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wil6210: add option to drop Tx packets when Tx ring is full 

In AP mode with multiple clients, driver stops net queue
(netif_tx_stop_queue) upon first ring (serving specific client)
becoming full. This can have negative effect on transmission to
other clients which may still have room in their corresponding rings.

Implement new policy in which stop/wake net queue are not used. In
case there is no room in the ring for a transmitted packet, drop the
packet.

New policy can be helpful to debug performance issues, to guarantee
maximum utilization of net queues.
New policy is disabled by default and can be enabled by debugfs:
echo 1 > drop_if_ring_full

Signed-off-by: Dedy Lansky <dlansky@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Maya Erez <merez@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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Dedy Lansky 2019-02-22 16:21:00 +02:00 committed by Kalle Valo
parent 387f3794b8
commit 0439a5e035
3 changed files with 13 additions and 2 deletions
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drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c
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@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
/*
* Copyright (c) 2012-2017 Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.
* Copyright (c) 2018, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
* Copyright (c) 2018-2019, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
*
* Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
* purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
@ -2386,6 +2386,7 @@ static const struct dbg_off dbg_statics[] = {
{"led_polarity", 0644, (ulong)&led_polarity, doff_u8},
{"status_index", 0644, (ulong)&dbg_status_msg_index, doff_u32},
{"sring_index", 0644, (ulong)&dbg_sring_index, doff_u32},
{"drop_if_ring_full", 0644, (ulong)&drop_if_ring_full, doff_u8},
{},
};

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drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/txrx.c
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@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ bool rx_large_buf;
module_param(rx_large_buf, bool, 0444);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(rx_large_buf, " allocate 8KB RX buffers, default - no");
/* Drop Tx packets in case Tx ring is full */
bool drop_if_ring_full;
static inline uint wil_rx_snaplen(void)
{
return rx_align_2 ? 6 : 0;
@ -1974,6 +1977,10 @@ static inline void __wil_update_net_queues(struct wil6210_priv *wil,
wil_dbg_txrx(wil, "check_stop=%d, mid=%d, stopped=%d",
check_stop, vif->mid, vif->net_queue_stopped);
if (ring && drop_if_ring_full)
/* no need to stop/wake net queues */
return;
if (check_stop == vif->net_queue_stopped)
/* net queues already in desired state */
return;
@ -2099,6 +2106,8 @@ netdev_tx_t wil_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev)
dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
return NETDEV_TX_OK;
case -ENOMEM:
if (drop_if_ring_full)
goto drop;
return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
default:
break; /* goto drop; */

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drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/wil6210.h
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@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
/*
* Copyright (c) 2012-2017 Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.
* Copyright (c) 2018, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
* Copyright (c) 2018-2019, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
*
* Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
* purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ extern bool rx_large_buf;
extern bool debug_fw;
extern bool disable_ap_sme;
extern bool ftm_mode;
extern bool drop_if_ring_full;
struct wil6210_priv;
struct wil6210_vif;