From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>
To: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Cc: make-wifi-fast@lists.bufferbloat.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH v7] mac80211: Move reorder-sensitive TX handlers to after TXQ dequeue.
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2016 19:59:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wpiq9qj9.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ffb5fee-78c1-79aa-2297-e125c59b092c@nbd.name> (Felix Fietkau's message of "Mon, 5 Sep 2016 19:49:42 +0200")
Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name> writes:
> On 2016-09-05 13:30, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>> The TXQ intermediate queues can cause packet reordering when more than
>> one flow is active to a single station. Since some of the wifi-specific
>> packet handling (notably sequence number and encryption handling) is
>> sensitive to re-ordering, things break if they are applied before the
>> TXQ.
>>
>> This splits up the TX handlers and fast_xmit logic into two parts: An
>> early part and a late part. The former is applied before TXQ enqueue,
>> and the latter after dequeue. The non-TXQ path just applies both parts
>> at once.
>>
>> Because fragments shouldn't be split up or reordered, the fragmentation
>> handler is run after dequeue. Any fragments are then kept in the TXQ and
>> on subsequent dequeues they take precedence over dequeueing from the FQ
>> structure.
>>
>> This approach avoids having to scatter special cases for when TXQ is
>> enabled, at the cost of making the fast_xmit and TX handler code
>> slightly more complex.
> In my test, this one completely breaks ath9k with the txq patch.
> One or two packets go through, then tx stalls completely.
I assume you are testing on LEDE? It requires a change to work with the
patch in the LEDE tree that puts hdrlen into ieee80211_tx_data. Did you
fix that? Otherwise multicast (and possibly other things) will break
badly.
I have a version that should work with LEDE here:
https://kau.toke.dk/git/lede/tree/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/346-mac80211-move-reorder-sensitive-tx-handlers-to-after-TXQ-dequeue.patch
-Toke
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Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-17 12:58 [Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH] mac80211: Move crypto IV generation " Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-08-17 13:08 ` Johannes Berg
2016-08-17 13:16 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-08-17 13:18 ` Johannes Berg
2016-08-17 13:23 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-08-17 14:45 ` [Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH v2] " Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-08-17 15:47 ` Noah Causin
2016-08-17 22:33 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-08-19 3:06 ` Noah Causin
2016-08-22 14:24 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-08-23 17:06 ` Noah Causin
2016-08-23 17:51 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-08-17 19:49 ` Johannes Berg
2016-08-17 20:07 ` Dave Taht
2016-08-17 20:43 ` Johannes Berg
2016-08-22 14:47 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-08-26 8:38 ` Johannes Berg
2016-08-26 8:54 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-08-24 16:20 ` [Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH v3] mac80211: Move reorder-sensitive TX handlers " Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-08-24 22:40 ` Noah Causin
2016-08-25 12:45 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-08-26 14:30 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-08-26 14:51 ` Dave Taht
2016-08-30 13:15 ` [Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH v4] " Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-08-30 13:17 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-08-31 21:06 ` Johannes Berg
2016-09-01 8:23 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-01 8:34 ` Johannes Berg
2016-09-01 8:38 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-01 9:07 ` Johannes Berg
2016-09-01 9:20 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-01 9:27 ` Johannes Berg
2016-09-01 9:42 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-01 16:03 ` [Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH v5] " Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-01 17:59 ` Johannes Berg
2016-09-01 18:30 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-01 18:35 ` Johannes Berg
2016-09-02 2:48 ` Jason Andryuk
2016-09-02 9:27 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-02 13:41 ` [Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH v6] " Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-02 14:44 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-05 11:30 ` [Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH v7] " Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-05 16:06 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-05 17:00 ` Dave Taht
2016-09-05 17:26 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-05 17:59 ` Dave Taht
2016-09-05 20:23 ` Dave Taht
2016-09-05 20:45 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-05 21:02 ` Dave Taht
2016-09-05 21:25 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-05 21:29 ` Dave Taht
2016-09-05 21:35 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-05 21:42 ` Dave Taht
2016-09-05 22:04 ` Dave Taht
2016-09-05 22:01 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-05 22:08 ` Dave Taht
2016-09-05 22:31 ` Dave Taht
2016-09-05 17:49 ` Felix Fietkau
2016-09-05 17:59 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2016-09-05 18:45 ` Felix Fietkau
2016-09-06 11:43 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-06 11:45 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-06 11:44 ` [Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH v8] " Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-06 22:04 ` Felix Fietkau
2016-09-12 12:35 ` Johannes Berg
2016-09-12 13:08 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-12 13:19 ` Johannes Berg
2016-09-22 17:04 ` [Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH v9 0/2] mac80211: TXQ dequeue path rework Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-22 17:04 ` [Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH v9 1/2] mac80211: Move ieee802111_tx_dequeue() to later in tx.c Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-30 11:13 ` Johannes Berg
2016-09-22 17:04 ` [Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH v9 2/2] mac80211: Move reorder-sensitive TX handlers to after TXQ dequeue Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-30 10:27 ` Johannes Berg
2016-09-30 12:39 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-30 12:43 ` Johannes Berg
2016-09-30 12:45 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-30 12:49 ` Johannes Berg
2016-09-30 14:01 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
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