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I Sped up mt76 USB WIFI ~1.5x with a kernel patch that has been acked for mainline (opens in new tab)

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``` From: Filip Bakreski To: nbd@nbd.name, lorenzo@kernel.org, ryder.lee@mediatek.com Cc: shayne.chen@mediatek.com, sean.wang@mediatek.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v3] wifi: mt76: mt76u: use a threaded NAPI for the RX path Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 20:53:01 +1000 [thread overview] Message-ID: (raw) The USB RX path delivers frames to the stack via mt76_rx_complete() with a NULL napi pointer, taking the netif_receive_skb_list() path, so it never benefits from GRO -- unlik...

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