ath10k: fix throughput regression in multi client mode
Kalle Valo
kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com
Fri Sep 9 05:07:34 PDT 2016
Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar at qti.qualcomm.com> wrote:
> commit 7a0adc83f34d ("ath10k: improve tx scheduling") is causing
> severe throughput drop in multi client mode. This issue is originally
> reported in veriwave setup with 50 clients with TCP downlink traffic.
> While increasing number of clients, the average throughput drops
> gradually. With 50 clients, the combined peak throughput is decreased
> to 98 Mbps whereas reverting given commit restored it to 550 Mbps.
>
> Processing txqs for every tx completion is causing overhead. Ideally for
> management frame tx completion, pending txqs processing can be avoided.
> The change partly reverts the commit "ath10k: improve tx scheduling".
> Processing pending txqs after all skbs tx completion will yeild enough
> room to burst tx frames.
>
> Fixes: 7a0adc83f34d ("ath10k: improve tx scheduling")
> Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar at qti.qualcomm.com>
Thanks, 1 patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git:
18f53fe0f303 ath10k: fix throughput regression in multi client mode
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