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>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/msgbuf.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/msgbuf.c
index 4ec9811f49c8..b182f53e1c20 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/msgbuf.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/msgbuf.c
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
 #define BRCMF_MSGBUF_TX_FLUSH_CNT1		32
 #define BRCMF_MSGBUF_TX_FLUSH_CNT2		96
 
-#define BRCMF_MSGBUF_DELAY_TXWORKER_THRS	64
+#define BRCMF_MSGBUF_DELAY_TXWORKER_THRS	96
 #define BRCMF_MSGBUF_TRICKLE_TXWORKER_THRS	32
 
 struct msgbuf_common_hdr {
@@ -797,6 +797,8 @@ static int brcmf_msgbuf_txdata(struct brcmf_pub *drvr, int ifidx,
 	struct brcmf_flowring *flow = msgbuf->flow;
 	struct ethhdr *eh = (struct ethhdr *)(skb->data);
 	u32 flowid;
+	u32 queue_count;
+	bool force;
 
 	flowid = brcmf_flowring_lookup(flow, eh->h_dest, skb->priority, ifidx);
 	if (flowid == BRCMF_FLOWRING_INVALID_ID) {
@@ -804,8 +806,9 @@ static int brcmf_msgbuf_txdata(struct brcmf_pub *drvr, int ifidx,
 		if (flowid == BRCMF_FLOWRING_INVALID_ID)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 	}
-	brcmf_flowring_enqueue(flow, flowid, skb);
-	brcmf_msgbuf_schedule_txdata(msgbuf, flowid, false);
+	queue_count = brcmf_flowring_enqueue(flow, flowid, skb);
+	force = ((queue_count % BRCMF_MSGBUF_TRICKLE_TXWORKER_THRS) == 0);
+	brcmf_msgbuf_schedule_txdata(msgbuf, flowid, force);
 
 	return 0;
 }