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

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On 3/22/21 6:20 PM, Brian Norris wrote:
On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 4:58 PM Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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?

If you're asking about $subject (moving NAPI/RX to a thread), this
landed upstream recently:
http://git.kernel.org/linus/adbb4fb028452b1b0488a1a7b66ab856cdf20715

It needs a bit of coaxing to work on a WiFi driver (including: WiFi
drivers tend to have a different netdev for NAPI than they expose to
/sys/class/net/), but it's there.

I'm not sure if people had something else in mind in the stuff you're
quoting though.

No, I got it confused with something Felix did:

https://github.com/greearb/mt76/blob/master/patches/0001-net-add-support-for-threaded-NAPI-polling.patch

Maybe the NAPI/RX to a thread thing superceded Felix's patch?

Thanks,
Ben


Brian



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