From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-10.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0A14C433C1 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2021 03:02:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from desiato.infradead.org (desiato.infradead.org [90.155.92.199]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7E24C60200 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2021 03:02:21 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 7E24C60200 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=candelatech.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=ath10k-bounces+ath10k=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=desiato.20200630; h=Sender:Content-Type: Content-Transfer-Encoding:List-Subscribe:List-Help:List-Post:List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:From: References:Cc:To:Subject:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Owner; bh=9zjwdQ/fYAiA2lqjv7vCpEyyKE8k0ckNRopTp5mkkTk=; b=p7vyKXG4hx07DxtBBtKWGipiF 1IpKF5mUjO/grTToOHYF+g6DIJL0MP3LonqpEv+WjbWl5EGblbX9hkUErURzTbt3VYtZg5WHDaeDX 3kPtIU2jcdc0es456LEzlTQciSq1X7Zn8VcQzXixe7BFLnIT3xd8ucT9ELD61DCDVEVGePRcx48ls xp/ONiLlWbuLjHLEs6NAP9EcA4G7k7ltJwaM1pA7JDBot06SO27vDsPv4tqEYyRl1Ze9ia+C3yN8h pTljci7wgSFHm4g+aytf2RnF0MwxujVvRsDwvj0LTs3Ln0dna8dVQ2OYKI8h7XmYnMZw/w0P+oEIT OVzhhWTEg==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=desiato.infradead.org) by desiato.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.94 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1lOXIU-00DUXD-EO; Tue, 23 Mar 2021 03:01:34 +0000 Received: from mail2.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.173] helo=mail3.candelatech.com) by desiato.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.94 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1lOXIP-00DUV9-E4 for ath10k@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2021 03:01:31 +0000 Received: from [192.168.254.6] (unknown [50.34.172.155]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail3.candelatech.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1A1BB13C2B4; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 20:01:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 mail3.candelatech.com 1A1BB13C2B4 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=candelatech.com; s=default; t=1616468487; bh=rQIz9Srsbox3KK9ITKyPEVOOf772HvkSawM6/pJCdiI=; h=Subject:To:Cc:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=PgLrrxDwb6/rrdkZpHooO/DJHyiKBUD10HUxwKQW+Zfr6JxuUtbr1EEmZscxShfD2 vTzeKS0R6Bbu4keJr0Sv/b1l80xRuO1ulLXGvlUw5VKB9nRZpugvys2jenD7RkKsbf TnZeoQXOAIkiSdFdarsp02lGDrE3KL4KenmiBaYY= Subject: Re: [RFC 2/7] ath10k: Add support to process rx packet in thread To: Brian Norris Cc: Felix Fietkau , Johannes Berg , Rajkumar Manoharan , Rakesh Pillai , ath10k , linux-wireless , Linux Kernel , Kalle Valo , "David S. Miller" , Jakub Kicinski , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Doug Anderson , Evan Green References: <1595351666-28193-1-git-send-email-pillair@codeaurora.org> <1595351666-28193-3-git-send-email-pillair@codeaurora.org> <13573549c277b34d4c87c471ff1a7060@codeaurora.org> <04d7301d5ad7555a0377c7df530ad8522fc00f77.camel@sipsolutions.net> <1f2726ff-8ba9-5278-0ec6-b80be475ea98@nbd.name> <06a4f84b-a0d4-3f90-40bb-f02f365460ec@candelatech.com> From: Ben Greear Organization: Candela Technologies Message-ID: <47d8be60-14ce-0223-bdf3-c34dc2451945@candelatech.com> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 20:01:25 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-MW X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20210323_030129_808289_D849F43F X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 20.20 ) X-BeenThere: ath10k@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: "ath10k" Errors-To: ath10k-bounces+ath10k=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On 3/22/21 6:20 PM, Brian Norris wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 4:58 PM Ben Greear wrote: >> On 7/22/20 6:00 AM, Felix Fietkau wrote: >>> On 2020-07-22 14:55, Johannes Berg wrote: >>>> On Wed, 2020-07-22 at 14:27 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote: >>>> >>>>> I'm considering testing a different approach (with mt76 initially): >>>>> - Add a mac80211 rx function that puts processed skbs into a list >>>>> instead of handing them to the network stack directly. >>>> >>>> Would this be *after* all the mac80211 processing, i.e. in place of the >>>> rx-up-to-stack? >>> Yes, it would run all the rx handlers normally and then put the >>> resulting skbs into a list instead of calling netif_receive_skb or >>> napi_gro_frags. >> >> Whatever came of this? I realized I'm running Felix's patch since his mt76 >> driver needs it. Any chance it will go upstream? > > If you're asking about $subject (moving NAPI/RX to a thread), this > landed upstream recently: > http://git.kernel.org/linus/adbb4fb028452b1b0488a1a7b66ab856cdf20715 > > It needs a bit of coaxing to work on a WiFi driver (including: WiFi > drivers tend to have a different netdev for NAPI than they expose to > /sys/class/net/), but it's there. > > I'm not sure if people had something else in mind in the stuff you're > quoting though. No, I got it confused with something Felix did: https://github.com/greearb/mt76/blob/master/patches/0001-net-add-support-for-threaded-NAPI-polling.patch Maybe the NAPI/RX to a thread thing superceded Felix's patch? Thanks, Ben > > Brian > -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com _______________________________________________ ath10k mailing list ath10k@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k