ath10k driver is using dma_pool_alloc per packet and dma_pool_free
in coresponding at Tx completion.
Use of pre-allocated DMA buffer in Tx will improve saving CPU resource
by 5% while it consumes about 56KB memory more as trade off.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oh <poh@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
In a noisy environment, when multiple interfaces are created,
the management tx descriptors are fully occupied by the probe
responses from all the interfaces. This prevents a new station
from a successful association.
Fix this by limiting the probe responses when the specified
threshold limit is reached.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <nataraja@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
This patch enables raw Rx/Tx encap mode to support software based
crypto engine. This patch introduces a new module param 'cryptmode'.
cryptmode:
0: Use hardware crypto engine globally with native Wi-Fi mode TX/RX
encapsulation to the firmware. This is the default mode.
1: Use sofware crypto engine globally with raw mode TX/RX
encapsulation to the firmware.
Known limitation:
A-MSDU must be disabled for RAW Tx encap mode to perform well when
heavy traffic is applied.
Testing: (by Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>)
a) Performance Testing
cryptmode=1
ap=qca988x sta=killer1525
killer1525 -> qca988x 194.496 mbps [tcp1 ip4]
killer1525 -> qca988x 238.309 mbps [tcp5 ip4]
killer1525 -> qca988x 266.958 mbps [udp1 ip4]
killer1525 -> qca988x 477.468 mbps [udp5 ip4]
qca988x -> killer1525 301.378 mbps [tcp1 ip4]
qca988x -> killer1525 297.949 mbps [tcp5 ip4]
qca988x -> killer1525 331.351 mbps [udp1 ip4]
qca988x -> killer1525 371.528 mbps [udp5 ip4]
ap=killer1525 sta=qca988x
qca988x -> killer1525 331.447 mbps [tcp1 ip4]
qca988x -> killer1525 328.783 mbps [tcp5 ip4]
qca988x -> killer1525 375.309 mbps [udp1 ip4]
qca988x -> killer1525 403.379 mbps [udp5 ip4]
killer1525 -> qca988x 203.689 mbps [tcp1 ip4]
killer1525 -> qca988x 222.339 mbps [tcp5 ip4]
killer1525 -> qca988x 264.199 mbps [udp1 ip4]
killer1525 -> qca988x 479.371 mbps [udp5 ip4]
Note:
- only open network tested for RAW vs nwifi performance comparison
- killer1525 (qca6174 hw2.2) is 2x2 device (hence max 866mbps)
- used iperf
- OTA, devices a few cm apart from each other, no shielding
- tcpX/udpX, X - means number of threads used
Overview:
- relative Tx performance drop is seen but is within reasonable and
expected threshold (A-MSDU must be disabled with RAW Tx)
b) Connectivity Testing
cryptmode=1
ap=iwl6205 sta1=qca988x crypto=open topology-1ap1sta OK
ap=iwl6205 sta1=qca988x crypto=wep1 topology-1ap1sta OK
ap=iwl6205 sta1=qca988x crypto=wpa topology-1ap1sta OK
ap=iwl6205 sta1=qca988x crypto=wpa-ccmp topology-1ap1sta OK
ap=qca988x sta1=iwl6205 crypto=open topology-1ap1sta OK
ap=qca988x sta1=iwl6205 crypto=wep1 topology-1ap1sta OK
ap=qca988x sta1=iwl6205 crypto=wpa topology-1ap1sta OK
ap=qca988x sta1=iwl6205 crypto=wpa-ccmp topology-1ap1sta OK
ap=iwl6205 sta1=qca988x crypto=open topology-1ap1sta2br OK
ap=iwl6205 sta1=qca988x crypto=wep1 topology-1ap1sta2br OK
ap=iwl6205 sta1=qca988x crypto=wpa topology-1ap1sta2br OK
ap=iwl6205 sta1=qca988x crypto=wpa-ccmp topology-1ap1sta2br OK
ap=qca988x sta1=iwl6205 crypto=open topology-1ap1sta2br OK
ap=qca988x sta1=iwl6205 crypto=wep1 topology-1ap1sta2br OK
ap=qca988x sta1=iwl6205 crypto=wpa topology-1ap1sta2br OK
ap=qca988x sta1=iwl6205 crypto=wpa-ccmp topology-1ap1sta2br OK
ap=iwl6205 sta1=qca988x crypto=open topology-1ap1sta2br1vlan OK
ap=iwl6205 sta1=qca988x crypto=wep1 topology-1ap1sta2br1vlan OK
ap=iwl6205 sta1=qca988x crypto=wpa topology-1ap1sta2br1vlan OK
ap=iwl6205 sta1=qca988x crypto=wpa-ccmp topology-1ap1sta2br1vlan OK
ap=qca988x sta1=iwl6205 crypto=open topology-1ap1sta2br1vlan OK
ap=qca988x sta1=iwl6205 crypto=wep1 topology-1ap1sta2br1vlan OK
ap=qca988x sta1=iwl6205 crypto=wpa topology-1ap1sta2br1vlan OK
ap=qca988x sta1=iwl6205 crypto=wpa-ccmp topology-1ap1sta2br1vlan OK
Note:
- each test takes all possible endpoint pairs and pings
- each pair-ping flushes arp table
- ip6 is used
c) Testbed Topology:
1ap1sta:
[ap] ---- [sta]
endpoints: ap, sta
1ap1sta2br:
[veth0] [ap] ---- [sta] [veth2]
| | | |
[veth1] | \ [veth3]
\ / \ /
[br0] [br1]
endpoints: veth0, veth2, br0, br1
note: STA works in 4addr mode, AP has wds_sta=1
1ap1sta2br1vlan:
[veth0] [ap] ---- [sta] [veth2]
| | | |
[veth1] | \ [veth3]
\ / \ /
[br0] [br1]
| |
[vlan0_id2] [vlan1_id2]
endpoints: vlan0_id2, vlan1_id2
note: STA works in 4addr mode, AP has wds_sta=1
Credits:
Thanks to Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com> who helped find the
amsdu issue, contributed a workaround (already squashed into this
patch), and contributed the throughput and connectivity tests results.
Signed-off-by: David Liu <cfliu.tw@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Tested-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
HTT_H2T_MSG_TYPE_MGMT_TX msg in 10.4 firmware carries additional
4 byte in htt_mgmt_tx_desc where it tells to firmware that at what
rate mgmt frame has to go out in the air. It's an optional parameter,
setting this field to zero will force firmware to choose auto rate
and send the frame out.
Those 4 byte info is missed out in the current code and 10.4 firmware
ended up reading some junk in those 4 byte and sometime malfunctioning.
Fix it by adding 4 byte in struct htt_mgmt_tx_desc. Non 10.4 firmware
will not process those four byte. So, adding 4 byte at the end of
struct htt_mgmt_tx_desc will not create any impact on other chipset.
Signed-off-by: Raja Mani <rmani@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
The patch adds support to offload TCP/UDP checksum
calculations for QCA99x0.
Signed-off-by: Manikanta Pubbisetty <c_mpubbi@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Since QCA99X0 uses fragmentation descriptor differently from
other ones on tx path, we need to handle it separately.
QCA99X0 is using 48 bits for address and 16 bits for length
out of 2 dword and each values have to be programmed by frag
desc base addr + msdu id, so that hardware can retrieve
corresponding frag data.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oh <poh@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Pre qca99X0 chipsets follows the model where dynamically allocate
memory for frag desc on getting new skb for TX. But, this is not
going to be the case in qca99X0. It expects frag desc memory to be
allocated at boot time and let the driver to reuse allocated memory
after every TX completion. So there won't be any dynamic frag memory
memory allocation in qca99X0 during data transmission.
qca99X0 hardware doesn't need fragment desc address to be programmed
in msdu descriptor for every data transaction. It needs to know only
starting address of fragment descriptor at the time of the boot.
During data transmission, qca99X0 hardware can retrieve corresponding
frag addr by adding programmed frag desc base addr + msdu id.
Allocate continuous fragment descriptor memory (same size as number of
descriptor) at the time of target initialization and configure allocated
dma address to the target via HTT_H2T_MSG_TYPE_FRAG_DESC_BANK_CFG.
How this is allocated continuous memory is going to be used is not
covered in this patch. It just allocates memory and hand over to firmware.
If we don't do it at init time, qca99X0 will stall when firmware tries
to do TX.
Signed-off-by: Raja Mani <rmani@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
New htt event table is added for 10.4 firmware. Following new htt
events are available only 10.4. adding this to generic htt event
table,
HTT_T2H_MSG_TYPE_EN_STATS,
HTT_T2H_MSG_TYPE_TX_FETCH_IND,
HTT_T2H_MSG_TYPE_TX_FETCH_CONF,
HTT_T2H_MSG_TYPE_TX_LOW_LATENCY_IND
Signed-off-by: Raja Mani <rmani@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Use the new IEEE80211_TX_STAT_NOACK_TRANSMITTED flag
to indicate successful transmission of no-ack frames.
This fixes multicast frame accounting.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Target to host HTT messages are conflicting between 10.x and other
firmware revisions. By maintaining separate HTT T2H tables for each
firmware revisions (main, 10x and tlv) similar to WMI abstraction,
solves the conflicts. Add ATH10K_FW_IE_HTT_OP_VERSION so that the firmware can
advertise the HTT interface to ath10k.
This fix is needed to get management frames over HTT (ie.
ATH10K_FW_FEATURE_HAS_WMI_MGMT_TX disabled) working with 10.2.4.48-2 firmware.
Otherwise there will be unknown htt events and nothing works:
[30087.438343] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: htt event (19) not handled
[30087.448691] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: htt event (19) not handled
[30149.032974] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: htt event (19) not handled
If the firmware does not have ATH10K_FW_IE_HTT_OP_VERSION use the main HTT
interface. That way old firmware images will still work.
Cc: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
HTT Tx protocol uses arbitrary host assigned ids
too associate with MSDUs when delivering
completions.
Instead of rolling out own id generation scheme
use the tools provided in kernel.
This should have little to no effect on
performance.
Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
New firmware and firmware (qca6174 hw3.0+ and fw
266+) are capable of full aggregation rx
reordering. If it's enabled then Rx is handled via
a new, separate htt event.
The rx ring behaviour is changed a little to
support the new rx scheme. These changes shouldn't
affect qca988x performance.
Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
htt->max_throughput_mbps is not used anywhere.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Don't bother with fancy arithmetic and just
hardcode the final values.
Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
New firmware revisions don't need peer creation
when doing offchannel tx. Earlier revisions would
queue and never release frames without a peer.
This prevent new firmware revisions from stopping
replenishing wmi-htc tx credits and improves
reliability of offchannel tx which would sometimes
silently fail.
Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
This is useful for collecting pktlog statistics of tx, rx
and rate information, so add tracing for the API call.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Fixes checkpatch warnings:
ath10k/htc.c:49: WARNING: Possible unnecessary 'out of memory' message
ath10k/htc.c:810: WARNING: Possible unnecessary 'out of memory' message
ath10k/htt.h:1034: CHECK: Please use a blank line after function/struct/union/enum declarations
ath10k/htt_rx.c:135: CHECK: Unnecessary parentheses around htt->rx_ring.alloc_idx.vaddr
ath10k/htt_rx.c:173: CHECK: Unnecessary parentheses around htt->rx_ring.alloc_idx.vaddr
ath10k/pci.c:633: WARNING: macros should not use a trailing semicolon
ath10k/wmi.c:3594: WARNING: quoted string split across lines
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Allow to setup maximum subframes for AMSDU and AMPDU aggregation
via debugfs htt_max_amsdu_ampdu file.
Eg.
echo "2 64" > htt_max_amsdu_ampdu
will setup maximum amsdu subframes equal 2 and
maximum ampdu subframes equal to 64.
Signed-off-by: Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
It was possible to call hif_stop() 2 times through
ath10k_htc_connect_init() timeout failpath which
could lead to double free_irq() kernel splat for
multiple MSI interrupt case.
Re-order init sequence to avoid this problem. The
HTC stop shouldn't stop HIF implicitly since it
doesn't implicitly start it. Since the re-ordering
required some functions to be split/removed/renamed
rename a few functions to make more sense while at
it.
Reported-By: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Introduce rx_status htt template instead of
stack version, as a preparation for fix
rssi and rates reporting.
Signed-off-by: Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Struct htt_rx_info is not needed anymore while
we will use ieee80211_rx_status structure as
a template.
Signed-off-by: Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Kill rates, tsf, fcs_err, mic_err, amsdu_more, encrypt_type, signal
from htt_rx_info and setup this directly in ieee80211_rx_status.
Signed-off-by: Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Will be used as a template, and final storage for
rx_status.
Signed-off-by: Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
HTT Rx endpoint processes both frame rx
indications and frame tx completion indications.
Those completions typically come in batches and
may be mixed so it makes sense to defer processing
hoping to get a bunch of them and take advantage
of hot caches.
Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Going through full htc tx path for htt tx is a
waste of resources. By skipping it it's possible
to easily submit scatter-gather to the pci hif for
reduced host cpu load and improved performance.
The new approach uses dma pool to store the
following metadata for each tx request:
* msdu fragment list
* htc header
* htt tx command
The htt tx command contains a msdu prefetch.
Instead of copying it original mapped msdu address
is used to submit a second scatter-gather item to
hif to make a complete htt tx command.
The htt tx command itself hands over dma mapped
pointers to msdus and completion of the command
itself doesn't mean the frame has been sent and
can be unmapped/freed. This is why htc tx
completion is skipped for htt tx as all tx related
resources are freed upon htt tx completion
indication event (which also implicitly means htt
tx command itself was completed).
Since now each htt tx request effectively consists
of 2 copy engine items CE_HTT_H2T_MSG_SRC_NENTRIES
is updated to allow maximum of
TARGET_10X_NUM_MSDU_DESC msdus being queued. This
keeps the tx path resource management simple.
Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Retrieve the mactime of ieee80211_rx_status based on received
data frame. The value is obtained from the htt_rx_indication_ppdu
structure and only available in 32-bit.
kvalo: white space fixes
Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
We should check MIC error flag base on
rx_attention, to have consistent status
of MIC failure and FCS error.
Signed-off-by: Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
With commit 0cfcefef1 ("mac80211: support reporting A-MSDU subframes
individually") there's no need to have the hack to clear the retry bit in
ath10k_htt_rx_amsdu(), mac80211 can handle this properly now.
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
This starves FW RX ring buffer in case of
excessive RX. This prevents from CPU being
overwhelmed by RX indications/completions by
naturally forbiddin FW to submit more RX.
This fixes RX starvation on slow machines when
under heavy RX traffic.
kvalo: remove extra newline
Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
New firmware comes with new HTT protocol version.
In 3.0 the separate mgmt tx command has been
removed. All traffic is to be pushed through data
tx (tx_frm) command with a twist - FW seems to not
be able (yet?) to access tx fragment table so for
manamgement frames frame pointer is passed
directly.
Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
This reduces number of allocations and simplifies
memory managemnt.
Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Here's a new mac80211 driver for Qualcomm Atheros 802.11ac QCA98xx devices.
A major difference from ath9k is that there's now a firmware and
that's why we had to implement a new driver.
The wiki page for the driver is:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath10k
The driver has had many authors, they are listed here alphabetically:
Bartosz Markowski <bartosz.markowski@tieto.com>
Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic@tieto.com>
Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Marek Kwaczynski <marek.kwaczynski@tieto.com>
Marek Puzyniak <marek.puzyniak@tieto.com>
Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
