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Johannes Berg
96f5e66e8a mac80211: fix aggregation for hardware with ampdu queues
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: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27 14:51:42 -05:00
Johannes Berg
ccd7b36286 mac80211: clean up some comments
Some comments refer to 80211.o or similar; also remove
a comment about implementing fragments better, we really
have better things to do.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:22 -04:00
Harvey Harrison
c44d040e18 mac80211: wme.h remove unused QOS_CONTROL_LEN
linux/ieee80211.h now has IEEE80211_QOS_CTL_LEN for this purpose.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-22 16:29:53 -04:00
David S. Miller
51cb6db0f5 mac80211: Reimplement WME using ->select_queue().
The only behavior change is that we do not drop packets under any
circumstances.  If that is absolutely needed, we could easily add it
back.

With cleanups and help from Johannes Berg.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-17 19:21:12 -07:00
Harvey Harrison
238f74a227 mac80211: move QOS control helpers into ieee80211.h
Also remove the WLAN_IS_QOS_DATA inline after removing the last
two users.  This starts moving away from using rx->fc to using
the header frame_control directly.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-08 14:15:59 -04:00
Johannes Berg
e253008360 mac80211: use multi-queue master netdevice
This patch updates mac80211 and drivers to be multi-queue aware and
use that instead of the internal queue mapping. Also does a number
of cleanups in various pieces of the code that fall out and reduces
internal mac80211 state size.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:14 -04:00
Ron Rindjunsky
9e72349237 mac80211: A-MPDU Tx adding qdisc support
This patch allows qdisc support in A-MPDU Tx. a method to
handle QoS <-> TID switches is present in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29 15:19:17 -05:00
Johannes Berg
6e0d114d52 [MAC80211]: move QoS rx handlers into rx.c
This patch moves the QoS handlers into rx.c making it possible
to compile wme.c only when NET_SCHED is defined.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10 16:47:30 -07:00
Jiri Benc
f0706e828e [MAC80211]: Add mac80211 wireless stack.
Add mac80211, the IEEE 802.11 software MAC layer.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-05-05 11:45:53 -07:00