Re: [PATCH 1/2] ath9k: unify edma and non-edma tx code, improve tx fifo handling

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

  CC [M]  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.o
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c: In function ‘ath_tx_edma_tasklet’:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c:2199:18: warning: ‘txq’ may be used uninitialized in this function

Please don't add warnings, especially not valid ones... :-)

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 01:59:23PM +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> EDMA based chips (AR9380+) have 8 Tx FIFO slots, which are used to fix the
> tx queue start/stop race conditions which have to be worked around for
> earlier chips by keeping the last descriptor in the queue. The current code
> stores all frames that do not fit onto the 8 FIFO slots in a separate
> list. Whenever a FIFO slot is freed up, the next frame (or A-MPDU) from the
> pending queue gets moved to that slot.
> 
> This process is not only inefficient, but also unnecessary. The code can
> be improved visibly by keeping the pending queue fully linked, and moving
> the contents of the entire queue to a FIFO slot as it becomes available.
> 
> This patch makes the necessary changes for that and also merges some code
> that was duplicated for EDMA vs non-EDMA. It changes txq->axq_link to point
> to the last descriptor instead of the link pointer, so that
> ath9k_hw_set_desc_link can be used, which works on all chips.
> 
> With this patch, a small performance increase for non-aggregated traffic
> was observed on AR9380 based embedded hardware.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>

> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
> index 97dd1fa..2bfa843 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c

> @@ -2237,17 +2193,17 @@ void ath_tx_tasklet(struct ath_softc *sc)
>  
>  void ath_tx_edma_tasklet(struct ath_softc *sc)
>  {
> -	struct ath_tx_status txs;
> +	struct ath_tx_status ts;
>  	struct ath_common *common = ath9k_hw_common(sc->sc_ah);
>  	struct ath_hw *ah = sc->sc_ah;
>  	struct ath_txq *txq;
>  	struct ath_buf *bf, *lastbf;
>  	struct list_head bf_head;
>  	int status;
> -	int txok;
>  
> +	spin_lock_bh(&txq->axq_lock);
>  	for (;;) {
> -		status = ath9k_hw_txprocdesc(ah, NULL, (void *)&txs);
> +		status = ath9k_hw_txprocdesc(ah, NULL, (void *)&ts);
>  		if (status == -EINPROGRESS)
>  			break;
>  		if (status == -EIO) {

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