wifi: rtw89: pci: add new RX ring design to determine full RX ring efficiently
To make hardware efficient to determine if RX ring is full, introduce new design that checks if reading and writing indices are equal. Comparing to old design, initial indices of both reading and writing indices are 0 that means empty, and hardware checks full by "writing index + 1 == reading index". The "+1" has extra cost for hardware, so new design is to avoid this. Take ring size is 256 as an example, the initial reading and writing indices are 255 and 0 respectively; the initial values mean empty. If two indices are the same, for example 5 and 5, it means ring is full. wp rp used_cnt state 255 0 0 initial (ring is empty) 255 1 1 receive 1st packet 255 2 2 receive 2nd packet 0 2 1 driver read 1st packet 1 2 0 driver read 2nd packet (ring is empty) : 5 5 255 ring is full Note: 'rp' is hardware writing index Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231026120049.9187-4-pkshih@realtek.com
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