The upstream ath10k driver disables the intermediate softqueues for some
devices. This patch reverts that behaviour and always enables the
softqueues (and associated bufferbloat fixes). We have had reports of people
running this with good results:
https://lists.bufferbloat.net/pipermail/make-wifi-fast/2017-September/001497.html
This also refreshes mac80211 patches.
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <t...@toke.dk>
---
...t-disable-wake_tx_queue-for-older-devices.patch | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++
.../patches/930-ath10k_add_tpt_led_trigger.patch | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
create mode 100644
package/kernel/mac80211/patches/332-ath10k-Revert-disable-wake_tx_queue-for-older-devices.patch
diff --git
a/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/332-ath10k-Revert-disable-wake_tx_queue-for-older-devices.patch
b/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/332-ath10k-Revert-disable-wake_tx_queue-for-older-devices.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b4e7862264
--- /dev/null
+++
b/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/332-ath10k-Revert-disable-wake_tx_queue-for-older-devices.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+From 59f8c22bf1749c4a2b5947bfaebc677c259a1ad6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: dave taht <d...@taht.net>
+Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 20:09:15 -0700
+Subject: [PATCH 5/7] Revert "ath10k: disable wake_tx_queue for older devices"
+
+This reverts commit 4ca1807815aa6801aaced7fdefa9edacc2521767
+in the hope that we've fixed all the performance problems now.
+---
+
+--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
++++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
+@@ -8219,15 +8219,6 @@ int ath10k_mac_register(struct ath10k *a
+ ath10k_warn(ar, "failed to initialise DFS pattern
detector\n");
+ }
+
+- /* Current wake_tx_queue implementation imposes a significant
+- * performance penalty in some setups. The tx scheduling code needs
+- * more work anyway so disable the wake_tx_queue unless firmware
+- * supports the pull-push mechanism.
+- */
+- if (!test_bit(ATH10K_FW_FEATURE_PEER_FLOW_CONTROL,
+- ar->running_fw->fw_file.fw_features))
+- ar->ops->wake_tx_queue = NULL;
+-
+ ret = ath10k_mac_init_rd(ar);
+ if (ret) {
+ ath10k_err(ar, "failed to derive regdom: %d\n", ret);
diff --git
a/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/930-ath10k_add_tpt_led_trigger.patch
b/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/930-ath10k_add_tpt_led_trigger.patch
index 4cf1b9f92a..6137a50bcf 100644
--- a/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/930-ath10k_add_tpt_led_trigger.patch
+++ b/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/930-ath10k_add_tpt_led_trigger.patch
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
-@@ -8003,6 +8003,21 @@ static int ath10k_mac_init_rd(struct ath
+@@ -8007,6 +8007,21 @@ static int ath10k_mac_init_rd(struct ath
return 0;
}
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
int ath10k_mac_register(struct ath10k *ar)
{
static const u32 cipher_suites[] = {
-@@ -8248,6 +8263,12 @@ int ath10k_mac_register(struct ath10k *a
+@@ -8244,6 +8259,12 @@ int ath10k_mac_register(struct ath10k *a
ar->hw->wiphy->cipher_suites = cipher_suites;
ar->hw->wiphy->n_cipher_suites = ARRAY_SIZE(cipher_suites);
--
2.14.1
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