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Commit 3c97f5de authored by Rajkumar Manoharan's avatar Rajkumar Manoharan Committed by Kalle Valo
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ath10k: implement NAPI support



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: default avatarRajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
parent c39265f7
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