We switched to mac80211 5.15 backport version.
Also switch ath10k-ct to 5.15 and drop the mac address patch
that got merged upstream.
Compile and tested on ipq806x Netgear R7800.
Also update the ath10k-ct to latest version to fix a typo
for the new version in the kernel log.
Signed-off-by: Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
Let's switch to 5.10 now that mac80211 has been updated.
Runtime-tested on ipq806x (Netgear R7800).
Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari@gmail.com>
Since we are using mac80211 5.8, let's also switch the ath10k-ct driver
to the new 5.8 version.
Modify patches so they patch the new ath10k-ct driver version.
Adapt 164-ath10k-commit-rates-from-mac80211.patch.
Drop upstreamed 205-ath10k-Add-NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_AQL-flag.patch.
Drop the other options for CT_KVER from the comment, as it is incorrect
and there are too many versions to sum up and maintain there.
Runtime-tested on ath79 (D-Link DAP-2695-A1, TP-Link EAP245-v3).
Signed-off-by: Stijn Tintel <stijn@linux-ipv6.be>
According to many bugreports [0][1][2] the default ath10k-ct kernel
module is unusable on devices with just 64 MiB RAM or with 128 MiB and
dual ath10k cards. The target boards boot but eventually oom-killer
starts to interfere with normal operation, so the current state is
effectively broken.
Since the two patches in question have a performance impact (and
possibly some other unexpected side-effects) a dedicated build variant
is added so that users of the low RAM devices can still benefit from all
the ath10k-ct advantages.
According to testing [3] results, the issue can be experienced even with
"a 256MB device with three radios". Measured performance impact of
implementing small buffers was lowering "the maximum 5 GHz throughput on
an IPQ40xx device without RPS/XPS optimizations from 494/432 Mbit/s for
TCP transfers (download/upload) to 438/343 Mbit/s"
The patches were apparently inspired by QSDK tweaks used by ODMs for the
affected devices.
[0] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2019-December/020573.html
[1] https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/1077
[2] https://bugs.openwrt.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=2664
[3] https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/pull/1440#issue-195607701
Signed-off-by: Paul Fertser <fercerpav@gmail.com>
[Remove double CONFIG_ATH10K-CT_LEDS entry]
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Ansuel Smith