[PATCH] ath10k: enable threaded napi on ath10k driver

[Abhishek Kumar]

Hi All,

This patch is to trigger a discussion on the best approach to enable
threaded NAPI on ath10k. Threaded NAPI feature was added in (net:
extract napi poll functionality to __napi_poll() commit
898f8015ffe74118e7b461827451f2cc6e51035b) and showed good results on
ath10k snoc based solution.

If we come to a consensus with this as the best approach to enable
threaded NAPI on ath10k, then we can moved ahead with the
implementation and enable across sdio and pci, or if there is any
objection then we can discuss it here.

Thanks
Abhishek

On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 2:41 PM Abhishek Kumar <kuabhs at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> NAPI poll can be done in threaded context along with soft irq
> context. Threaded context can be scheduled efficiently, thus
> creating less of bottleneck during Rx processing. This patch is
> to enable threaded NAPI on ath10k driver.
>
> Tested-on: WCN3990 hw1.0 SNOC WLAN.HL.3.2.2-00696-QCAHLSWMTPL-1
> Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <kuabhs at chromium.org>
> ---
>
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c  | 1 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/sdio.c | 1 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/snoc.c | 2 +-
>  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c
> index 4d4e2f91e15c..584307574d99 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c
> @@ -1958,6 +1958,7 @@ static int ath10k_pci_hif_start(struct ath10k *ar)
>
>         ath10k_dbg(ar, ATH10K_DBG_BOOT, "boot hif start\n");
>
> +       dev_set_threaded(&ar->napi_dev, true);
>         ath10k_core_napi_enable(ar);
>
>         ath10k_pci_irq_enable(ar);
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/sdio.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/sdio.c
> index 63e1c2d783c5..52ef74d9811a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/sdio.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/sdio.c
> @@ -1862,6 +1862,7 @@ static int ath10k_sdio_hif_start(struct ath10k *ar)
>         struct ath10k_sdio *ar_sdio = ath10k_sdio_priv(ar);
>         int ret;
>
> +       dev_set_threaded(&ar->napi_dev, true);
>         ath10k_core_napi_enable(ar);
>
>         /* Sleep 20 ms before HIF interrupts are disabled.
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/snoc.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/snoc.c
> index 9513ab696fff..e7d12dbb3fa5 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/snoc.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/snoc.c
> @@ -926,7 +926,7 @@ static int ath10k_snoc_hif_start(struct ath10k *ar)
>         struct ath10k_snoc *ar_snoc = ath10k_snoc_priv(ar);
>
>         bitmap_clear(ar_snoc->pending_ce_irqs, 0, CE_COUNT_MAX);
> -
> +       dev_set_threaded(&ar->napi_dev, true);
>         ath10k_core_napi_enable(ar);
>         ath10k_snoc_irq_enable(ar);
>         ath10k_snoc_rx_post(ar);
> --
> 2.34.1.173.g76aa8bc2d0-goog
>