linux-kernel - [PATCH ath-next] wifi: ath10k: avoid unnecessary wait for service ready message

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Message-Id: <20250811-ath10k-avoid-unnecessary-wait-v1-1-db2deb87c39b@oss.qualcomm.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 17:26:45 +0800
From: Baochen Qiang <baochen.qiang@....qualcomm.com>
To: Jeff Johnson <jjohnson@...nel.org>, Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>,
        Baochen Qiang <quic_bqiang@...cinc.com>
Cc: Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@....qualcomm.com>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, ath10k@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>,
        Baochen Qiang <baochen.qiang@....qualcomm.com>
Subject: [PATCH ath-next] wifi: ath10k: avoid unnecessary wait for service
 ready message

Commit e57b7d62a1b2 ("wifi: ath10k: poll service ready message before
failing") works around the failure in waiting for the service ready
message by active polling. Note the polling is triggered after initial
wait timeout, which means that the wait-till-timeout can not be avoided
even the message is ready.

A possible fix is to do polling once before wait as well, however this
can not handle the race that the message arrives right after polling.
So the solution is to do periodic polling until timeout.

Tested-on: QCA6174 hw3.2 PCI WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00309-QCARMSWPZ-1

Fixes: e57b7d62a1b2 ("wifi: ath10k: poll service ready message before failing")
Reported-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/97a15967-5518-4731-a8ff-d43ff7f437b0@molgen.mpg.de
Signed-off-by: Baochen Qiang <baochen.qiang@....qualcomm.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c
index cb8ae751eb312109f74985580065c3b9d3806d51..e595b0979a56d3110ce0acf534e718a4a1f36a0b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c
@@ -1764,33 +1764,32 @@ void ath10k_wmi_put_wmi_channel(struct ath10k *ar, struct wmi_channel *ch,
 
 int ath10k_wmi_wait_for_service_ready(struct ath10k *ar)
 {
+	unsigned long timeout = jiffies + WMI_SERVICE_READY_TIMEOUT_HZ;
 	unsigned long time_left, i;
 
-	time_left = wait_for_completion_timeout(&ar->wmi.service_ready,
-						WMI_SERVICE_READY_TIMEOUT_HZ);
-	if (!time_left) {
-		/* Sometimes the PCI HIF doesn't receive interrupt
-		 * for the service ready message even if the buffer
-		 * was completed. PCIe sniffer shows that it's
-		 * because the corresponding CE ring doesn't fires
-		 * it. Workaround here by polling CE rings once.
-		 */
-		ath10k_warn(ar, "failed to receive service ready completion, polling..\n");
-
+	/* Sometimes the PCI HIF doesn't receive interrupt
+	 * for the service ready message even if the buffer
+	 * was completed. PCIe sniffer shows that it's
+	 * because the corresponding CE ring doesn't fires
+	 * it. Workaround here by polling CE rings. Since
+	 * the message could arrive at any time, continue
+	 * polling until timeout.
+	 */
+	do {
 		for (i = 0; i < CE_COUNT; i++)
 			ath10k_hif_send_complete_check(ar, i, 1);
 
+		/* The 100 ms granularity is a tradeoff considering scheduler
+		 * overhead and response latency
+		 */
 		time_left = wait_for_completion_timeout(&ar->wmi.service_ready,
-							WMI_SERVICE_READY_TIMEOUT_HZ);
-		if (!time_left) {
-			ath10k_warn(ar, "polling timed out\n");
-			return -ETIMEDOUT;
-		}
-
-		ath10k_warn(ar, "service ready completion received, continuing normally\n");
-	}
+							msecs_to_jiffies(100));
+		if (time_left)
+			return 0;
+	} while (time_before(jiffies, timeout));
 
-	return 0;
+	ath10k_warn(ar, "failed to receive service ready completion\n");
+	return -ETIMEDOUT;
 }
 
 int ath10k_wmi_wait_for_unified_ready(struct ath10k *ar)

---
base-commit: 0f79768f8d665b43b77967d38b5df6ccebe8cb57
change-id: 20250730-ath10k-avoid-unnecessary-wait-a9d48136490f

Best regards,
-- 
Baochen Qiang <baochen.qiang@....qualcomm.com>