[PATCH RFC 0/3] ath10k: add encapsulation offloading support

[Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com>]

Hello,

this series introduces driver support for hardware encapsulation
offloading feature.

The main goal of the series is an overall improvement of system
performance. On a QCA9563+QCA9888-based access point in bridged mode,
encapsulation offloading increases TCP 16-streams DL throughput from
365 to 396 mbps (+8%) and UDP DL throughput from 436 to 483 mbps (+11%).

The series consist of three patches, the first two prepare the code, and
the last one introduces the offloading support itself. The first patch
reworks transmission status reporting to make it flexible enough to
support 802.11 and Ethernet encapsulated frames reporting. The second
patch reworks the module parameter that configures the main
encapsulation format of frames that are passed from the driver to the
hardware. It makes it possible to configure more encapsulation methods
than just raw or not-raw. And, as stated before, the third patch
actually introduces offloading support. It changes a couple of frame
analysis places along the xmit path and starts reporting offloading
support to mac80211 via the corresponding hw attribute.

The new feature has been extensively tested with QCA9888 and works well,
but it may introduces some regression for other untested chips. So the
series is just an RFC for now.

Sergey Ryazanov (3):
  ath10k: improve tx status reporting
  ath10k: turn rawmode into frame_mode
  ath10k: add encapsulation offloading support

 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c | 11 +++--
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.h |  1 +
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c  | 67 +++++++++++++++++++++-----
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/txrx.c | 12 ++++-
 4 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

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