On 4/26/19 5:58 AM, Venkateswara Naralasetty wrote:
ath10k_dbg() is called in ath10k_process_rx() with huge set of arguments
which is causing CPU overhead even when debug_mask is not set.
Good improvement was observed in the receive side performance when call
to ath10k_dbg() is avoided in the RX path.

Since currently all debug messages are sent via tracing infrastructure,
we cannot entirely avoid calling ath10k_dbg. Therefore, call to
ath10k_dbg() is made conditional based on tracing config in the driver.

Trasmit performance remains unchanged with this patch; below are some
experimental results with this patch and tracing disabled.

mesh mode:

                w/o this patch          with this patch
Traffic       TP      CPU Usage      TP      CPU usage

TCP          840Mbps    76.53%      960Mbps    78.14%
UDP          1030Mbps   74.58%      1132Mbps   74.31%

Infra mode:

                w/o this patch          with this patch
Traffic        TP      CPU Usage      TP      CPU usage

TCP Rx       1241Mbps   80.89%      1270Mbps   73.50%
UDP Rx       1433Mbps   81.77%      1472Mbps   72.80%

Tested platform : IPQ8064
hardware used   : QCA9984
firmware ver    : ver 10.4-3.5.3-00057

Signed-off-by: Kan Yan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Venkateswara Naralasetty <[email protected]>
---
v2:
  * changed trace enabled check from IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ATH10K_TRACING)
  * to trace_ath10k_log_dbg_enabled().

  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c  |  2 ++
  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/debug.c |  8 ++++----
  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/debug.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/trace.c |  1 +
  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/trace.h |  6 +++++-
  5 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c 
b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c
index cfd7bb2..ab709bf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@
  #include "coredump.h"
unsigned int ath10k_debug_mask;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ath10k_debug_mask);
+
  static unsigned int ath10k_cryptmode_param;
  static bool uart_print;
  static bool skip_otp;
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/debug.c 
b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/debug.c
index 32d967a..1b63929 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/debug.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/debug.c
@@ -2620,8 +2620,8 @@ void ath10k_debug_unregister(struct ath10k *ar)
  #endif /* CONFIG_ATH10K_DEBUGFS */
#ifdef CONFIG_ATH10K_DEBUG
-void ath10k_dbg(struct ath10k *ar, enum ath10k_debug_mask mask,
-               const char *fmt, ...)
+void __ath10k_dbg(struct ath10k *ar, enum ath10k_debug_mask mask,
+                 const char *fmt, ...)
  {
        struct va_format vaf;
        va_list args;

Do you still need the check later in this method:

if (ath10k_debug_mask & mask)

since you already checked in the ath10k_dbg() macro?

Thanks,
Ben


--
Ben Greear <[email protected]>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


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