[Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH v6 4/4] ath10k: reporting estimated tx airtime for fairness

[Kalle Valo]

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:

> The airtime of a transmitted frame will be estimated from last used tx rate
> which the firmware reports with the peer stats feature
> (WMI_SERVICE_PEER_STATS). The airtime is computed on the tx path and it
> will be reported to mac80211 upon tx completion.
> 
> This change is based on Kan's orginal commit in Chromium tree
> ("CHROMIUM: ath10k: Implementing airtime fairness based TX scheduler")
> ref: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/588190
> 
> Tested on QCA4019 with firmware version 10.4-3.2.1.1-00015
> Tested on QCA9984 with firmware version 10.4-3.9.0.1-00005
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kan Yan <kyan at google.com>
> [rmanohar at codeaurora.org: ported only the airtime computation]
> Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar at codeaurora.org>
> [toke at redhat.com: Rebase to mac80211-next, add test note]
> Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo at codeaurora.org>

There was a trivial conflict, please check my resolution in the pending branch.
I also reworded the commit log a bit.

$ git am -s --reject 10775551.mbox
Applying: ath10k: reporting estimated tx airtime for fairness
Checking patch drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.h...
Checking patch drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_rx.c...
Hunk #1 succeeded at 3080 (offset 2 lines).
Checking patch drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c...
Hunk #1 succeeded at 3566 (offset 22 lines).
Hunk #2 succeeded at 3583 (offset 22 lines).
Hunk #3 succeeded at 3971 (offset 22 lines).
Hunk #4 succeeded at 4029 (offset 22 lines).
Hunk #5 succeeded at 4047 (offset 22 lines).
Hunk #6 succeeded at 4315 (offset 22 lines).
Hunk #7 succeeded at 8671 (offset 20 lines).
Checking patch drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/txrx.c...
error: while searching for:
                wake_up(&htt->empty_tx_wq);
        spin_unlock_bh(&htt->tx_lock);

        if (ar->dev_type != ATH10K_DEV_TYPE_HL)
                dma_unmap_single(dev, skb_cb->paddr, msdu->len, DMA_TO_DEVICE);


error: patch failed: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/txrx.c:95
Applied patch drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.h cleanly.
Applied patch drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_rx.c cleanly.
Applied patch drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c cleanly.
Applying patch drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/txrx.c with 1 reject...
Rejected hunk #1.
Patch failed at 0001 ath10k: reporting estimated tx airtime for fairness

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