[Make-wifi-fast] ath10k fq_codel support

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

That's because the LEDE WiFi stack was just rebased on a newer upstream. But the patch that disables it is upstream, so it'll still be disabled, I think...

-Toke

On 13 October 2016 18:08:12 CEST, Noah Causin <n0manletter at gmail.com> wrote:
>It seems like the patch in LEDE was removed 5 days ago.
>
>https://github.com/lede-project/source/commit/ad51e09fd1301484820a466a49447a34d7504882
>
>Search the page for:
>
>311-ath10k-disable-wake_tx_queue-for-older-devices.patch
>
>I'm going to compile a new build for my Archer C7 and see.
>
>
>On 10/13/2016 11:59 AM, Michal Kazior wrote:
>> On 13 Octsuppber 2016 at 17:41, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk>
>wrote:
>>> Noah Causin <n0manletter at gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I was looking into getting an Ubiquiti Unifi AC-Pro to flash LEDE
>onto for
>>>> testing the ath10k performance and latency with fq_codel.
>>>>
>>>> I already have an Archer C7 V2 which uses the
>ath10k-firmware-qca988x package,
>>>> which the Unifi AC-Pro and Lite seem to use.
>>>>
>>>> Would I have all I need if I flashed the latest git version of
>LEDE?
>>>>
>>>> Also, what firmware versions support the intermediate software
>queues,
>>>> and would my Archer C7 be fine for preliminary testing?
>>> You can check if it's active by seeing if you can read
>>> /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/aqm - if that exists and outputs
>>> anything when you 'cat' it, the intermediate queues are active.
>>>
>>> They are disabled for some hardware revisions, but not sure which
>ones.
>> wake_tx_queue is disabled if fw doesn't advertise flow control
>support
>> (which is supported in qca99xx and qca40xx chip fw blobs only so
>far).
>>
>> qca988x found in archer c7 will have it disabled.
>>
>> The patch that disables it is [1]. You can revert it or tinker around
>> the logic it introduced if you want to force fq_codel.
>>
>> [1]:
>https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k?id=4ca1807815aa6801aaced7fdefa9edacc2521767
>>
>>
>> Michal