[PATCH v3] ath10k: move mgmt descriptor limit handle under mgmt_tx
Rajkumar Manoharan
rmanohar at codeaurora.org
Tue Mar 8 04:54:13 PST 2016
On , Michal Kazior wrote:
> On 8 March 2016 at 12:54, Rajkumar Manoharan
> <rmanohar at qti.qualcomm.com> wrote:
> [...]
>> +int ath10k_htt_tx_mgmt_inc_pending(struct ath10k_htt *htt, bool
>> is_mgmt,
>> + bool is_presp)
>> {
>> struct ath10k *ar = htt->ar;
>>
>> lockdep_assert_held(&htt->tx_lock);
>>
>> + if (!is_mgmt)
>> + return 0;
>> +
>
>> if (htt->num_pending_tx >= htt->max_num_pending_tx)
>> return -EBUSY;
>
> This busy here will be hit when you use last tx slot because
> tx_inc_pending() is called before tx_mgmt_inc_pending().
>
Yeah.. now this condition is not needed as
ath10k_htt_tx_mgmt_inc_pending
will be called only when tx_inc_pending succeeds. will remove this.
>
> [...]
>> skb_cb = ATH10K_SKB_CB(msdu);
>> txq = skb_cb->txq;
>> artxq = (void *)txq->drv_priv;
>>
>> - if (unlikely(skb_cb->flags & ATH10K_SKB_F_MGMT) &&
>> - ar->hw_params.max_probe_resp_desc_thres)
>> - limit_mgmt_desc = true;
>> -
>
> Oh wait.. I didn't pay attention before, but this looks rather ugly.
> With this you will actually make the num_pending_mgmt_tx spin
> endlessly upwards on firmware with HTT 3.0 (and uses TX_FRM for mgmt
> tx and TX_COMPL_IND for completions), no?
>
Oops.. num_pending_mgmt_tx should be incremented only for MGMT_TX. Thats
why it is moved out of txrx_tx_unref.
-Rajkumar
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