[PATCH 0/7] ath10k: rework rx path

Kalle Valo kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com
Fri Nov 21 09:01:51 PST 2014


Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com> writes:

> This patchset unifies rx path. Instead of
> branching for A-MSDU and MSDU cases a single
> codepath is introduced.
>
> This yields:
>
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   14068       0       0   14068    36f4 before/htt_rx.o
>   13308       3       0   13311    33ff after/htt_rx.o
>
> I haven't measured any Rx performance loss in my
> setup but I may be biased. In theory this could
> reduce i-cache pressure and improve Rx throughput
> on CPU contrained systems by a few mbps.
>
> This patchset serves two purposes though:
>  - clean up and unify the Rx path a bit
>  - make it possible to reuse code more easily in
>    the future
>
>
> Michal Kazior (7):
>   ath10k: start using sk_buff_head
>   ath10k: simplify Rx loop
>   ath10k: refactor htt->rx_confused
>   ath10k: unify rx undecapping
>   ath10k: remove unused function argument
>   ath10k: use rx descriptor for ppdu status extraction
>   ath10k: report rx rate and signal for fragmented Rx

Thanks, all seven applied.

-- 
Kalle Valo



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