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Subject: Re: [v3] ath10k: implement NAPI support
From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
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Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com> wrote:
> Add NAPI support for rx and tx completion. NAPI poll is scheduled
> from interrupt handler. The design is as below
> 
>  - on interrupt
>      - schedule napi and mask interrupts
>  - on poll
>    - process all pipes (no actual Tx/Rx)
>    - process Rx within budget
>    - if quota exceeds budget reschedule napi poll by returning budget
>    - process Tx completions and update budget if necessary
>    - process Tx fetch indications (pull-push)
>    - push any other pending Tx (if possible)
>    - before resched or napi completion replenish htt rx ring buffer
>    - if work done < budget, complete napi poll and unmask interrupts
> 
> This change also get rid of two tasklets (intr_tq and txrx_compl_task).
> 
> Measured peak throughput with NAPI on IPQ4019 platform in controlled
> environment. No noticeable reduction in throughput is seen and also
> observed improvements in CPU usage. Approx. 15% CPU usage got reduced
> in UDP uplink case.
> 
> DL: AP DUT Tx
> UL: AP DUT Rx
> 
> IPQ4019 (avg. cpu usage %)
> 
> ========
>                 TOT              +NAPI
>               ===========      =============
> TCP DL       644 Mbps (42%)    645 Mbps (36%)
> TCP UL       673 Mbps (30%)    675 Mbps (26%)
> UDP DL       682 Mbps (49%)    680 Mbps (49%)
> UDP UL       720 Mbps (28%)    717 Mbps (11%)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>

Thanks, 1 patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git:

3c97f5de1f28 ath10k: implement NAPI support

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