ksdioirqd has higher priority than kworker. Process RX packets
in SDIO IRQ thread (ksdioirqd/mmcX) directly instead of deferring
the work to kworker to avoid the extra latency.
This improves TCP throughput 15~20% on an ARM platform with SDIO
2.0 controller.
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: modify the comment to accompany the change
(Mukesh Agrawal <quiche@xxxxxxxxxxxx>)
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c | 1 +
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sdio.c | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c
index 1df767b..51a13f8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c
@@ -282,6 +282,7 @@ exit_main_proc:
mwifiex_shutdown_drv(adapter);
return ret;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mwifiex_main_process);
/*
* This function frees the adapter structure.
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sdio.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sdio.c
index fc8a9bf..011c816 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sdio.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sdio.c
@@ -905,8 +905,8 @@ static void mwifiex_interrupt_status(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter)
/*
* SDIO interrupt handler.
*
- * This function reads the interrupt status from firmware and assigns
- * the main process in workqueue which will handle the interrupt.
+ * This function reads the interrupt status from firmware and handles
+ * the interrupt in current thread (ksdioirqd) right away.
*/
static void
mwifiex_sdio_interrupt(struct sdio_func *func)
@@ -929,7 +929,7 @@ mwifiex_sdio_interrupt(struct sdio_func *func)
adapter->ps_state = PS_STATE_AWAKE;
mwifiex_interrupt_status(adapter);
- queue_work(adapter->workqueue, &adapter->main_work);
+ mwifiex_main_process(adapter);
}
/*
--
1.7.0.2
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
