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From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>
To: Wen Gong <wgong@qti.qualcomm.com>,
	Wen Gong <wgong@codeaurora.org>,
	"ath10k\@lists.infradead.org" <ath10k@lists.infradead.org>
Cc: "linux-wireless\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 4/7] ath10k: disable TX complete indication of htt for sdio
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:12:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874l29pffy.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86d0eabcc63849efa914f2c14a3cd59f@aptaiexm02f.ap.qualcomm.com>

Wen Gong <wgong@qti.qualcomm.com> writes:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 6:10 PM
>> To: Wen Gong <wgong@qti.qualcomm.com>; Wen Gong
>> <wgong@codeaurora.org>; ath10k@lists.infradead.org
>> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
>> Subject: [EXT] RE: [PATCH 4/7] ath10k: disable TX complete indication of htt
>> for sdio
>> 
>> Wen Gong <wgong@qti.qualcomm.com> writes:
>> 
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: ath10k <ath10k-bounces@lists.infradead.org> On Behalf Of Toke
>> >> Høiland-Jørgensen
>> >> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2019 8:24 PM
>> >> To: Wen Gong <wgong@codeaurora.org>; ath10k@lists.infradead.org
>> >> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
>> >> Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH 4/7] ath10k: disable TX complete indication of
>> htt
>> > When this patch applied, firmware will not indicate tx complete for tx
>> > Data, it only indicate HTT_T2H_MSG_TYPE_TX_CREDIT_UPDATE_IND,
>> > This htt msg will tell how many data tx complete without status(status
>> maybe success/fail).
>> 
>> Ah, so this is basically a counter of how much data is currently queued
>> in the firmware?
> Yes.
>> 
>> >> And could you explain what the credits thing is for, please? :)
>> > For high latency bus chip, all the tx data's content(include ip/udp/tcp
>> header
>> > and payload) will be transfer to firmware's memory via bus.
>> > And firmware has limited memory for tx data, the tx data's content must
>> > Saved in firmware memory before it tx complete, if ath10k transfer tx
>> > data more than the limit, firmware will occur error. The credit is used
>> > to avoid ath10k exceed the limit.
>> 
>> What's a typical limit in the firmware?
> It is 96 data packet in my test. It can changed in firmware code.

Right, I see. Is this counter available in all ath10k firmware, or is it
SDIO only?

I'm asking because this could also be a way of implementing something
like Byte Queue Limits (though I'm not sure how effective it would be).

-Toke

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-22 12:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-20 11:55 [PATCH 0/7] ath10k: improve throughout of tcp/udp TX/RX of sdio Wen Gong
2019-08-20 11:55 ` [PATCH 1/7] ath10k: enable RX bundle receive for sdio Wen Gong
2019-08-27  7:40   ` Nicolas Boichat
2019-08-27  8:02     ` Wen Gong
2019-08-27  8:08       ` Nicolas Boichat
2019-08-28  4:25         ` Wen Gong
2019-08-20 11:55 ` [PATCH 2/7] ath10k: change max RX bundle size from 8 to 32 " Wen Gong
2019-08-20 12:23   ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-08-21  6:01     ` Wen Gong
2019-08-21 10:02       ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-08-27  7:42   ` Nicolas Boichat
2019-08-28  2:31     ` Wen Gong
2019-09-03 16:09   ` Dave Taht
2019-09-04  4:43     ` Wen Gong
2019-09-04 13:34       ` Dave Taht
2019-09-05 10:12         ` Wen Gong
2019-08-20 11:55 ` [PATCH 3/7] ath10k: add workqueue for RX path of sdio Wen Gong
2019-09-04  2:31   ` Wen Gong
2019-08-20 11:55 ` [PATCH 4/7] ath10k: disable TX complete indication of htt for sdio Wen Gong
2019-08-20 12:23   ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-08-21  6:20     ` Wen Gong
2019-08-21 10:10       ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-08-21 10:20         ` Wen Gong
2019-08-22 12:12           ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2019-08-23  2:46             ` Wen Gong
2019-08-23  8:39               ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-08-27  7:56   ` Nicolas Boichat
2019-08-28  4:24     ` Wen Gong
2019-09-04  2:33   ` Wen Gong
2019-08-20 11:55 ` [PATCH 5/7] ath10k: add htt TX bundle " Wen Gong
2019-09-04  2:34   ` Wen Gong
2019-08-20 11:55 ` [PATCH 6/7] ath10k: enable alt data of TX path " Wen Gong
2019-09-04  2:36   ` Wen Gong
2019-08-20 11:55 ` [PATCH 7/7] ath10k: enable napi on RX " Wen Gong
2019-09-04  2:37   ` Wen Gong

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