edeviser wrote on Friday, May 24, 2019:
I am running FreeRTOS+TCP and I would like to decrease the MTU.
Inside the stm32f4x7_eth_conf.h i find this:
#define ETH_RX_BUF_SIZE ETH_MAX_PACKET_SIZE /* buffer size for receive */
ETH_MAX_PACKET_SIZE is defined in stm32f4x7_eth.h to 1536.
Further more in FreeRTOSIPConfig.h i found this:
#define ipconfigNETWORK_MTU 1500
What is the difference between ETH_RX_BUF_SIZE and ipconfigNETWORK_MTU?
Where should I reduce the frame size?
heinbali01 wrote on Friday, May 24, 2019:
I am running FreeRTOS+TCP and I would like to decrease the MTU.
When you are running low on RAM, it is indeed a good idea to decrease MTU.
But please make sure that the peripheral knows that you can not handle packets longer than a certain MTU.
The MTU does not include the size of the Ethernet header, which is 14 bytes long.
So an MTU 0f 1000 bytes will need 1000+14 = 1014 bytes. Sometimes the peripheral will also write a 4-byte Frame Check Sequence into the DMA buffer, so that would make it 1018 bytes.
Here is a very clear picture of a complete Ethernet packet.
ETH_MAX_PACKET_SIZE is defined in stm32f4x7_eth.h to 1536.
The size of ‘1536’ is favourite because it is super well aligned: it is divisible by 32. Which is important when the DMA buffers are cached. A cache line is often 32 bytes long.
Further more in FreeRTOSIPConfig.h i found this:
#define ipconfigNETWORK_MTU 1500
Normally 1500 is the maximum MTU on a LAN. There is a possibility to send Jumbo packets, which may become much longer. Generally, on the Internet, the supported MTU is only 1400 bytes. FreeRTOS+TCP will decrease the MSS (Maximum Segment Size) when the peer is located on the Internet.
What is the difference between ETH_RX_BUF_SIZE and ipconfigNETWORK_MTU?
That should be clear by now: MTU is the nett packet size, without the Ethernet header and FCS. ETH_RX_BUF_SIZE is used to define the size of the DMA buffers.
Where should I reduce the frame size?
So in 3 places:
ipconfigNETWORK_MTUETH_MAX_PACKET_SIZEedeviser wrote on Monday, May 27, 2019:
Hello Hein!
Great to hear from you and thank you for your advices and explanations! I going to test this out, soon!