ath10k: fix throughput regression in multi client mode

Valo, Kalle kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com
Fri Sep 2 09:30:26 PDT 2016


Kalle Valo <kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com> writes:

> Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar at qti.qualcomm.com> wrote:
>> commit 7a0adc83f34d ("ath10k: improve tx scheduling") is causing
>> severe throughput drop in multi client mode. This issue is originally
>> reported in veriwave setup with 50 clients with TCP downlink traffic.
>> While increasing number of clients, the average throughput drops
>> gradually. With 50 clients, the combined peak throughput is decreased
>> to 98 Mbps whereas reverting given commit restored it to 550 Mbps.
>> 
>> Processing txqs for every tx completion is causing overhead. Ideally for
>> management frame tx completion, pending txqs processing can be avoided.
>> The change partly reverts the commit "ath10k: improve tx scheduling".
>> Processing pending txqs after all skbs tx completion will yeild enough
>> room to burst tx frames.
>> 
>> Fixes: 7a0adc83f34d ("ath10k: improve tx scheduling")
>> Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar at qti.qualcomm.com>
>
> I'm planning to queue this to 4.8 if no objections.

Actually the patch doesn't apply to ath-current branch so I'll apply to
ath-next instead.

-- 
Kalle Valo


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