linux-stable.git/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c, branch v3.2

rt2x00: Add WCID to HT TX descriptor

2011-09-14T17:56:56+00:00

When sending an unencrypted frame to a STA the driver might want to pass
a suitable WCID since we don't have a key index to allow tx status
reports to get properly assigned to the correct STA.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa 
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

rt2x00: Reduce window of a queue's tx lock.

2011-07-07T17:20:58+00:00

Currently a lot of actions that can be done without the queue's tx lock
being held are done inside the locked area.
Move them out to have a leaner and meaner code that operates while the
tx lock is being held.

Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde 
Acked-by: Helmut Schaa 
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

rt2x00: Don't use queue entry as parameter when creating TX descriptor.

2011-07-07T17:20:58+00:00

The functions that create the tx descriptor structure do not operate on
a queue entry at all. Signal this fact in the code by not providing a
queue entry as a parameter, but the rt2x00 device structure and the skb
directly.

This patch is a preparation for reducing the time a queue is locked for
a tx operation.

Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde 
Acked-by: Helmut Schaa 
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

rt2x00: Serialize TX operations on a queue.

2011-07-07T17:20:57+00:00

The rt2x00 driver gets frequent occurrences of the following error message
when operating under load:
phy0 -> rt2x00queue_write_tx_frame: Error - Arrived at non-free entry in the
non-full queue 2.

This is caused by simultaneous attempts from mac80211 to send a frame via
rt2x00, which are not properly serialized inside rt2x00queue_write_tx_frame,
causing the second frame to fail sending with the above mentioned error
message.

Fix this by introducing a per-queue spinlock to serialize the TX operations
on that queue.

Reported-by: Andreas Hartmann 
Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde 
Acked-by: Helmut Schaa 
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

rt2x00: Interface sequence lock doesn't have to disable interrupts.

2011-06-01T19:10:59+00:00

This lock is only used in the TX path and thus in process context. Therefore
we can use a much lighter spinlock variant.

Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde 
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem

2011-04-25T18:34:25+00:00

Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c
	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c
	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.h

rt2x00: Merge rt2x00ht.c contents in other files.

2011-04-19T19:39:56+00:00

The two functions that are in rt2x00ht.c can be much better placed
closer to the places where the call-sites of these functions are (one
in rt2x00config.c and one in rt2x00queue.c) allowing us to make these
functions static.
Also, conditional compilations doesn't seem to be necessary anymore as
802.11n support is quite common nowadays.

This makes the code a bit easier readable and searchable.

Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde 
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

rt2x00: Decrease association time for USB devices

2011-04-19T19:39:37+00:00

When powersaving is enabled, assocaition times are very high
(for WPA2 networks, the time can easily be around the 3 seconds).

This is caused, because the flushing of the queues takes
too much time. Without the flushing callback mac80211 assumes
a timeout of 100ms while scanning. Limit all flush waiting
loops to the same maximum.

We can apply this maximum by passing the drop status to the
driver, which makes sure the driver performs extra actions
during the waiting for the queue to become empty.

After these changes, association times fall within the
healthy range of ~0.6 seconds with powersaving enabled.
The difference between association time between powersaving
enabled and disabled is now only ~0.1 second (which can also
be due to the measuring method).

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn 
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

rt2x00: fix queue timeout checks

2011-04-19T19:39:30+00:00

Add a timestamp to each queue entry which is updated whenever
the status of the entry changes, and remove the per-queue
timestamps.  The previous check was incorrect and caused both
false positives and false negatives.

With the corrected check it comes apparent that the TX status
usually times out on rt2800usb unless there is sufficient traffic
(i.e. the next TX will complete the previous TX status).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach 
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

rt2x00: Make rt2x00_queue_entry_for_each more flexible

2011-04-19T19:39:13+00:00

Allow passing a void pointer to rt2x00_queue_entry_for_each which in
turn in provided to the callback function.

Furthermore, allow the callback function to stop processing by returning
true. And also notify the caller of rt2x00_queue_entry_for_each if the
loop was canceled by the callback.

No functional changes, just preparation for an upcoming patch.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa 
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn 
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville