netdev - Re: [RFC 2/7] ath10k: Add support to process rx packet in thread

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Date:   Mon, 22 Mar 2021 16:57:59 -0700
From:   Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
To:     Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@...eaurora.org>,
        Rakesh Pillai <pillair@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     ath10k@...ts.infradead.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvalo@...eaurora.org,
        davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        dianders@...omium.org, evgreen@...omium.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/7] ath10k: Add support to process rx packet in thread

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?

Thanks,
Ben

> 
> - Felix
> 


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