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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2012-04-03 16:28:50 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2012-04-11 16:23:50 -0400
commit3a25a8c8b75b430c4f4022918e26fa51d557ecde (patch)
treed4863b7f17c2ea44fb523e29951b6bd202ddb1ad /net/mac80211/cfg.c
parent4b6f1dd6a6faf4ed8d209bbd548e78b15e55aee8 (diff)
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mac80211: add improved HW queue control
mac80211 currently only supports one hardware queue per AC. This is already problematic for off-channel uses since if we go off channel while the BE queue is full and then try to send an off-channel frame the frame will never go out. This will become worse when we support multi-channel since then a queue on one channel might be full, but we have to stop the software queue for all channels. That is obviously not desirable. To address this problem allow drivers to register more hardware queues, and allow them to map them to virtual interfaces. When they stop a hardware queue the corresponding AC software queues on the correct interfaces will be stopped as well. Additionally, there's an off-channel queue to solve that problem and a per-interface after-DTIM beacon queue. This allows drivers to manage software queues closer to how the hardware works. Currently, there's a limit of 16 hardware queues. This may or may not be sufficient, we can adjust it as needed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/cfg.c')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/cfg.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
index 667d93943399..d6163b98f7b7 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -2106,6 +2106,10 @@ static int ieee80211_mgmt_tx(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb)->flags = flags;
+ if (flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_TX_OFFCHAN)
+ IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb)->hw_queue =
+ local->hw.offchannel_tx_hw_queue;
+
skb->dev = sdata->dev;
*cookie = (unsigned long) skb;
@@ -2147,6 +2151,8 @@ static int ieee80211_mgmt_tx(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
/* modify cookie to prevent API mismatches */
*cookie ^= 2;
IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb)->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_CTL_TX_OFFCHAN;
+ IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb)->hw_queue =
+ local->hw.offchannel_tx_hw_queue;
local->hw_roc_skb = skb;
local->hw_roc_skb_for_status = skb;
mutex_unlock(&local->mtx);
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