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Date:   Tue, 20 Dec 2022 07:55:06 +0000
From:   Abhishek Kumar <kuabhs@...omium.org>
To:     kvalo@...nel.org
Cc:     ath10k@...ts.infradead.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        kuabhs@...omium.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ath10k: snoc: enable threaded napi on WCN3990

NAPI poll can be done in threaded context along with soft irq
context. Threaded context can be scheduled efficiently, thus
creating less of bottleneck during Rx processing. This patch is
to enable threaded NAPI on ath10k driver.

Based on testing, it was observed that on WCN3990, the CPU0 reaches
100% utilization when napi runs in softirq context. At the same
time the other CPUs are at low consumption percentage. This
does not allow device to reach its maximum throughput potential.
After enabling threaded napi, CPU load is balanced across all CPUs
and following improvments were observed:
- UDP_RX increase by ~22-25%
- TCP_RX increase by ~15%

Tested-on: WCN3990 hw1.0 SNOC WLAN.HL.3.2.2-00696-QCAHLSWMTPL-1
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <kuabhs@...omium.org>
---

 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/hw.h   |  2 ++
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/snoc.c |  3 +++
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c
index 5eb131ab916fd..ee4b6ba508c81 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
 		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
 		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
 		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
+		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
 	},
 	{
 		.id = QCA988X_HW_2_0_VERSION,
@@ -140,6 +141,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
 		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
 		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
 		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
+		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
 	},
 	{
 		.id = QCA9887_HW_1_0_VERSION,
@@ -181,6 +183,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
 		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
 		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
 		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
+		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
 	},
 	{
 		.id = QCA6174_HW_3_2_VERSION,
@@ -217,6 +220,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
 		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
 		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
 		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
+		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
 	},
 	{
 		.id = QCA6174_HW_2_1_VERSION,
@@ -257,6 +261,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
 		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
 		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
 		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
+		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
 	},
 	{
 		.id = QCA6174_HW_2_1_VERSION,
@@ -297,6 +302,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
 		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
 		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
 		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
+		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
 	},
 	{
 		.id = QCA6174_HW_3_0_VERSION,
@@ -337,6 +343,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
 		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
 		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
 		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
+		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
 	},
 	{
 		.id = QCA6174_HW_3_2_VERSION,
@@ -381,6 +388,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
 		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
 		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
 		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
+		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
 	},
 	{
 		.id = QCA99X0_HW_2_0_DEV_VERSION,
@@ -427,6 +435,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
 		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
 		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
 		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
+		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
 	},
 	{
 		.id = QCA9984_HW_1_0_DEV_VERSION,
@@ -480,6 +489,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
 		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
 		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
 		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
+		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
 	},
 	{
 		.id = QCA9888_HW_2_0_DEV_VERSION,
@@ -530,6 +540,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
 		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
 		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
 		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
+		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
 	},
 	{
 		.id = QCA9377_HW_1_0_DEV_VERSION,
@@ -570,6 +581,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
 		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
 		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
 		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
+		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
 	},
 	{
 		.id = QCA9377_HW_1_1_DEV_VERSION,
@@ -612,6 +624,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
 		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
 		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
 		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
+		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
 	},
 	{
 		.id = QCA9377_HW_1_1_DEV_VERSION,
@@ -645,6 +658,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
 		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
 		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
 		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
+		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
 	},
 	{
 		.id = QCA4019_HW_1_0_DEV_VERSION,
@@ -692,6 +706,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
 		.hw_restart_disconnect = false,
 		.use_fw_tx_credits = true,
 		.delay_unmap_buffer = false,
+		.enable_threaded_napi = false,
 	},
 	{
 		.id = WCN3990_HW_1_0_DEV_VERSION,
@@ -725,6 +740,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
 		.hw_restart_disconnect = true,
 		.use_fw_tx_credits = false,
 		.delay_unmap_buffer = true,
+		.enable_threaded_napi = true,
 	},
 };
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/hw.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/hw.h
index 9643031a4427a..adf3076b96503 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/hw.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/hw.h
@@ -639,6 +639,8 @@ struct ath10k_hw_params {
 	bool use_fw_tx_credits;
 
 	bool delay_unmap_buffer;
+
+	bool enable_threaded_napi;
 };
 
 struct htt_resp;
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/snoc.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/snoc.c
index cfcb759a87dea..b94150fb6ef06 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/snoc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/snoc.c
@@ -927,6 +927,9 @@ static int ath10k_snoc_hif_start(struct ath10k *ar)
 
 	bitmap_clear(ar_snoc->pending_ce_irqs, 0, CE_COUNT_MAX);
 
+	if (ar->hw_params.enable_threaded_napi)
+		dev_set_threaded(&ar->napi_dev, true);
+
 	ath10k_core_napi_enable(ar);
 	ath10k_snoc_irq_enable(ar);
 	ath10k_snoc_rx_post(ar);
-- 
2.39.0.314.g84b9a713c41-goog

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