On 27/08/20 12:36 pm, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> 27.08.2020 09:45, Adrian Hunter пишет:
>> On 27/08/20 9:07 am, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> I was debugging WiFi performance problems on Acer A500 tablet device
>>> that has BCM4329 WiFi chip which is connected to NVIDIA Terga20 SoC via
>>> SDIO and found that the following commit causes a solid 5-10 Mbit/s of
>>> WiFi throughput regression after 5.2 kernel:
>>
>> What is that in percentage terms?
> 
> That is about 20%.
> 
>>> commit c07a48c2651965e84d35cf193dfc0e5f7892d612
>>> Author: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
>>> Date:   Fri Apr 5 15:40:20 2019 +0300
>>>
>>>     mmc: sdhci: Remove finish_tasklet
>>>
>>>     Remove finish_tasklet. Requests that require DMA-unmapping or
>>> sdhci_reset
>>>     are completed either in the IRQ thread or a workqueue if the
>>> completion is
>>>     not initiated by the IRQ.
>>>
>>> Reverting the offending commit on top of recent linux-next resolves the
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> Ulf / Adrian, do you have any ideas what could be done in regards to
>>> restoring the SDIO performance? Should we just revert the offending commit?
>>>
>>
>> Unfortunately I think we are past the point of returning to the tasklet.
>>
>> sdhci can complete requests in the irq handler but only if ->pre_req() and
>> ->post_req() are used, which is not supported by SDIO at present.  pre_req
>> and post_req were introduced to reduce latency for the block driver, so it
>> seems reasonable perhaps to look at using them in SDIO as well.
>>
> 
> I'll try to take a look at pre/post_req(), but I'm not very familiar
> with the MMC code, so it may take quite some time. Will be great if you
> could help with making a patch that I could test!
> 

You could start by seeing if using pre/post_req helps at all, as below.
If that doesn't help, then it might need more analysis.


diff --git a/drivers/mmc/core/sdio_ops.c b/drivers/mmc/core/sdio_ops.c
index 93d346c01110..4c229dd2b6e5 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/core/sdio_ops.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/core/sdio_ops.c
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ int mmc_io_rw_extended(struct mmc_card *card, int write, 
unsigned fn,
        struct sg_table sgtable;
        unsigned int nents, left_size, i;
        unsigned int seg_size = card->host->max_seg_size;
+       int err;
 
        WARN_ON(blksz == 0);
 
@@ -170,28 +171,32 @@ int mmc_io_rw_extended(struct mmc_card *card, int write, 
unsigned fn,
 
        mmc_set_data_timeout(&data, card);
 
-       mmc_wait_for_req(card->host, &mrq);
+       mmc_pre_req(card->host, &mrq);
 
-       if (nents > 1)
-               sg_free_table(&sgtable);
+       mmc_wait_for_req(card->host, &mrq);
 
        if (cmd.error)
-               return cmd.error;
-       if (data.error)
-               return data.error;
-
-       if (mmc_host_is_spi(card->host)) {
+               err = cmd.error;
+       else if (data.error)
+               err = data.error;
+       else if (mmc_host_is_spi(card->host))
                /* host driver already reported errors */
-       } else {
-               if (cmd.resp[0] & R5_ERROR)
-                       return -EIO;
-               if (cmd.resp[0] & R5_FUNCTION_NUMBER)
-                       return -EINVAL;
-               if (cmd.resp[0] & R5_OUT_OF_RANGE)
-                       return -ERANGE;
-       }
+               err = 0;
+       else if (cmd.resp[0] & R5_ERROR)
+               err = -EIO;
+       else if (cmd.resp[0] & R5_FUNCTION_NUMBER)
+               err = -EINVAL;
+       else if (cmd.resp[0] & R5_OUT_OF_RANGE)
+               err = -ERANGE;
+       else
+               err = 0;
 
-       return 0;
+       mmc_post_req(card->host, &mrq, err);
+
+       if (nents > 1)
+               sg_free_table(&sgtable);
+
+       return err;
 }
 
 int sdio_reset(struct mmc_host *host)


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