Currently there is no way for the driver to signal to mac80211 that it should
schedule a TXQ even if there are no packets on the mac80211 part of that queue.
This is problematic if the driver has an internal retry queue to deal with
software A-MPDU retry.
This patch changes the behavior of ieee80211_schedule_txq to always schedule
the queue, as its only user (ath9k) seems to expect such behavior already:
it calls this function on tx status and on powersave wakeup whenever its
internal retry queue is not empty.
Also add an extra argument to ieee80211_return_txq to get the same behavior.
This fixes an issue on ath9k where tx queues with packets to retry (and no
new packets in mac80211) would not get serviced.
Fixes: 89cea7493a346 ("ath9k: Switch to mac80211 TXQ scheduling and airtime APIs")
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_rx.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c | 4 ++--
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c | 5 ++++-
include/net/mac80211.h | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++----
net/mac80211/tx.c | 10 ++++++----
5 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_rx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_rx.c
index 4fc885617de1..895a94b2a63e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_rx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_rx.c
@@ -2720,7 +2720,7 @@ static void ath10k_htt_rx_tx_fetch_ind(struct ath10k *ar, struct sk_buff *skb)
num_msdus++;
num_bytes += ret;
}
- ieee80211_return_txq(hw, txq);
+ ieee80211_return_txq(hw, txq, false);
ieee80211_txq_schedule_end(hw, txq->ac);
record->num_msdus = cpu_to_le16(num_msdus);
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
index b73c23d4ce86..41e89db244d2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
@@ -4089,7 +4089,7 @@ static int ath10k_mac_schedule_txq(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u32 ac)
if (ret < 0)
break;
}
- ieee80211_return_txq(hw, txq);
+ ieee80211_return_txq(hw, txq, false);
ath10k_htt_tx_txq_update(hw, txq);
if (ret == -EBUSY)
break;
@@ -4374,7 +4374,7 @@ static void ath10k_mac_op_wake_tx_queue(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
if (ret < 0)
break;
}
- ieee80211_return_txq(hw, txq);
+ ieee80211_return_txq(hw, txq, false);
ath10k_htt_tx_txq_update(hw, txq);
out:
ieee80211_txq_schedule_end(hw, ac);
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
index 06e0c5a6fab6..245a63932840 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
@@ -1938,12 +1938,15 @@ void ath_txq_schedule(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_txq *txq)
goto out;
while ((queue = ieee80211_next_txq(hw, txq->mac80211_qnum))) {
+ bool force;
+
tid = (struct ath_atx_tid *)queue->drv_priv;
ret = ath_tx_sched_aggr(sc, txq, tid);
ath_dbg(common, QUEUE, "ath_tx_sched_aggr returned %d\n", ret);
- ieee80211_return_txq(hw, queue);
+ force = !skb_queue_empty(&tid->retry_q);
+ ieee80211_return_txq(hw, queue, force);
}
out:
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 0de0aba580eb..5b5d28eead38 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -6291,26 +6291,42 @@ static inline void ieee80211_txq_schedule_end(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u8 ac)
{
}
+void __ieee80211_schedule_txq(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
+ struct ieee80211_txq *txq, bool force);
+
/**
* ieee80211_schedule_txq - schedule a TXQ for transmission
*
* @hw: pointer as obtained from ieee80211_alloc_hw()
* @txq: pointer obtained from station or virtual interface
*
- * Schedules a TXQ for transmission if it is not already scheduled.
+ * Schedules a TXQ for transmission if it is not already scheduled,
+ * even if mac80211 does not have any packets buffered.
+ *
+ * The driver may call this function if it has buffered packets for
+ * this TXQ internally.
*/
-void ieee80211_schedule_txq(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_txq *txq);
+static inline void
+ieee80211_schedule_txq(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_txq *txq)
+{
+ __ieee80211_schedule_txq(hw, txq, true);
+}
/**
* ieee80211_return_txq - return a TXQ previously acquired by ieee80211_next_txq()
*
* @hw: pointer as obtained from ieee80211_alloc_hw()
* @txq: pointer obtained from station or virtual interface
+ * @force: schedule txq even if mac80211 does not have any buffered packets.
+ *
+ * The driver may set force=true if it has buffered packets for this TXQ
+ * internally.
*/
static inline void
-ieee80211_return_txq(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_txq *txq)
+ieee80211_return_txq(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_txq *txq,
+ bool force)
{
- ieee80211_schedule_txq(hw, txq);
+ __ieee80211_schedule_txq(hw, txq, force);
}
/**
diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index 9fe8682d79ec..e22de40a7790 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -3692,8 +3692,9 @@ struct ieee80211_txq *ieee80211_next_txq(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u8 ac)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(ieee80211_next_txq);
-void ieee80211_schedule_txq(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
- struct ieee80211_txq *txq)
+void __ieee80211_schedule_txq(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
+ struct ieee80211_txq *txq,
+ bool force)
{
struct ieee80211_local *local = hw_to_local(hw);
struct txq_info *txqi = to_txq_info(txq);
@@ -3701,7 +3702,8 @@ void ieee80211_schedule_txq(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
spin_lock_bh(&local->active_txq_lock[txq->ac]);
if (list_empty(&txqi->schedule_order) &&
- (!skb_queue_empty(&txqi->frags) || txqi->tin.backlog_packets)) {
+ (force || !skb_queue_empty(&txqi->frags) ||
+ txqi->tin.backlog_packets)) {
/* If airtime accounting is active, always enqueue STAs at the
* head of the list to ensure that they only get moved to the
* back by the airtime DRR scheduler once they have a negative
@@ -3721,7 +3723,7 @@ void ieee80211_schedule_txq(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
spin_unlock_bh(&local->active_txq_lock[txq->ac]);
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(ieee80211_schedule_txq);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__ieee80211_schedule_txq);
bool ieee80211_txq_may_transmit(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
struct ieee80211_txq *txq)
--
2.17.0
Felix Fietkau <[email protected]> writes:
> Currently there is no way for the driver to signal to mac80211 that it should
> schedule a TXQ even if there are no packets on the mac80211 part of that queue.
> This is problematic if the driver has an internal retry queue to deal with
> software A-MPDU retry.
>
> This patch changes the behavior of ieee80211_schedule_txq to always schedule
> the queue, as its only user (ath9k) seems to expect such behavior already:
> it calls this function on tx status and on powersave wakeup whenever its
> internal retry queue is not empty.
>
> Also add an extra argument to ieee80211_return_txq to get the same behavior.
>
> This fixes an issue on ath9k where tx queues with packets to retry (and no
> new packets in mac80211) would not get serviced.
>
> Fixes: 89cea7493a346 ("ath9k: Switch to mac80211 TXQ scheduling and airtime APIs")
> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <[email protected]>