2021-06-29 17:37:32

by Felix Fietkau

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/12] ath11k: avoid unnecessary lock contention in tx_completion path

On 2021-06-15 23:14, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> From: P Praneesh <[email protected]>
>
> Lock is not needed for the readable idr operation, so avoid spin_lock_bh
> for the idr_find() call. No need to disable the bottom half preempt if
> it is already in bottom half context, so modify the spin_lock_bh to
> spin_lock in the data tx completion handler.
>
> Tested-on: IPQ8074 hw2.0 AHB WLAN.HK.2.4.0.1-01734-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1 v2
>
> Co-developed-by: Karthikeyan Periyasamy <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Karthikeyan Periyasamy <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: P Praneesh <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp_tx.c | 18 ++++++++----------
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp_tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp_tx.c
> index ab9ccf0eb274..659f9d98bc0c 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp_tx.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp_tx.c
> @@ -288,19 +288,18 @@ static void ath11k_dp_tx_free_txbuf(struct ath11k_base *ab, u8 mac_id,
> struct sk_buff *msdu;
> struct ath11k_skb_cb *skb_cb;
>
> - spin_lock_bh(&tx_ring->tx_idr_lock);
> msdu = idr_find(&tx_ring->txbuf_idr, msdu_id);
> - if (!msdu) {
> + if (unlikely(!msdu)) {
> ath11k_warn(ab, "tx completion for unknown msdu_id %d\n",
> msdu_id);
> - spin_unlock_bh(&tx_ring->tx_idr_lock);
> return;
> }
>
> skb_cb = ATH11K_SKB_CB(msdu);
>
> + spin_lock(&tx_ring->tx_idr_lock);
> idr_remove(&tx_ring->txbuf_idr, msdu_id);
Why are you doing the lookups twice instead of just using the return
value of idr_remove?

- Felix