[PATCH 2/3] ath11k: Add multi TX ring support for WCN6750

Kalle Valo kvalo at kernel.org
Fri Sep 2 05:49:24 PDT 2022


Manikanta Pubbisetty <quic_mpubbise at quicinc.com> writes:

> Currently in the case of WCN6750, only one TCL ring is used for TX,
> this is limiting the TX throughput in 160 MHz case, enabling multiple
> TCL rings on WCN6750 has shown an improvement of nearly 300 Mbps in
> the case of TCP TX, therefore add the support of multi TX ring for
> WCN6750.
>
> Currently TCL ring is selected based on CPU ID, this logic cannot be
> applied for WCN6750 as there is chance of out of order TX of packets
> and to avoid this, choose TCL ring based on flow hash so that packets
> of the same flow will end up on same TCL ring. For the same reason,
> TCL ring retry logic is also not applicable for WCN6750.
>
> Also the mapping of TCL, WBM & RBM IDs for WCN6750 is different from
> existing devices. Create a new TCM/WBM/RBM mapping for WCN6750.
>
> Change does not impact existing ath11k devices.

It would also nice to document _why_ it doesn't impact existing (or do
you mean "other"?) devices.

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