[PATCH] wifi: mt76: add tx checksum offload for mt7915, mt7921, mt7981 and mt7986

[Aleksander Jan Bajkowski]

On 10/19/25 20:18, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 10/19/25 09:43, Aleksander Jan Bajkowski wrote:
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> On 10/19/25 18:26, Ben Greear wrote:
>>> On 10/19/25 08:51, Aleksander Jan Bajkowski wrote:
>>>> Supports IPv4 and IPv6 TCP + UDP
>>>>
>>>> In various tests between MT7986 and Intel BE200, I observed a 
>>>> performance
>>>> boost ranging from 2 to 12%, with an average of 5.5%.
>>>>
>>>> I did the tests on the MT7915, MT7981, MT7986, and MT7921 variants. 
>>>> The
>>>> MT7922, MT7925, and MT799x are untouched for now and still have
>>>> checksumming disabled.
>>>
>>> At least with  7996, tcp csum only worked on the first few vdevs
>>> created in our testing, so we had to add logic to disable that flag
>>> on subsequent vdevs.
>>>
>>> Have you tried creating a bunch of station and/or vap vdevs to see if
>>> all of them can still transmit TCP traffic?
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks for the useful information. On all tested devices, I had a single
>> AP configured per device. I will try to create several APs for each 
>> device.
>
> We can try it out as well.


I've tested multiple VAPs (15x AP + 1x station). It seems that everything
works fine on MT7915, MT7981, and MT7986. By connecting to the first
and last AP, tx checksum offload works correctly. MT7921 only supports
a single VAP, so I skipped testing it.

>
>> I also have a router with MT7996. A quick test shows that checksum
>> offload doesn't work on this router. MT7996 is visible in the system
>> as a single DBDC device. I have 3 APs configured there. Each on a
>> separate band (2.4/5/6 GHz).
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Aleksander
>
> We have it working on 7996, but the patch is tangled in some other 
> changes we made
> with how wcid and such are allocated.  We are still cleaning and 
> testing patches
> on top of Felix's tree, should have something to post sometime soon.
>

Maybe only the MT7996 is affected?