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Wen Gong cfee8793a7 ath10k: enable napi on RX path for sdio
For tcp RX, the quantity of tcp acks to remote is 1/2 of the quantity
of tcp data from remote, then it will have many small length packets
on TX path of sdio bus, then it reduce the RX packets's bandwidth of
tcp.

This patch enable napi on RX path, then the RX packet of tcp will not
feed to tcp stack immeditely from mac80211 since GRO is enabled by
default, it will feed to tcp stack after napi complete, if rx bundle
is enabled, then it will feed to tcp stack one time for each bundle
of RX. For example, RX bundle size is 32, then tcp stack will receive
one large length packet, its length is neary 1500*32, then tcp stack
will send a tcp ack for this large packet, this will reduce the tcp
acks ratio from 1/2 to 1/32. This results in significant performance
improvement for tcp RX.

Tcp rx throughout is 240Mbps without this patch, and it arrive 390Mbps
with this patch. The cpu usage has no obvious difference with and
without NAPI.

call stack for each RX packet on GRO path:
(skb length is about 1500 bytes)
  skb_gro_receive ([kernel.kallsyms])
  tcp4_gro_receive ([kernel.kallsyms])
  inet_gro_receive ([kernel.kallsyms])
  dev_gro_receive ([kernel.kallsyms])
  napi_gro_receive ([kernel.kallsyms])
  ieee80211_deliver_skb ([mac80211])
  ieee80211_rx_handlers ([mac80211])
  ieee80211_prepare_and_rx_handle ([mac80211])
  ieee80211_rx_napi ([mac80211])
  ath10k_htt_rx_proc_rx_ind_hl ([ath10k_core])
  ath10k_htt_rx_pktlog_completion_handler ([ath10k_core])
  ath10k_sdio_napi_poll ([ath10k_sdio])
  net_rx_action ([kernel.kallsyms])
  softirqentry_text_start ([kernel.kallsyms])
  do_softirq ([kernel.kallsyms])

call stack for napi complete and send tcp ack from tcp stack:
(skb length is about 1500*32 bytes)
 _tcp_ack_snd_check ([kernel.kallsyms])
 tcp_v4_do_rcv ([kernel.kallsyms])
 tcp_v4_rcv ([kernel.kallsyms])
 local_deliver_finish ([kernel.kallsyms])
 ip_local_deliver ([kernel.kallsyms])
 ip_rcv_finish ([kernel.kallsyms])
 ip_rcv ([kernel.kallsyms])
 netif_receive_skb_core ([kernel.kallsyms])
 netif_receive_skb_one_core([kernel.kallsyms])
 netif_receive_skb ([kernel.kallsyms])
 netif_receive_skb_internal ([kernel.kallsyms])
 napi_gro_complete ([kernel.kallsyms])
 napi_gro_flush ([kernel.kallsyms])
 napi_complete_done ([kernel.kallsyms])
 ath10k_sdio_napi_poll ([ath10k_sdio])
 net_rx_action ([kernel.kallsyms])
 __softirqentry_text_start ([kernel.kallsyms])
 do_softirq ([kernel.kallsyms])

Tested with QCA6174 SDIO with firmware
WLAN.RMH.4.4.1-00017-QCARMSWP-1.

Signed-off-by: Wen Gong <wgong@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
2019-12-02 11:59:41 +02:00
Documentation dt: bindings: net: add qcom,ath11k.yaml 2019-11-25 14:15:52 +02:00
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drivers ath10k: enable napi on RX path for sdio 2019-12-02 11:59:41 +02:00
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