From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>
To: Sebastian Moeller <moeller0@gmx.de>
Cc: Kan Yan <kyan@google.com>,
Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@codeaurora.org>,
Kevin Hayes <kevinhayes@google.com>,
make-wifi-fast@lists.bufferbloat.net,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath10k@lists.infradead.org,
John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>,
Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Subject: Re: [Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH v2 4/4] mac80211: Use Airtime-based Queue Limits (AQL) on packet dequeue
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 12:24:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lftjfz51.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <751EA059-654B-4E06-A3D6-C727FE1FCE98@gmx.de>
Sebastian Moeller <moeller0@gmx.de> writes:
>> On Oct 17, 2019, at 11:44, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Kan Yan <kyan@google.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hi Toke,
>>>
>>> Thanks for getting this done! I will give it a try in the next few
>>> days. A few comments:
>>>
>>>> The estimated airtime for each skb is stored in the tx_info, so we can
>>>> subtract the same amount from the running total when the skb is freed or
>>>> recycled.
>>>
>>> Looks like ath10k driver zero out the info->status before calling
>>> ieee80211_tx_status(...):
>>> int ath10k_txrx_tx_unref(struct ath10k_htt *htt,
>>> const struct htt_tx_done *tx_done)
>>> {
>>> ...
>>> info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(msdu);
>>> memset(&info->status, 0, sizeof(info->status));
>>> ...
>>> ieee80211_tx_status(htt->ar->hw, msdu);
>>> }
>>
>> Ah, bugger; I was afraid we'd run into this. A quick grep indicates that
>> it's only ath10k and iwl that do this, though, so it's probably
>> manageable to just fix this. I think the simplest solution is just to
>> restore the field after clearing, no?
>>
>>> We need either restore the info->status.tx_time_est or calling
>>> ieee80211_sta_update_pending_airtime() in ath10k before tx_time_est
>>> get erased.
>>>
>>>> + if (local->airtime_flags & AIRTIME_USE_AQL) {
>>>> + airtime = ieee80211_calc_expected_tx_airtime(hw, vif, txq->sta,
>>>> + skb->len + 38);
>>>
>>> I think it is better to put the "+ 38" that takes care of the header
>>> overhead inside ieee80211_calc_expected_tx_airtime().
>>
>> Hmm, no strong opinion about this; but yeah, since we have a dedicated
>> function for this use I guess there's no harm in adding it there :)
>>
>
> Silly question, is this Overhead guaranteed to be 38 Bytes for all
> eternity? Otherwise a variable or a preprocessor constant might be
> more future proof?
Well, yeah, as long as we're sending Ethernet packets. Which is kinda
baked into the WiFi standard :)
-Toke
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-17 10:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-15 17:18 [PATCH v2 0/4] Add Airtime Queue Limits (AQL) to mac80211 Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-10-15 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] mac80211: Rearrange ieee80211_tx_info to make room for tx_time_est Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-10-18 0:50 ` Kan Yan
2019-10-18 10:15 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-10-18 12:21 ` Johannes Berg
2019-10-18 13:31 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-10-18 13:48 ` Johannes Berg
2019-10-18 14:01 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-10-18 14:07 ` Johannes Berg
2019-10-18 14:22 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-10-18 14:14 ` Johannes Berg
2019-10-18 14:30 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-10-18 12:35 ` Johannes Berg
2019-10-18 13:01 ` Ben Greear
2019-10-15 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] mac80211: Import airtime calculation code from mt76 Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-10-15 17:19 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] mac80211: Implement Airtime-based Queue Limit (AQL) Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-10-15 17:19 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] mac80211: Use Airtime-based Queue Limits (AQL) on packet dequeue Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-10-17 0:33 ` Kan Yan
2019-10-17 9:44 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-10-17 9:57 ` [Make-wifi-fast] " Sebastian Moeller
2019-10-17 10:24 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2019-10-17 10:25 ` Sebastian Moeller
2019-10-18 1:11 ` Kan Yan
2019-10-18 14:15 ` Johannes Berg
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