diff options
| author | Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> | 2015-05-20 15:09:48 +0300 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> | 2015-05-26 14:09:54 +0300 |
| commit | 464a5f3f0429c5a6d38d3b4899d38c4b66b18f02 (patch) | |
| tree | 940c1af6c5cef5063f953296bb8216fc9c676050 /drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/flowring.c | |
| parent | f58001fa95703ac275efe7d53fb7ca8613618b09 (diff) | |
| download | linux-464a5f3f0429c5a6d38d3b4899d38c4b66b18f02.tar.xz | |
brcmfmac: Improve throughput by scheduling msbug flow worker.
The tx flow worker in msgbuf gets scheduled at tx till a certain
threshold has been reached. Then the tx completes will take over
the scheduling. When amsdu and ampdu is used the frames are
transferred wireless in a very bulky fashion, in combination
with this scheduling algorithm and buffer limiters in the stack
this can result in limited throughput. This change causes the
flow worker to be scheduled more frequently from tx.
Reviewed-by: Arend Van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel (Deognyoun) Kim <dekim@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/flowring.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/flowring.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/flowring.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/flowring.c index eb1325371d3a..59440631fec5 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/flowring.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/flowring.c @@ -249,8 +249,8 @@ void brcmf_flowring_delete(struct brcmf_flowring *flow, u8 flowid) } -void brcmf_flowring_enqueue(struct brcmf_flowring *flow, u8 flowid, - struct sk_buff *skb) +u32 brcmf_flowring_enqueue(struct brcmf_flowring *flow, u8 flowid, + struct sk_buff *skb) { struct brcmf_flowring_ring *ring; @@ -271,6 +271,7 @@ void brcmf_flowring_enqueue(struct brcmf_flowring *flow, u8 flowid, if (skb_queue_len(&ring->skblist) < BRCMF_FLOWRING_LOW) brcmf_flowring_block(flow, flowid, false); } + return skb_queue_len(&ring->skblist); } |