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For sdio chip, it is high latency bus, all the TX packet's content will be tranferred from HOST memory to firmware memory via sdio bus, then it need much more memory in firmware than low latency bus chip, for low latency chip, such as PCI-E, it only need to transfer the TX descriptor via PCI-E bus to firmware memory. For sdio chip, reduce the complexity of TX logic will help TX efficiency since its memory is limited, and it will reduce the TX circle's time of each packet and then firmware will have more memory for TX since TX complete also need memeory. This patch disable TX complete indication from firmware for htt data packet, it will not have TX complete indication from firmware to ath10k. It will cut the cost of bus bandwidth of TX complete and make the TX logic of firmware simpler, it results in significant performance improvement on TX path. Udp TX throughout is 130Mbps without this patch, and it arrives 400Mbps with this patch. The downside of this patch is the command "iw wlan0 station dump" will show 0 for "tx retries" and "tx failed" since all tx packet's status is success. This patch only effect sdio chip, it will not effect PCI, SNOC etc. Tested with QCA6174 SDIO with firmware WLAN.RMH.4.4.1-00017-QCARMSWPZ-1 Signed-off-by: Wen Gong <wgong@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200212080415.31265-2-wgong@codeaurora.org
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.