Re: [PATCH] ath10k: Restart xmit queues below low-water mark.

["Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>]

greearb@candelatech.com writes:

> From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
>
> While running tcp upload + download tests with ~200
> concurrent TCP streams, 1-2 processes, and 30 station
> vdevs, I noticed that the __ieee80211_stop_queue was taking
> around 20% of the CPU according to perf-top, which other locking
> taking an additional ~15%.
>
> I believe the issue is that the ath10k driver would unlock the
> txqueue when a single frame could be transmitted, instead of
> waiting for a low water mark.
>
> So, this patch adds a low-water mark that is 1/4 of the total
> tx buffers allowed.
>
> This appears to resolve the performance problem that I saw.
>
> Tested with recent wave-1 ath10k-ct firmware.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt.h    | 1 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_tx.c | 8 ++++++--
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt.h
> index 31c4ddbf45cb..b5634781c0dc 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt.h
> @@ -1941,6 +1941,7 @@ struct ath10k_htt {
>  
>  	u8 target_version_major;
>  	u8 target_version_minor;
> +	bool needs_unlock;
>  	struct completion target_version_received;
>  	u8 max_num_amsdu;
>  	u8 max_num_ampdu;
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_tx.c
> index 9b3c3b080e92..44795d9a7c0c 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_tx.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_tx.c
> @@ -145,8 +145,10 @@ void ath10k_htt_tx_dec_pending(struct ath10k_htt *htt)
>  	lockdep_assert_held(&htt->tx_lock);
>  
>  	htt->num_pending_tx--;
> -	if (htt->num_pending_tx == htt->max_num_pending_tx - 1)
> +	if ((htt->num_pending_tx <= (htt->max_num_pending_tx / 4)) && htt->needs_unlock) {

Why /4? Seems a bit arbitrary?

What's a typical value of max_num_pending_tx?

-Toke