Subject: Re: [RFC 2/7] ath10k: Add support to process rx packet in thread

From: Rajkumar Manoharan <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 14:53:19 -0700

On 2020-07-21 10:14, Rakesh Pillai wrote:
> NAPI instance gets scheduled on a CPU core on which
> the IRQ was triggered. The processing of rx packets
> can be CPU intensive and since NAPI cannot be moved
> to a different CPU core, to get better performance,
> its better to move the gist of rx packet processing
> in a high priority thread.
> 
> Add the init/deinit part for a thread to process the
> receive packets.
> 
IMHO this defeat the whole purpose of NAPI. Originally in ath10k
irq processing happened in tasklet (high priority) context which in
turn push more data to net core even though net is unable to process
driver data as both happen in different context (fast producer - slow 
consumer)
issue. Why can't CPU governor schedule the interrupts in less loaded CPU 
core?
Otherwise you can play with different RPS and affinity settings to meet 
your
requirement.

IMO introducing high priority tasklets/threads is not viable solution.

-Rajkumar