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Re: [PATCH 05/10] wifi: ath12k: decrease MHI channel buffer length to 8KB

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On 4/11/2024 11:06 PM, Baochen Qiang wrote:
> Currently buf_len field of ath12k_mhi_config_wcn7850 is assigned
> with 0, making MHI use a default size, 64KB, to allocate channel
> buffers. This is likely to fail in some scenarios where system
> memory is highly fragmented and memory compaction or reclaim is
> not allowed.
> 
> For now we haven't get any failure report on this in ath12k, but
> there indeed is one such case in ath11k [1].
> 
> Actually those buffers are used only by QMI target -> host communication.
> And for WCN7850, the largest packet size for that is less than 6KB. So
> change buf_len field to 8KB, which results in order 1 allocation if page
> size is 4KB. In this way, we can at least save some memory, and as well
> as decrease the possibility of allocation failure in those scenarios.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/ath11k/96481a45-3547-4d23-ad34-3a8f1d90c1cd@xxxxxxx/
> 
> Tested-on: WCN7850 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HMT.1.0-03427-QCAHMTSWPL_V1.0_V2.0_SILICONZ-1.15378.4
> Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.0.1-00029-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
> 
> Signed-off-by: Baochen Qiang <quic_bqiang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxx>





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