[PATCH 00/11] SDIO support for ath10k

[Alagu Sankar]

Hi Erik,

We will work to have this support mainlined as soon as possible. Would 
appreciate your support
in making sure that the patches do not affect the USB high latency path.

On 02-10-2017 14:32, Erik Stromdahl wrote:
> Hi Alagu,
>
> It is great to see that we are finally about have fully working
> mainline support for QCA9377 SDIO chipsets!
>
> Great job!
>
> On 2017-09-30 19:37, silexcommon at gmail.com wrote:
>> From: Alagu Sankar <alagusankar at silex-india.com>
>>
>> This patchset, generated against master-pending branch, enables a fully
>> functional SDIO interface driver for ath10k.  Patches have been 
>> verified on
>> QCA9377-3 WB396 and Silex's SX-SDCAC reference cards with Station, 
>> Access Point
>> and P2P modes.
>>
>> The driver is verified with the firmware WLAN.TF.1.1.1-00061-QCATFSWPZ-1
>> with the board data from respective SDIO card vendors. Receive 
>> performance
>> matches the QCA reference driver when used with SDIO3.0 enabled 
>> platforms.
>> iperf tests indicate a downlink UDP of 275Mbit/s and TCP of 150Mbit/s
>>
> Can you share any scripts etc. (wrapping hostapd and wpa_supplicant 
> stuff)
> or provide some more info about you test setup?
>
I am not using any specific scripts for this. The standard ones from the 
ath10k configuration page
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/ath10k/configuration 
works just fine with the
NL80211 path.
> I made a quick socat based test on an old laptop (I don't think it has 
> SDIO
> 3.0 support) and I did unfortunately not get the same figures as you 
> did :(
>
If it is SDIO v1.x, then the max bus speed is only 100Mbit/s.  With v2.x 
it is 200Mbit/s and 3.x it is
832 Mbit/s.  Throughput primarily depends on it. We used i.MX6 SoloX 
Sabre SDB platform
which supports SDIO3.x and could see the maximum performance.
>> This patchset differs from the previous high latency patches, 
>> specific to SDIO.
>> HI_ACS_FLAGS_SDIO_REDUCE_TX_COMPL_SET is enabled for HI_ACS. This 
>> instructs the
>> firmware to use HTT_T2H_MSG_TYPE_TX_COMPL_IND for outgoing packets. 
>> Without
>> this flag, the management frames are not sent out by the firmware. 
>> Possibility
>> of management frames being sent via WMI and data frames through the 
>> reduced Tx
>> completion needs to be probed further.
>>
> Ah, so that explains why I couldn't see any messages in the air.
>
>> Further improvements can be done on the transmit path by implementing 
>> packet
>> bundle. Scatter Gather is another area of improvement for both 
>> Transmit and
>> Receive, but may not work on all platforms
>>
>> Known issues: Surprise removal of the card, when the device is in 
>> connected
>> state, delays sdio function remove due to delayed WMI command failures.
>> Existing ath10k framework can not differentiate between a kernel module
>> removal and the surprise removal of teh card.
>>
>> Alagu Sankar (11):
>>    ath10k_sdio: sdio htt data transfer fixes
>>    ath10k_sdio: wb396 reference card fix
>>    ath10k_sdio: DMA bounce buffers for read write
>>    ath10k_sdio: reduce transmit msdu count
>>    ath10k_sdio: use clean packet headers
>>    ath10k_sdio: high latency fixes for beacon buffer
>>    ath10k_sdio: fix rssi indication
>>    ath10k_sdio: common read write
>>    ath10k_sdio: virtual scatter gather for receive
>>    ath10k_sdio: enable firmware crash dump
>>    ath10k_sdio: hif start once addition
>>
>>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c    |  35 ++-
>>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/debug.c   |   3 +
>>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htc.c     |   4 +-
>>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htc.h     |   1 +
>>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_rx.c  |  19 +-
>>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_tx.c  |  24 +-
>>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/hw.c      |   2 +
>>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/hw.h      |   1 +
>>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c     |  31 ++-
>>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/sdio.c    | 398 
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/sdio.h    |  10 +-
>>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi-tlv.c |   2 +-
>>   12 files changed, 403 insertions(+), 127 deletions(-)
>>
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