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2012-03-06mac80211: fix mesh airtime link metric estimatingThomas Pedersen1-0/+3
Airtime link metric estimation was broken in HT mesh, use cfg80211_calculate_bitrate to get the right rate value. Also factor out tx rate copying from sta_set_sinfo(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-03-05mac80211: use compare_ether_addr on MAC addresses instead of memcmpFelix Fietkau1-1/+2
Because of the constant size and guaranteed 16 bit alignment, the inline compare_ether_addr function is much cheaper than calling memcmp. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-02-06mac80211: call rate control only after initJohannes Berg1-0/+2
There are situations where we don't have the necessary rate control information yet for station entries, e.g. when associating. This currently doesn't really happen due to the dummy station handling; explicitly disabling rate control when it's not initialised will allow us to remove dummy stations. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-02-06mac80211: remove dummy STA supportJohannes Berg1-29/+1
The dummy STA support was added because I didn't want to change the driver API at the time. Now that we have state transitions triggering station add/remove in the driver, we only call add once a station reaches ASSOCIATED, so we can remove the dummy station stuff again. While at it, tighten the RX check and accept only port control (EAP) frames from the AP station if it's not associated yet -- in other cases there's no race. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-02-06mac80211: add sta_state callbackJohannes Berg1-9/+0
(based on Eliad's patch) Add a callback to notify the low-level driver whenever the state of a station changes. The driver is only notified when the station is actually in the mac80211 hash table, not for pre-insert state transitions. To allow the driver to replace sta_add/remove calls with this, call extra transitions with the NOTEXIST state. This callback can fail, so we need to be careful in handling it when a station is inserted, particularly in the IBSS case where we still keep the station entry around for mac80211 purposes. Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-02-06mac80211: add NOTEXIST station stateJohannes Berg1-0/+1
This will be used by drivers later if they need to have stations inserted all the time, in mac80211 has no purpose, is never used and sta_state starts out in NONE. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-01-30mac80211: station state transition error handlingJohannes Berg1-5/+12
In the future, when we start notifying drivers, state transitions could potentially fail. To make it easier to distinguish between programming bugs and driver failures: * rename sta_info_move_state() to sta_info_pre_move_state() which can only be called before the station is inserted (and check this with a new station flag). * rename sta_info_move_state_checked() to just plain sta_info_move_state(), as it will be the regular function that can fail for more than just one reason (bad transition or an error from the driver) This makes the programming model easier -- one of the functions can only be called before insertion and can't fail, the other can fail. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-19cfg80211: Return beacon loss count in stationPaul Stewart1-0/+2
If station info contains a beacon loss count, return it to userspace. Signed-off-by: Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-19mac80211: split addba retries in timeNikolay Martynov1-1/+5
Currently code allows three (HT_AGG_MAX_RETRIES) unanswered addba requests. When this limit is reached aggregation is turned off for given TID permanently. This doesn't seem right: three requests is not that much, some 'blackout' can happen, but effect of it affects whole connection indefinitely. This patch increases number of retries to 15. Also, when there have been 3 or more retries it splits further retries apart by 15 seconds instead of sending them in very short period of time. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Martynov <mar.kolya@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-15mac80211: make address arguments to sta_info_alloc constJohannes Berg1-1/+1
No real changes, just note that they are const. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-15mac80211: refactor station state transitionsJohannes Berg1-0/+37
Station entries can have various states, the most important ones being auth, assoc and authorized. This patch prepares us for telling the driver about these states, we don't want to confuse drivers with strange transitions, so with this we enforce that they move in the right order between them (back and forth); some transitions might happen before the driver even knows about the station, but at least runtime transitions will be ordered correctly. As a consequence, IBSS and MESH stations will now have the ASSOC flag set (so they can transition to AUTHORIZED), and we can get rid of a special case in TX processing. When freeing a station, unwind the state so that other parts of the code (or drivers later) can rely on the transitions. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-30mac80211: remove unused function declarationMohammed Shafi Shajakhan1-1/+0
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-28mac80211: timeout tx agg sessions in way similar to rx agg sessionsNikolay Martynov1-0/+2
Currently tx aggregation is not being timed out even if timeout is specified when aggregation is opened. Tx tid stays active until delba arrives from recipient (i.e. recipient times out tid when it is inactive). The problem with this approach is that delba can get lost in the air and tx tid will stay perpetually opened on the originator while closed on recipient thus all data sent via this tid will be lost. This patch implements tx tid timeouting in way very similar to rx tid timeouting. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Martynov <mar.kolya@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-21mac80211: remove unused ASSOC_AP flagJohannes Berg1-2/+0
WLAN_STA_ASSOC_AP indicates that the station entry is for an AP we're associated to but isn't used so remove it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09mac80211: send unexpected 4addr eventJohannes Berg1-0/+8
Implement the cfg80211 notification but only send one event per associated station to avoid having tons of events if the station thinks it should be allowed to use 4addr frames but it isn't. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30mac80211: optimise station flagsJohannes Berg1-70/+34
The flaglock in struct sta_info has long been something that I wanted to get rid of, this finally does the conversion to atomic bitops. The conversion itself is straight-forward in most places, a few things needed to change a bit since we can no longer use multiple bits at the same time. On x86-64, this is a fairly significant code size reduction: text data bss dec hex 427861 23648 1008 452517 6e7a5 before 425383 23648 976 450007 6ddd7 after Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30mac80211: reply only once to each PS-pollJohannes Berg1-1/+1
If a PS-poll frame is retried (but was received) there is no way to detect that since it has no sequence number. As a consequence, the standard asks us to not react to PS-poll frames until the response to one made it out (was ACKed or lost). Implement this by using the WLAN_STA_SP flags to also indicate a PS-Poll "service period" and the IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_EOSP flag for the response packet to indicate the end of the "SP" as usual. We could use separate flags, but that will most likely completely confuse drivers, and while the standard doesn't exclude simultaneously polling using uAPSD and PS-Poll, doing that seems quite problematic. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30mac80211: implement uAPSDJohannes Berg1-0/+8
Add uAPSD support to mac80211. This is probably not possible with all devices, so advertising it with the cfg80211 flag will be left up to drivers that want it. Due to my previous patches it is now a fairly straight-forward extension. Drivers need to have accurate TX status reporting for the EOSP frame. For drivers that buffer themselves, the provided APIs allow releasing the right number of frames, but then drivers need to set EOSP and more-data themselves. This is documented in more detail in the new code itself. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30mac80211: split PS buffers into ACsJohannes Berg1-12/+12
For uAPSD support we'll need to have per-AC PS buffers. As this is a major undertaking, split the buffers before really adding support for uAPSD. This already makes some reference to the uapsd_queues variable, but for now that will never be non-zero. Since book-keeping is complicated, also change the logic for keeping a maximum of frames only and allow 64 frames per AC (up from 128 for a station). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30mac80211: unify TIM bit handlingJohannes Berg1-2/+1
Currently, the TIM bit for a given station is set and cleared all over the place. Since the logic to set/clear it will become much more complex when we add uAPSD support, as a first step let's collect the entire logic in one place. This requires a few small adjustments to other places. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30mac80211: data path modification for TDLS peersArik Nemtsov1-1/+4
Mark the STA entries of enabled TDLS peers with a new "peer authorized" flag. During link setup, allow special TDLS setup frames through the AP, but otherwise drop all packets destined to the peer. This is required by the TDLS (802.11z) specification in order to prevent reordering of MSDUs between the AP and direct paths. When setup completes and the peer is authorized, send data directly, bypassing the AP. In the Rx path, allow data to be received directly from TDLS peers. Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com> Cc: Kalyan C Gaddam <chakkal@iit.edu> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30nl80211/mac80211: allow adding TDLS peers as stationsArik Nemtsov1-0/+2
When adding a TDLS peer STA, mark it with a new flag in both nl80211 and mac80211. Before adding a peer, make sure the wiphy supports TDLS and our operating mode is appropriate (managed). In addition, make sure all peers are removed on disassociation. A TDLS peer is first added just before link setup is initiated. In later setup stages we have more info about peer supported rates, capabilities, etc. This info is reported via nl80211_set_station(). Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com> Cc: Kalyan C Gaddam <chakkal@iit.edu> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-13mac80211: retry sending failed BAR frames later instead of tearing down aggrFelix Fietkau1-0/+5
Unfortunately failed BAR tx attempts happen more frequently than I expected, and the resulting aggregation teardowns cause performance issues, as the aggregation session does not always get re-established properly. Instead of tearing down the entire aggr session, we can simply store the SSN of the last failed BAR tx attempt, wait for the first successful tx status event, and then send another BAR with the same SSN. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-26mac80211: fix race condition between assoc_done and first EAP packetGuy Eilam1-1/+29
When associating to an AP, the station might miss the first EAP packet that the AP sends due to a race condition between the association success procedure and the rx flow in mac80211. In such cases, the packet might fall in ieee80211_rx_h_check due to the fact that the relevant rx->sta wasn't allocated yet. Allocation of the relevant station info struct before actually sending the association request and setting it with a new dummy_sta flag solve this problem. The station will accept only EAP packets from the AP while it is in the pre-association/dummy state. This dummy station entry is not seen by normal sta_info_get() calls, only by sta_info_get_bss_rx(). The driver is not notified for the first insertion of the dummy station. The driver is notified only after the association is complete and the dummy flag is removed from the station entry. That way, all the rest of the code flow should be untouched by this change. Signed-off-by: Guy Eilam <guy@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-07-08mac80211: simplify RX PN/IV handlingJohannes Berg1-1/+2
The current rx->queue value is slightly confusing. It is set to 16 on non-QoS frames, including data, and then used for sequence number and PN/IV checks. Until recently, we had a TKIP IV checking bug that had been introduced in 2008 to fix a seqno issue. Before that, we always used TID 0 for checking the PN or IV on non-QoS packets. Go back to the old status for PN/IV checks using the TID 0 counter for non-QoS by splitting up the rx->queue value into "seqno_idx" and "security_idx" in order to avoid confusion in the future. They each have special rules on the value used for non- QoS data frames. Since the handling is now unified, also revert the special TKIP handling from my patch "mac80211: fix TKIP replay vulnerability". Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-06-07mac80211: Stop BA session event from deviceShahar Levi1-0/+3
Some devices support BT/WLAN co-existence algorigthms. In order not to harm the system performance and user experience, the device requests not to allow any RX BA session and tear down existing RX BA sessions based on system constraints such as periodic BT activity that needs to limit WLAN activity (eg.SCO or A2DP). In such cases, the intention is to limit the duration of the RX PPDU and therefore prevent the peer device to use A-MPDU aggregation. Adding ieee80211_stop_rx_ba_session() callback that can be used by the driver to stop existing BA sessions. Signed-off-by: Shahar Levi <shahar_levi@ti.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-05-16nl80211: Move peer link state definition to nl80211Javier Cardona1-3/+3
These definitions need to be exposed now that we can set the peer link states via NL80211_ATTR_STA_PLINK_STATE. They were already being (opaquely) reported by NL80211_STA_INFO_PLINK_STATE. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-05-16mac80211: sparse RCU annotationsJohannes Berg1-5/+12
This adds sparse RCU annotations to most of mac80211, only the mesh code remains to be done. Due the the previous patches, the annotations are pretty simple. The only thing that this actually changes is removing the RCU usage of key->sta in debugfs since this pointer isn't actually an RCU-managed pointer (it only has a single assignment done before the key even goes live). As that is otherwise harmless, I decided to make it part of this patch. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-05-16mac80211: fix TX a-MPDU lockingJohannes Berg1-0/+4
During my quest to make mac80211 not have any RCU warnings from sparse, I came across the a-MPDU code again and it wasn't quite clear why it isn't racy. So instead of assigning the tid_tx array with just the spinlock held in ieee80211_start_tx_ba_session use a separate temporary array protected only by the spinlock and protect all assignments to the "live" array by both the spinlock and the mutex so that other code is easily verified to be correct. Due to pointer assignment atomicity I don't think this is a real issue, but I'm not sure, especially on Alpha the current code might be problematic. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-05-11nl80211: Let userspace drive the peer link management states.Javier Cardona1-23/+0
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-04-19mac80211: add a function for setting the TIM bit for a specific stationFelix Fietkau1-0/+3
This allows a driver to buffer frames for a PS station and tell mac80211 to wake it up even though mac80211 does not have any buffered frames for it. This is necessary for properly handling aggregation related buffering, in ath9k, because the driver needs to keep its frames in order to keep track of the Block-ACK window. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-04-12{mac|nl}80211: Add station connected timeMohammed Shafi Shajakhan1-0/+2
Add station connected time in debugfs. This will be helpful to get a measure of stability of the connection and for debugging stress issues Cc: Senthilkumar Balasubramanian <Senthilkumar.Balasubramanian@Atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-04-04mac80211: clean up station cleanup timerJohannes Berg1-1/+0
We currently run this timer exactly once when a new mac80211 device is registered, but that is completely pointless since it will have no work to do at all. Therefore, remove that and also simplify some code using the timer. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-01mac80211: add support for showing the last rx bitrateFelix Fietkau1-0/+4
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-19mac80211: track receiver's aggregation reorder buffer sizeJohannes Berg1-0/+2
The aggregation code currently doesn't implement the buffer size negotiation. It will always request a max buffer size (which is fine, if a little pointless, as the mac80211 code doesn't know and might just use 0 instead), but if the peer requests a smaller size it isn't possible to honour this request. In order to fix this, look at the buffer size in the addBA response frame, keep track of it and pass it to the driver in the ampdu_action callback when called with the IEEE80211_AMPDU_TX_OPERATIONAL action. That way the driver can limit the number of subframes in aggregates appropriately. Note that this doesn't fix any drivers apart from the addition of the new argument -- they all need to be updated separately to use this variable! Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-15mac80211: Add timeout to BA session start APISujith Manoharan1-0/+2
Allow drivers or rate control algorithms to specify BlockAck session timeout when initiating an ADDBA transaction. This is useful in cases where maintaining persistent BA sessions does not incur any overhead. The current timeout value of 5000 TUs is retained for all non ath9k/ath9k_htc drivers. Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-07nl80211/mac80211: Report signal averageBruno Randolf1-0/+3
Extend nl80211 to report an exponential weighted moving average (EWMA) of the signal value. Since the signal value usually fluctuates between different packets, an average can be more useful than the value of the last packet. This uses the recently added generic EWMA library function. -- v2: fix ABI breakage and change factor to be a power of 2. Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-29mac80211: fix RX aggregation lockingJohannes Berg1-15/+14
The RX aggregation locking documentation was wrong, which led Christian to also code the timer timeout handling for it somewhat wrongly. Fix the documentation, the two places that need to hold the reorder lock across accesses to the structure, and the debugfs code that should just use RCU. Also, remove acquiring the sta->lock across reorder timeouts since it isn't necessary, and change a few places to GFP_KERNEL because the code path here doesn't need atomic allocations as I noticed when reviewing all this. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-24mac80211: implement packet loss notificationJohannes Berg1-0/+3
For drivers that have accurate TX status reporting we can report the number of consecutive lost packets to userspace using the new cfg80211 CQM event. The threshold is fixed right now, this may need to be improved in the future. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-24Revert "nl80211/mac80211: Report signal average"John W. Linville1-3/+0
This reverts commit 86107fd170bc379869250eb7e1bd393a3a70e8ae. This patch inadvertantly changed the userland ABI. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-18nl80211/mac80211: Report signal averageBruno Randolf1-0/+3
Extend nl80211 to report an exponential weighted moving average (EWMA) of the signal value. Since the signal value usually fluctuates between different packets, an average can be more useful than the value of the last packet. This uses the recently added generic EWMA library function. Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-06cfg80211/mac80211: allow per-station GTKsJohannes Berg1-2/+4
This adds API to allow adding per-station GTKs, updates mac80211 to support it, and also allows drivers to remove a key from hwaccel again when this may be necessary due to multiple GTKs. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-06mac80211: avoid transmitting delBA to old APJohannes Berg1-0/+2
When roaming while we have active BA session, we can end up transmitting delBA frames to the old AP while we're already on the new AP's channel, which can cause warnings. Simply avoid sending those frames, but still tear down the internal session state, since they are not really necessary anyway as we will implicitly disassociate when sending the association to the new AP. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16mac80211: AMPDU rx reorder timeout timerChristian Lamparter1-5/+11
This patch introduces a new timer, which will release queued-up MPDUs from the reorder buffer, whenever they've waited for more than HT_RX_REORDER_BUF_TIMEOUT (which is at around 100 ms). The advantage of having a dedicated timer, instead of relying on a constant stream of freshly arriving aMPDUs to release the old ones, is particularly observable when even a small fraction of MPDUs are forever lost at low network speeds. Previously under these circumstances frames would become stuck in the reorder buffer and the network stack of both HT peers throttled back, instead of revving up and gunning the pipes. Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-28mac80211: fix the for_each_sta_info macroFelix Fietkau1-8/+8
Because of an ambiguity in the for_each_sta_info macro, it can currently only be used if the third parameter is set to 'sta'. Fix this by renaming the parameter to '_sta'. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-14mac80211: change RX aggregation lockingJohannes Berg1-0/+3
To prepare for allowing drivers to sleep in ampdu_action, change the locking in the RX aggregation code to use a mutex, so that it would already allow drivers to sleep. But explicitly disable BHs around the callback for now since the TX part cannot yet sleep, and drivers' locking might require it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-14mac80211: defer RX agg session teardown to workJohannes Berg1-0/+3
Since we want the code to be able to sleep in the future, it must not be called from the timer directly. To prepare, move it out into the aggregation work. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-14mac80211: make TX aggregation start/stop request asyncJohannes Berg1-2/+4
When the driver or rate control requests starting or stopping an aggregation session, that currently causes a direct callback into the driver, which could potentially cause locking problems. Also, the functions need to be callable from contexts that cannot sleep, and thus will interfere with making the ampdu_action callback sleeping. To address these issues, add a new work item for each station that will process any start or stop requests out of line. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-14mac80211: use RCU for TX aggregationJohannes Berg1-14/+19
Currently we allocate some memory for each TX aggregation session and additionally keep a state bitmap indicating the state it is in. By using RCU to protect the pointer, moving the state into the structure and some locking trickery we can avoid locking when the TX agg session is fully operational. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-14mac80211: use RCU for RX aggregationJohannes Berg1-3/+11
Currently we allocate some memory for each RX aggregation session and additionally keep a flag indicating whether or not it is valid. By using RCU to protect the pointer and making sure that the memory is fully set up before it becomes visible to the RX path, we can remove the need for the bool that indicates validity, as well as for locking on the RX path since it is always synchronised against itself, and we can guarantee that all other modifications are done when the structure is not visible to the RX path. The net result is that since we remove locking requirements from the RX path, we can in the future use any kind of lock for the setup and teardown code paths. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>