ath10k: improve tx status reporting
authorSergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com>
Wed, 18 May 2022 07:27:26 +0000 (10:27 +0300)
committerKalle Valo <quic_kvalo@quicinc.com>
Sun, 22 May 2022 12:27:51 +0000 (15:27 +0300)
commit2587d5198aa5adcbd8896aae4a2404dc13d48637
tree41a2b9e7a897faac862d62040a6bd7f6e2b92e7c
parent1ee6c5abebd3cacf2ac4378d0ed4f57fd4850421
ath10k: improve tx status reporting

We use ieee80211_tx_status() to report each completed tx frame.
Internally, this function calls sta_info_get_by_addrs(), what has a
couple of drawbacks:
1. additional station lookup causes a performance degradation;
2. mac80211 can not properly account Ethernet encapsulated frames due
   to the inability to properly determine the destination (station) MAC
   address since ieee80211_tx_status() assumes the frame has a 802.11
   header.

The latter is especially destructive if we want to use hardware frames
encapsulation.

To fix both of these issues, replace ieee80211_tx_status() with
ieee80211_tx_status_ext() call and feed it station pointer from the tx
queue associated with the transmitted frame.

Tested-on: QCA9888 hw2.0 PCI 10.4-3.9.0.2-00131
Tested-on: QCA6174 hw3.2 PCI WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00157-QCARMSWPZ-1

Signed-off-by: Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Oldřich Jedlička <oldium.pro@gmail.com> # TP-Link Archer C7 v4 & v5 (QCA9563 + QCA9880)
Tested-by: Edward Matijevic <motolav@gmail.com> # TP-Link Archer C2600 (IPQ8064 + QCA9980 10.4.1.00030-1)
Tested-by: Edward Matijevic <motolav@gmail.com> # QCA9377 PCI in Sta mode
Tested-by: Zhijun You <hujy652@gmail.com> # NETGEAR R7800 (QCA9984 10.4-3.9.0.2-00159)
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@quicinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220516032519.29831-2-ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/txrx.c