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authorIdo Yariv <ido@wizery.com>2010-09-30 13:28:27 +0200
committerLuciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>2010-10-05 16:27:29 +0300
commit1f37cbc9363462c99794699442da39f36be0aaf7 (patch)
tree3f7bf42c5fa78b08010071da8f1977234e255c64 /drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
parent5c57a901dc96fc81d0041282269b43542f170d2a (diff)
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wl1271: Support firmware RX packet aggregation
Instead of retrieving one packet at a time from the firmware, try to retrieve all available packets at once. This optimization decreases the number of transactions, which saves CPU cycles and increases network throughput. Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com> Tested-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c15
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
index cb18f22bbc5c..8071da10dbc9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
@@ -2459,6 +2459,7 @@ struct ieee80211_hw *wl1271_alloc_hw(void)
struct platform_device *plat_dev = NULL;
struct wl1271 *wl;
int i, ret;
+ unsigned int order;
hw = ieee80211_alloc_hw(sizeof(*wl), &wl1271_ops);
if (!hw) {
@@ -2517,11 +2518,18 @@ struct ieee80211_hw *wl1271_alloc_hw(void)
wl1271_debugfs_init(wl);
+ order = get_order(WL1271_AGGR_BUFFER_SIZE);
+ wl->aggr_buf = (u8 *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, order);
+ if (!wl->aggr_buf) {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ goto err_hw;
+ }
+
/* Register platform device */
ret = platform_device_register(wl->plat_dev);
if (ret) {
wl1271_error("couldn't register platform device");
- goto err_hw;
+ goto err_aggr;
}
dev_set_drvdata(&wl->plat_dev->dev, wl);
@@ -2547,6 +2555,9 @@ err_bt_coex_state:
err_platform:
platform_device_unregister(wl->plat_dev);
+err_aggr:
+ free_pages((unsigned long)wl->aggr_buf, order);
+
err_hw:
wl1271_debugfs_exit(wl);
kfree(plat_dev);
@@ -2563,6 +2574,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wl1271_alloc_hw);
int wl1271_free_hw(struct wl1271 *wl)
{
platform_device_unregister(wl->plat_dev);
+ free_pages((unsigned long)wl->aggr_buf,
+ get_order(WL1271_AGGR_BUFFER_SIZE));
kfree(wl->plat_dev);
wl1271_debugfs_exit(wl);
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