Question on 10.4 firmware and fetch-indication logic.

[Ben Greear]

I am testing on modified 4.7 kernel and modified firmware with QCA9984 NIC
and lots of virtual station vdevs.

The issue I am looking at currently is that I am seeing floods of these messages
in some cases:

Nov 01 09:43:38 ath-9984 kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0: fetch-ind: failed to lookup txq for peer_id 56 tid 7
Nov 01 09:43:38 ath-9984 kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0: fetch-ind: failed to lookup txq for peer_id 56 tid 7
Nov 01 09:43:38 ath-9984 kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0: fetch-ind: failed to lookup txq for peer_id 56 tid 7
Nov 01 09:43:38 ath-9984 kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0: fetch-ind: failed to lookup txq for peer_id 56 tid 7

 From this code in htt_rx.c:

static void ath10k_htt_rx_tx_fetch_ind(struct ath10k *ar, struct sk_buff *skb)
...

		/* It is okay to release the lock and use txq because RCU read
		 * lock is held.
		 */

		if (unlikely(!txq)) {
			if (net_ratelimit())
				ath10k_warn(ar, "fetch-ind: failed to lookup txq for peer_id %hu tid %hhu\n",
					    peer_id, tid);
			continue;
		}


I am getting these after the vdev in question (and its peers) have been removed.  I guess these
must be stale buffers that are finally transmitted or cleaned up by the firmware after
vdev has been deleted?

I am curious if anyone else sees something similar, and if this is expected behaviour.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com