[PATCH] ath10k: snoc: enable threaded napi on WCN3990

[Manikanta Pubbisetty]

On 12/20/2022 1:25 PM, Abhishek Kumar 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.
> 
> Based on testing, it was observed that on WCN3990, the CPU0 reaches
> 100% utilization when napi runs in softirq context. At the same
> time the other CPUs are at low consumption percentage. This
> does not allow device to reach its maximum throughput potential.
> After enabling threaded napi, CPU load is balanced across all CPUs
> and following improvments were observed:
> - UDP_RX increase by ~22-25%
> - TCP_RX increase by ~15%
> 
> 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/core.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/hw.h   |  2 ++
>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/snoc.c |  3 +++
>   3 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c
> index 5eb131ab916fd..ee4b6ba508c81 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c
> @@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
>   		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
>   		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
>   		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
> +		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
>   	},
>   	{
>   		.id = QCA988X_HW_2_0_VERSION,
> @@ -140,6 +141,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
>   		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
>   		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
>   		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
> +		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
>   	},
>   	{
>   		.id = QCA9887_HW_1_0_VERSION,
> @@ -181,6 +183,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
>   		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
>   		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
>   		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
> +		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
>   	},
>   	{
>   		.id = QCA6174_HW_3_2_VERSION,
> @@ -217,6 +220,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
>   		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
>   		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
>   		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
> +		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
>   	},
>   	{
>   		.id = QCA6174_HW_2_1_VERSION,
> @@ -257,6 +261,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
>   		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
>   		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
>   		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
> +		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
>   	},
>   	{
>   		.id = QCA6174_HW_2_1_VERSION,
> @@ -297,6 +302,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
>   		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
>   		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
>   		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
> +		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
>   	},
>   	{
>   		.id = QCA6174_HW_3_0_VERSION,
> @@ -337,6 +343,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
>   		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
>   		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
>   		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
> +		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
>   	},
>   	{
>   		.id = QCA6174_HW_3_2_VERSION,
> @@ -381,6 +388,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
>   		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
>   		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
>   		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
> +		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
>   	},
>   	{
>   		.id = QCA99X0_HW_2_0_DEV_VERSION,
> @@ -427,6 +435,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
>   		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
>   		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
>   		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
> +		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
>   	},
>   	{
>   		.id = QCA9984_HW_1_0_DEV_VERSION,
> @@ -480,6 +489,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
>   		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
>   		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
>   		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
> +		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
>   	},
>   	{
>   		.id = QCA9888_HW_2_0_DEV_VERSION,
> @@ -530,6 +540,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
>   		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
>   		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
>   		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
> +		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
>   	},
>   	{
>   		.id = QCA9377_HW_1_0_DEV_VERSION,
> @@ -570,6 +581,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
>   		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
>   		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
>   		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
> +		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
>   	},
>   	{
>   		.id = QCA9377_HW_1_1_DEV_VERSION,
> @@ -612,6 +624,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
>   		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
>   		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
>   		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
> +		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
>   	},
>   	{
>   		.id = QCA9377_HW_1_1_DEV_VERSION,
> @@ -645,6 +658,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
>   		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
>   		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
>   		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
> +		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
>   	},
>   	{
>   		.id = QCA4019_HW_1_0_DEV_VERSION,
> @@ -692,6 +706,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
>   		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
>   		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
>   		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
> +		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
>   	},
>   	{
>   		.id = WCN3990_HW_1_0_DEV_VERSION,
> @@ -725,6 +740,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
>   		.hw_restart_disconnect = true,
>   		.use_fw_tx_credits = false,
>   		.delay_unmap_buffer = true,
> +		.enable_threaded_napi = true,
>   	},
>   };
>   
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/hw.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/hw.h
> index 9643031a4427a..adf3076b96503 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/hw.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/hw.h
> @@ -639,6 +639,8 @@ struct ath10k_hw_params {
>   	bool use_fw_tx_credits;
>   
>   	bool delay_unmap_buffer;
> +
> +	bool enable_threaded_napi;
>   };
>   
>   struct htt_resp;
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/snoc.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/snoc.c
> index cfcb759a87dea..b94150fb6ef06 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/snoc.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/snoc.c
> @@ -927,6 +927,9 @@ static int ath10k_snoc_hif_start(struct ath10k *ar)
>   
>   	bitmap_clear(ar_snoc->pending_ce_irqs, 0, CE_COUNT_MAX);
>   
> +	if (ar->hw_params.enable_threaded_napi)
> +		dev_set_threaded(&ar->napi_dev, true);
> +

Since this is done in the API specific to WCN3990, we do not need 
hw_param for this.

Thanks,
Manikanta