STM32H750 Performance slows down after time

[sqwerize]

Hi!
I have a problem with the canbus gateway project, I have a very good ring buffer that works without delays and transfers data between can1 and can2. All data copying is done through the main while loop where I check the buffers for can1 and can2 to see if there is anything to send and handle it. The project works great, but after 2-3 hours of driving, strange anomalies start to happen... There is a second delay in data transfer, when I press the reset button on the art-pi board, everything returns to normal and works properly for the next 2-3 hours. I thought it might be a buffer overflow problem which can hold 512 messages for each can. However, when I turn off the vehicle and after a minute there are no frames on the bus and I restart the vehicle, the delay is still there... So it's not the buffers' fault. Has anyone encountered such a problem?

[Tesla DeLorean]

I seriously doubt anyone's got an apples-to-apples case for your issue / failure.

If you can't understand what your own code is doing, it's not clear how uninvolved parties are going to know.

Instrument things so you can better understand what's happening internally, and query / probe current state. Perhaps the ability to dump buffer, or memory structures, and reset buffering.

If using dynamic memory look at fragmentation and resource leaking.

[STOne-32]

Dear @sqwerize ,

 

Also check the Clocks used on your system , a long term jitter may affect CAN bus . If possible to share your setup - crystal , PLL etc.

Hope it helps.

STOne-32

[sqwerize]

@STOne-32 @Tesla DeLorean 

Here is screens and my ringbuffer:

 

 

[Tesla DeLorean]

The count++ count-- method of determining capacity/usage is not thread safe

Instrument so you can check if head and tail diverge when count reports as zero.

[mƎALLEm]

Hello,

You need also to check if there were some errors on CAN communication. So activate the error interrupts, check also  TEC and REC counters.

[sqwerize]

Hey, I found a similar problem on another forum, so maybe it's not entirely a canbus problem... 

https://forum.arduino.cc/t/stm32-performance-slowing-down-over-time/1005525

[mƎALLEm]

To my knowledge, we didn't have a such kind of issues from our customers.

The link you provided, the guy is using STM32F103 which is completely different from yours (STM32H750): different architecture, different CAN cell: STM32F103 has bxCAN cell (classical CAN)  while H7 has FDCAN cell were you are using it in CAN-FD mode. This means, most probably it's not related to the CAN HAL driver nor to the CAN cell. But from your usage of it: software of HW.

You need to instrument your code and check the CAN errors. There is no solution off the shelf in this kind of situation.

[Tesla DeLorean]

Add a buffer reset function that clears head, tail, count, to see if that recovers the latency/lag situation.