[PATCH 1/3] ath11k: Enable threaded NAPI on WCN6750

[Kalle Valo]

Robert Marko <robert.marko at sartura.hr> writes:

> On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 8:46 AM Kalle Valo <kvalo at kernel.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> Manikanta Pubbisetty <quic_mpubbise at quicinc.com> writes:
>>
>> > On 9/2/2022 7:16 PM, Robert Marko wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 3:42 PM Manikanta Pubbisetty
>> >> <quic_mpubbise at quicinc.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> On 9/2/2022 6:50 PM, Robert Marko wrote:
>> >>>> On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 3:18 PM Manikanta Pubbisetty
>> >>>> <quic_mpubbise at quicinc.com> wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Regardless of the chip family, even I feel that the tput changes like
>> >>>>> these should be tested on all the chipsets. Availability of the hardware
>> >>>>> and time are something which are stopping me in testing the changes on
>> >>>>> all supported targets.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> As I said, I had made the changes only to WCN6750 initially (using a
>> >>>>> hw_param). Can we take that approach for now and enable this for other
>> >>>>> targets only if required & upon thorough testing?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I can tell you that on IPQ8074 threaded NAPI really improves perfromance.
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Great. Do you have any test results on IPQ8074?
>> >>
>> >> I dont have full test results, but on Poco F2 Pro as the client @80MHz AX
>> >> I got ~720Mbps compared to ~550Mbps before.
>> >>
>> >> I can tell you that in OpenWrt, we have had it enabled for 6+ months
>> >> at this point
>> >> and its been really good.
>> >>
>> >
>> > That's a significant improvement, great to hear that. We have another
>> > strong reason to have this change in upstream driver.
>>
>> Indeed, thanks Robert. Is the code in openwrt similar as what
>> Manikanta's patch does?
>
> It's actually identical, we are also just calling dev_set_threaded
> before napi_enable.

Nice, even better :)

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