	FALSE
#define USE_LOOPBACK_MODE                 FALSE
#define CORE_TO_INITIALIZE_SRIO           PRODUCER_CORE

testControl.srio_initCorenum =1;
	if (coreNum == testControl.srio_initCorenum)
	{
		/* Debug Message: */

However, when I put a breakpoint at if condition, testControl.srio_isBoardToBoard has not been turned to TRUE and hence the condition of !FALSE is satisfied and the program goes into Ipc_start(). should it really do so? The board I use is CI2EVMBOC. According to a doc in C:/PDK_DIRECTORY\packages\ti\drv\srio\test\tput_benchmarking\docs, Core 0 of EVM 1 should also be loaded with GEL file. I load the GEL file by right clicking the Emulator1/core0 in Debug mode.

I have found a mistake. When I copied the project into my workspace, I did not edit/remove the existing include Options pointing to the original PDK directory for all .c and .h files in the Build settings.
Benchmarking.c was still looking at location "${PDK_INSTALL_PATH/ti/drv/srio/test/tput_benchmarking/src" and NOT the local copy of benchmarking.h. That's all sorted now.
Thank you for your time.