[PATCH 00/11] SDIO support for ath10k

[Erik Stromdahl]

On 2017-10-04 08:22, Alagu Sankar wrote:
> 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.
> 
I have added the patches in my own ath-repo and I have tested with the
WUSB6100M without any problems.

> 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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