1. 28 2月, 2009 2 次提交
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      mac80211: Extend the rate control API with an update callback · 81cb7623
      Sujith 提交于
      The AP can switch dynamically between 20/40 Mhz channel width,
      in which case we switch the local operating channel, but the
      rate control algorithm is not notified. This patch adds a new callback
      to indicate such changes to the RC algorithm.
      
      Currently, HT channel width change is notified, but this callback
      can be used to indicate any new requirements that might come up later on.
      Signed-off-by: NSujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
      Acked-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      81cb7623
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      mac80211: fix aggregation for hardware with ampdu queues · 96f5e66e
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      Hardware with AMPDU queues currently has broken aggregation.
      
      This patch fixes it by making all A-MPDUs go over the regular AC queues,
      but keeping track of the hardware queues in mac80211. As a first rough
      version, it actually stops the AC queue for extended periods of time,
      which can be removed by adding buffering internal to mac80211, but is
      currently not a huge problem because people rarely use multiple TIDs
      that are in the same AC (and iwlwifi currently doesn't operate as AP).
      
      This is a short-term fix, my current medium-term plan, which I hope to
      execute soon as well, but am not sure can finish before .30, looks like
      this:
       1) rework the internal queuing layer in mac80211 that we use for
          fragments if the driver stopped queue in the middle of a fragmented
          frame to be able to queue more frames at once (rather than just a
          single frame with its fragments)
       2) instead of stopping the entire AC queue, queue up the frames in a
          per-station/per-TID queue during aggregation session initiation,
          when the session has come up take all those frames and put them
          onto the queue from 1)
       3) push the ampdu queue layer abstraction this patch introduces in
          mac80211 into the driver, and remove the virtual queue stuff from
          mac80211 again
      
      This plan will probably also affect ath9k in that mac80211 queues the
      frames instead of passing them down, even when there are no ampdu queues.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      96f5e66e
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  10. 19 11月, 2008 1 次提交
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      mac80211: remove ieee80211_notify_mac · 8e3bad65
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      Before ieee80211_notify_mac() was added, it was presented with the
      use case of using it to tell mac80211 that the association may
      have been lost because the firmware crashed/reset.
      
      Since then, it has also been used by iwlwifi to (slightly) speed
      up re-association after resume, a workaround around the fact that
      mac80211 has no suspend/resume handling yet. It is also not used
      by any other drivers, so clearly it cannot be necessary for "good
      enough" suspend/resume.
      
      Unfortunately, the callback suffers from a severe problem: It only
      works for station mode. If suspend/resume happens while in IBSS or
      any other mode (but station), then the callback is pointless.
      
      Recently, it has created a number of locking issues, first because
      it required rtnl locking rather than RCU due to calling sleeping
      functions within the critical section, and now because it's called
      by iwlwifi from the mac80211 workqueue that may not use the rtnl
      because it is flushed under rtnl.
      (cf. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12046)
      
      I think, therefore, that we should take a step back, remove it
      entirely for now and add the small feature it provided properly.
      For suspend and resume we will need to introduce new hooks, and for
      the case where the firmware was reset the driver will probably
      simply just pretend it has done a suspend/resume cycle to get
      mac80211 to reprogram the hardware completely, not just try to
      connect to the current AP again in station mode. When doing so, we
      will need to take into account locking issues and possibly defer
      to schedule_work from within mac80211 for the resume operation,
      while the suspend operation must be done directly.
      
      Proper suspend/resume should also not necessarily try to reconnect
      to the current AP, the time spent in suspend may have been short
      enough to not be disconnected from the AP, mac80211 will detect
      that the AP went out of range quickly if it did, and if the
      association is lost then the AP will disassoc as soon as a data
      frame is sent. We might also take into account WWOL then, and
      have mac80211 program the hardware into such a mode where it is
      available and requested.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      8e3bad65
  11. 11 11月, 2008 2 次提交