[RFC/RFT 2/2] ath10k: fix Rx aggregation reordering

Kalle Valo kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com
Fri Jun 27 07:17:13 PDT 2014


Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com> writes:

> Firmware doesn't perform Rx reordering so it is
> left to the host driver to do that.
>
> Use mac80211 to perform reordering instead of
> re-inventing the wheel.
>
> This fixes TCP throughput issues in some
> environments (notably Windows stations connecting
> to ath10k AP).
>
> Reported-By: Denton Gentry <denton.gentry at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com>

[...]

> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_rx.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_rx.c
> @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
>  #include "txrx.h"
>  #include "debug.h"
>  #include "trace.h"
> +#include "mac.h"

Why this? At least from a quick search I didn't see any reason to add this.

>  
>  #include <linux/log2.h>
>  
> @@ -1533,10 +1534,95 @@ void ath10k_htt_t2h_msg_handler(struct ath10k *ar, struct sk_buff *skb)
>  	case HTT_T2H_MSG_TYPE_STATS_CONF:
>  		trace_ath10k_htt_stats(skb->data, skb->len);
>  		break;
> +	case HTT_T2H_MSG_TYPE_RX_ADDBA: {
> +		struct ath10k *ar = htt->ar;
> +		struct htt_rx_addba *ev = &resp->rx_addba;
> +		struct ath10k_peer *peer;
> +		struct ath10k_vif *arvif;
> +		u16 info0, tid, peer_id;
> +
> +		info0 = __le32_to_cpu(ev->info0);
> +		tid = MS(info0, HTT_RX_BA_INFO0_TID);
> +		peer_id = MS(info0, HTT_RX_BA_INFO0_PEER_ID);

This event handling is pretty long. I think it would be better to have a
separate function for this event.

> +	case HTT_T2H_MSG_TYPE_RX_DELBA: {
> +		struct ath10k *ar = htt->ar;
> +		struct htt_rx_addba *ev = &resp->rx_addba;
> +		struct ath10k_peer *peer;
> +		struct ath10k_vif *arvif;
> +		u16 info0, tid, peer_id;

And the same for this event.

-- 
Kalle Valo



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