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Felix Fietkau
43d3534344 mac80211: force use_short_slot=true for 5GHz
Normally 5GHz does not have a concept of long vs short slot time,
however the slot time that it ends up using is the same as for 2.4 GHZ
and use_short_slot == true
Because of that, it makes more sense to force use_short_slot = true
whenever 5 GHz is being used, so that this particular check does not
have to be in every single driver that uses this flag.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-15 17:02:07 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
84920e3e47 cfg80211: make regulatory_hint_11d() band specific
In practice APs do not send country IE channel triplets for channels
the AP is not operating on and if they were to do so they would have
to use the regulatory extension which we currently do not process.
No AP has been seen in practice that does this though so just drop
those country IEs.

Additionally it has been noted the first series of country IE
channels triplets are specific to the band the AP sends. Propagate
the band on which the country IE was found on reject the country
IE then if the triplets are ever oustide of the band.

Although we now won't process country IE information with multiple
band information we leave the intersection work as is as it is
technically possible for someone to want to eventually process these
type of country IEs with regulatory extensions.

Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-15 17:02:06 -05:00
Benoit Papillault
93895757df mac80211: Fixed netif_tx_wake_all_queues in IBSS mode
When ieee80211_offchannel_return is called, it needs to re-enabled TX
queues that have been stopped in ieee80211_offchannel_stop_beaconing or
ieee80211_offchannel_stop_station. It happens if we are doing a scan with an
IBSS interface. In this case, the interface stopped transmitting.

Signed-off-by: Benoit Papillault <benoit.papillault@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-15 16:58:28 -05:00
Larry Finger
b6b1ac6937 Staging: r8187se: Fix compile error from wireless-testing commit 7044cc56
In wireless-testing, commit 7044cc56 added struct ieee80211_hdr_3addr
to include/linux/ieee80211.h. This definition collides with one that is
in the r8187se driver in staging.

The conflict is resolved by changing r8187se to use the definition from
include/linuc/ieee80211.h.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-14 18:16:57 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
a0f2e0fca1 cfg80211: Ingore country IEs with a zero set of number of channels
Previous to this and the last patch, titled,

"cfg80211: Fix 2 GHz subband calculation for country IEs"

we would end up treating these IEs as single channel units. These are in
fact just bogus IE triplets so ignore the entire IE if these are found.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-14 18:16:56 -05:00
Kalle Valo
c99445b140 mac80211: improve powersave documentation
There has been some confusion how drivers should implement powersave
support. Improve the documentation a bit to make it more clear what
drivers need to do. Also mention about U-APSD.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-14 18:16:56 -05:00
Kalle Valo
9d173fc5df mac80211: fix mac80211.h documentation warnings
There were some warnings about missing documentation and a missing reference.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-14 18:16:55 -05:00
Sujith
5e4ea1f0ed ath9k: Fix panic on driver load
The device has to be marked as invalid before
registering the ISR. HW initialization takes place
after the ISR has been registered, and the invalid
flag is eventually cleared in the ->stop() callback.

Reported-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-14 18:16:55 -05:00
Christoph Egger
2f1f00fc9b Remove config option B43_LEGACY_RFKILL completely
In f41f3f373d the B43 driver was ported
to use the cfg80211 API for rfkill and consequently the config option
was dropped (RFKILL is now unconditionally enabled).

However in the Kernel Info the feature is still checked and reported
missing. This patch just removes the conditional and the relevant code
blocks while still reporting that feature unconditionally would be
another option (it's always there).

Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <siccegge@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-14 18:16:54 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
ececeecee8 wl1271: remove unused flags
These are unused and as with a previous patch 5ef5da for wl1251
this removes some other unused flags. the IRQ_MASK specifically
conflicts with include/pcmcia/cs.h when using compat-wireless.

Cc: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-14 18:16:54 -05:00
Tim Gardner
c2f4f527ed b43legacy: Declare all possible ucodeX.fw files
Enhance module information with the names of the firmware files
that could be used by this driver. This helps tools like Jockey to
correctly detect and/or install the firmware files relevant to
this driver.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-14 18:16:54 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
e99c7cd57b cfg80211: fix 2 GHz subband calculation for country IEs
Country IEs triplets are getting an extra channel with
the current count. This does not affect regulatory because
we always took the intersection between what the AP gave
and what CRDA believed is correct.

This however does fix processing some Country IEs with multiple
sequential 2 GHz triplets. Since our parser and the spec mandates
all channels be monitonically increasing we would drop the IE after
noticing the second triplet begins on a channel already processed.
APs that send these type of country IEs seems rare though.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-14 18:16:53 -05:00
Tim Gardner
6021e08db4 b43: Declare at least one real firmware file using MODULE_FIRMWARE.
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/488636

Enhances module information with the names of the firmware files
that could be used by this driver. This helps tools like Jockey to
correctly detect and/or install the firmware files relevant to
this driver.

Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-14 18:16:53 -05:00
John W. Linville
79b6a5110a Revert "iwmc3200wifi: fix array out-of-boundary access"
This reverts commit 6c853da3f3.

From Message-ID: <1262663293.551.117.camel@debian>
On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 22:09 +0800, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> It don't think 6c853da3f3 is right.  That's the patch
> titled "iwmc3200wifi: fix array out-of-boundary access"
>
>       Allocate priv->rx_packets[IWM_RX_ID_HASH + 1] because the max array
>       index is IWM_RX_ID_HASH according to IWM_RX_ID_GET_HASH().
>
> In 2.6.33-rc2 IWM_RX_ID_GET_HASH() doesn't go as high as IWM_RX_ID_HASH
> and I don't see any array out-of-bounds.
>
> #define IWM_RX_ID_GET_HASH(id) ((id) % IWM_RX_ID_HASH)

Ah, you are right. I took '%' for '&'. John, would you revert it? Sorry
for the false alarm.

Thanks,
-yi

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-14 17:06:49 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
a5fb297d63 mwl8k: update version number (to 0.12) and copyright
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:21:24 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
ee0ddf1865 mwl8k: enable multi-BSS AP operation
As follows:
- GET_HW_SPEC is now responsible for setting
  priv->{ap,sta}_macids_supported, which are bitmasks of supported
  macids for AP and STA mode.  (Typically, STA firmware images will
  support only one macid, #0, in STA mode, and AP firmware images
  will support macids #0-7, in AP mode.)
- Our wiphy ->interfaces_modes is now set based on the non-zero-ness
  of these two bitmasks.
- We main priv->macids_used, a bitmask of which macids are currently
  in use.  ->add_interface() will assign the lowest free macid for
  this interface type as it is created, or bail out if there are no
  more free macids to assign.  ->delete_interface() will mark the
  macid as being free again.

This enables the multi-BSS code added in the previous commits.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:21:23 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
aa21d0f69a mwl8k: post per-vif firmware commands as per-vif commands
SET_BEACON, SET_MAC_ADDR, BSS_START and SET_NEW_STN are the currently
supported firmware commands that are actually per-vif commands.  Use
mwl8k_post_pervif_cmd() for these commands, so that the macid of the
vif they operate on gets passed down into the firmware.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:21:21 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
f57ca9c1af mwl8k: prepare for posting per-vif firmware commands
One of the bytes in the mwl8k firmware command header is the 'macid'
byte, which for per-vif commands indicates which of the BSSes this
command is intended for.  (For commands that are not per-vif commands,
this byte can just be 0.)

This patch adds mwl8k_post_pervif_cmd(), which will take the macid
assigned to this interface (to be done in ->add_interface()), copy it
into the command packet macid field, and post the command as usual.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:21:20 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
f5bb87cfba mwl8k: convert the priv->vif pointer to a list of vifs
To prepare for adding multi-BSS support.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:21:19 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
06953235f4 mwl8k: use firmware capability field to decide which bands to register
Make the decision about whether to register the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands
with mac80211 by looking at the capability field in GET_HW_SPEC (STA
firmware only for now).  This enables 5 GHz STA operation.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:21:18 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
42574ea227 mwl8k: allow selecting 5 GHz channels
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:21:17 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
8707d02625 mwl8k: handle 5 GHz legacy rate bitmaps in firmware commands
Whenever mac80211 gives us a legacy rate bitmap in the context of the
5 GHz band, we need to remember to shift the bitmap left by 5 positions
before giving it to the firmware, as the firmware follows the bitmap
bit assignment of the 2.4 GHz rate table even if we're on the 5 GHz
band, and the 2.4 GHz rate table includes five non-OFDM rates at the
start that are not valid in the 5 GHz band.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:21:16 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
854783444b mwl8k: properly set receive status rate index on 5 GHz receive
The mwl8k firmware uses indices into the 2.4 GHz band rate table for
the receive descriptor channel field even if the packet was received
on a 5 GHz channel, while mac80211 expects an index into the 5 GHz
band rate table when packets are received on the 5 GHz band, which
presents a mismatch as the 5 GHz band rate table lacks the five
non-OFDM rates that the 2.4 GHz rate table starts with.

To handle this properly, we need to substract 5 from the rate index
field if the packet was received on a 5 GHz channel (and was not
received at an MCS rate).

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:21:15 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
4eae9edd38 mwl8k: add 5 GHz band channels and rates
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:21:14 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
1349ad2f06 mwl8k: move responsibility for initialising wiphy bands to GET_HW_SPEC
So that we can make 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz band registration conditional
on the capability bitmask returned by the firmware.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:21:13 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
777ad375d5 mwl8k: rename 2.4 GHz band/channels/rates related variables from FOO to FOO_24
To prepare for adding 5 GHz band/channels/rates.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:21:12 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
ca66527c60 mwl8k: add another 88w8366 PCI ID
0x2a43 is a single-band (2.4GHz only) 88w8366 mini-PCIe card.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:21:11 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
657232b625 mwl8k: simplify sequence number assignment
By storing the sequence counter in << 4 format, like other drivers do.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:21:10 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
c97470dd25 mwl8k: don't call SET_AID if we're not associated
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:21:09 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
9189c10087 mwl8k: remove (mostly) write-only variable priv->current_channel
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:21:08 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
c92d4edecf mwl8k: update MODULE_FIRMWARE tags
Add MODULE_FIRMWARE tags for the mwl8k firmware images that don't
have them yet, and move them to where the firmware image names are
declared.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:21:07 -05:00
Kalle Valo
4ff6ffa107 wl1251: add U-APSD support
wl1251 firmware supports U-APSD just with a simple queue configuration
change so enable it.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:21:06 -05:00
Kalle Valo
8f8ff91652 wl1251: create qos null data template
The qos null data template is needed for U-APSD.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:21:04 -05:00
Kalle Valo
558a6669d7 ieee80211: add struct ieee80211_hdr_qos
The header can be used to create qos nullfunc frames, for example.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:21:03 -05:00
Kalle Valo
0c74211d19 mac80211: check uapsd state for dynamic power save
To make U-APSD client mode effective, we must not wake up from dynamic power
save when transmitting frames. So if dynamic power save is enabled, it needs
check the queue the transmitted packet is in and decide if we need to wake
up or not.

In a perfect world, where all packets would have correct QoS tags, U-APSD
enabled queues should not trigger wakeup from power save. But in the real
world, where very few packets have correct QoS tags, this won't work. For
example, if only voip class has U-APSD enabled and we send a packet in voip
class, but the packets we receive are in best effort class, we would receive
the packets with the legacy power save method. And that would increase
latencies too much from a voip application point of view.

The workaround is to enable U-APSD for all qeueus and still use dynamic ps
wakeup for all other queues except voip. That way we can still save power
with a voip application and not sacrifice latency. Normal traffic (in
background, best effort or video class) would still trigger wakeup from
dynamic power save.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:21:02 -05:00
Kalle Valo
5c1b98a52c mac80211: create tx handler for dynamic ps
Currently dynamic ps check is in ieee80211_xmit(), but it's cleaner
to have a separate tx handler for this. Also this is a prerequisite for
U-APSD client mode which needs to know the queue frame is in.

Also need_dynamic_ps() function is embedded to the tx handler.

No functional changes expect that the code is run in a later phase than
originally.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:21:01 -05:00
Kalle Valo
50ae0cf15c mac80211: add debugfs interface for U-APSD queue configuration
Because it's not yet decided how to configure which queues are U-APSD
enabled, add a debugfs interface for testing purposes.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:21:00 -05:00
Kalle Valo
ab13315af9 mac80211: add U-APSD client support
Add Unscheduled Automatic Power-Save Delivery (U-APSD) client support. The
idea is that the data frames from the client trigger AP to send the buffered
frames with ACs which have U-APSD enabled. This decreases latency and makes it
possible to save even more power.

Driver needs to use IEEE80211_HW_UAPSD to enable the feature. The current
implementation assumes that firmware takes care of the wakeup and
hardware needing IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK is not yet supported.

Tested with wl1251 on a Nokia N900 and Cisco Aironet 1231G AP and running
various test traffic with ping.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:20:58 -05:00
Johannes Berg
2d46d7c121 mac80211: remove unused type argument
The type argument to DEBUGFS_ADD() isn't used
and can be removed, it's around from before
the conversion to debugfs_remove_recursive().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:20:57 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
678f415fdc mac80211: flush workqueue before calling driver ->stop() method
Since commit "mwl8k: handle station database update for AP's sta entry
via ->sta_notify()", mwl8k every now and then gets a command timeout
when ifconfig'ing a STA interface down.  This turns out to be due to
mwl8k_stop() being called while the work queue item that was scheduled
by mwl8k_sta_notify() to remove the STA entry for the associated AP is
still queued, and the former disables interrupts so that when the
latter eventually runs, a command completion interrupt is never seen.

Fix this by changing ieee80211_stop_device() so that the workqueue is
flushed before drv_stop() is called, instead of doing it the other way
around as is done now.  (As ->stop() is allowed to sleep, there isn't
any reason for drivers to queue work from within it.)

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:20:56 -05:00
Joe Perches
5e124bd5e0 net/mac80211/mlme.c: Remove unnecessary semicolons
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:20:55 -05:00
H Hartley Sweeten
28f63a4bb7 iwl-debugfs.c: remove unnecessary casts of void *
void pointers do not need to be cast to other pointer types.

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Acked-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Cc: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:20:45 -05:00
Wey-Yi Guy
8ce1ef4a91 iwlwifi: fix bug in tx byte count table
When setting invalid byte count in txq byte count table, read pointer
should be used instead of write pointer.

Reported-by: Guo, Chaohong <chaohong.guo@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:02:12 -05:00
Wey-Yi Guy
c15867f15f iwlwifi: remove obsoleted host command
"RADAR_NOTIFICATION" host command is not used and not supported by uCode,
remove it from driver code.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:02:11 -05:00
Wey-Yi Guy
f0118a4575 iwlwifi: ucode statistics data structure update
Update data structure to match latest statistics report from uCode.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:02:11 -05:00
Wey-Yi Guy
f05279711b iwlwifi: add IEEE80211_AMPDU_TX_OPERATIONAL
mac80211 do not check the return code now, what if mac80211 does start
using the return code? IEEE80211_AMPDU_TX_OPERATIONAL is a valid action,
just iwlwifi driver do not need to take any action for it; so instead of
return "-EINVAL", it is a good program practice to return "-EOPNOTSUPP"
to make sure mac80211 will not get wrong impression.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:02:11 -05:00
Johannes Berg
90be561b11 mac80211: fix return from ieee80211_assoc_success
sparse pointed out that I made a mistake converting
the return value of ieee80211_assoc_success to bool,
this place should return false instead of one of the
enum values (which would be true).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:02:11 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
67e2eb2795 mwl8k: move receive processing to tasklet
Like how TX reclaim is done in a tasklet, move receive processing
to tasklet context as well.  This can have nice benefits for CPU
utilisation and throughput, especially at 3-stream rates.

(Use the same CLEAR_SEL trick as the TX reclaim tasklet does, to
avoid having to touch the interrupt mask registers.)

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:02:10 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
1e9f9de3b1 mwl8k: keep TX_DONE interrupt masked while transmit reclaim is running
By making use of the CLEAR_SEL feature of the mwl8k host interface
interrupt controller, we can keep the TX_DONE interrupt source masked
while the transmit reclaim tasklet is running (NAPI style) without
having to touch the interrupt controller's interrupt mask register
when entering or exiting polling mode, and without having to do any
more register reads/writes than we do now.

When CLEAR_SEL is enabled on the TX_DONE interrupt source, reading
the interrupt status register will clear the TX_DONE status bit if
it was set, allowing it to be set again if a new TX_DONE event arrives
while we are running the TX reclaim tasklet, but such a new event will
then not trigger another PCI interrupt until a zero is written to the
TX_DONE interrupt status register bit.

I.e., if we write a zero to the TX_DONE interrupt source bit in the
interrupt status register when the TX reclaim tasklet thinks it's
done, a PCI interrupt will be triggered if a new TX_DONE event arrived
from the hardware between us deciding that there is no more work to do
and re-enabling the TX_DONE interrupt source, thereby avoiding the
classic NAPI poll mode exit race that would otherwise occur.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:02:10 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
efb7c49a68 mwl8k: allow limiting the amount of transmit reclaim done
Add a limit argument to mwl8k_txq_reclaim(), to allow limiting the
number of packets that it will reclaim, and make it return the number
of packets that it reclaimed.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:02:10 -05:00