From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Wen Gong <wgong@codeaurora.org>
Cc: ath10k@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 5/8] ath10k: disable TX complete indication of htt for sdio
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 15:02:28 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9tlamcr.fsf@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1567679893-14029-6-git-send-email-wgong@codeaurora.org> (Wen Gong's message of "Thu, 5 Sep 2019 18:38:10 +0800")
Wen Gong <wgong@codeaurora.org> writes:
> Tx complete message from firmware cost bus bandwidth of sdio, and bus
> bandwidth is the bollteneck of throughput, it will effect the bandwidth
> occupancy of data packet of TX and RX.
TBH I'm not enthuastic about this, this feels an ugly hack. And it adds
yet another module parameter which I detest.
> This patch disable TX complete indication from firmware for htt data
> packet, it results in significant performance improvement on TX path.
So how much does this feature improve through exactly? Do you have any
numbers?
> The downside of this patch is ath10k will not know the TX status of
> the data packet for poor signal situation. Although upper network stack
> or application layer have retry mechanism, the retry will be later than
> ath10k get the TX fail status if not disable TX complete.
I don't understand this description. What's the difference in practise
from user's point of view?
But I think this patch should dropped from the patchset and revisited
after rest of the patches are applied.
--
Kalle Valo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-21 12:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-05 10:38 [PATCH v5 0/8] ath10k: improve throughout of tcp/udp TX/RX of sdio Wen Gong
2019-09-05 10:38 ` [PATCH v5 1/8] ath10k: adjust skb length in ath10k_sdio_mbox_rx_packet Wen Gong
2019-09-12 13:46 ` Kalle Valo
2019-09-12 14:02 ` Nicolas Boichat
2019-09-12 14:54 ` Kalle Valo
2019-09-05 10:38 ` [PATCH v5 2/8] ath10k: enable RX bundle receive for sdio Wen Gong
2019-09-21 12:15 ` Kalle Valo
2019-09-05 10:38 ` [PATCH v5 3/8] ath10k: change max RX bundle size from 8 to 32 " Wen Gong
2019-09-23 9:05 ` Kalle Valo
2019-09-24 9:32 ` Wen Gong
2019-09-05 10:38 ` [PATCH v5 4/8] ath10k: add workqueue for RX path of sdio Wen Gong
2019-09-23 9:49 ` Kalle Valo
2019-09-05 10:38 ` [PATCH v5 5/8] ath10k: disable TX complete indication of htt for sdio Wen Gong
2019-09-21 12:02 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2019-09-05 10:38 ` [PATCH v5 6/8] ath10k: add htt TX bundle " Wen Gong
2019-09-05 10:38 ` [PATCH v5 7/8] ath10k: enable alt data of TX path " Wen Gong
2019-09-05 10:38 ` [PATCH v5 8/8] ath10k: enable napi on RX " Wen Gong
2019-09-23 9:22 ` Kalle Valo
2019-09-12 15:39 ` [PATCH v5 0/8] ath10k: improve throughout of tcp/udp TX/RX of sdio Kalle Valo
2019-09-12 17:51 ` Kalle Valo
2019-09-13 3:54 ` Wen Gong
2019-09-20 12:44 ` Kalle Valo
2019-09-23 9:29 ` Kalle Valo
2019-09-24 12:32 ` Wen Gong
2019-09-26 2:33 ` Wen Gong
2019-10-14 11:53 ` Wen Gong
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