This patchset covers optimizations in rx (first 7 patches)
and tx (remaining 5 patches) data path.
Running UDP DL/UL traffic on IPQ8074 5G radio showed an average 5-10%
improvement on a 4 core platform
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v2:
- Addressed internal developer reported segfault and avoid lookup twice
by utilizing idr_remove (patch 12/12 and patch 2/12).
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P Praneesh (12):
ath11k: disable unused CE8 interrupts for ipq8074
ath11k: allocate dst ring descriptors from cacheable memory
ath11k: modify dp_rx desc access wrapper calls inline
ath11k: avoid additional access to ath11k_hal_srng_dst_num_free
ath11k: avoid active pdev check for each msdu
ath11k: remove usage quota while processing rx packets
ath11k: add branch predictors in process_rx
ath11k: allocate HAL_WBM2SW_RELEASE ring from cacheable memory
ath11k: remove mod operator in dst ring processing
ath11k: avoid while loop in ring selection of tx completion interrupt
ath11k: add branch predictors in dp_tx path
ath11k: avoid unnecessary lock contention in tx_completion path
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/ce.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/core.c | 5 +
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp.c | 48 ++++++--
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp.h | 1 +
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp_rx.c | 205 ++++++++++++++++----------------
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp_tx.c | 76 ++++++------
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/hal.c | 35 +++++-
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/hal.h | 1 +
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/hw.h | 1 +
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c | 2 +-
10 files changed, 219 insertions(+), 157 deletions(-)
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2.7.4
