[RFC 2/7] ath10k: Add support to process rx packet in thread

Ben Greear greearb at candelatech.com
Mon Mar 22 23:57:59 GMT 2021


On 7/22/20 6:00 AM, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 2020-07-22 14:55, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> On Wed, 2020-07-22 at 14:27 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>>
>>> I'm considering testing a different approach (with mt76 initially):
>>> - Add a mac80211 rx function that puts processed skbs into a list
>>> instead of handing them to the network stack directly.
>>
>> Would this be *after* all the mac80211 processing, i.e. in place of the
>> rx-up-to-stack?
> Yes, it would run all the rx handlers normally and then put the
> resulting skbs into a list instead of calling netif_receive_skb or
> napi_gro_frags.

Whatever came of this?  I realized I'm running Felix's patch since his mt76
driver needs it.  Any chance it will go upstream?

Thanks,
Ben

> 
> - Felix
> 


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