Return-path: Received: from dakia2.marvell.com ([65.219.4.35]:52578 "EHLO dakia2.marvell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752815Ab1DULbM (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Apr 2011 07:31:12 -0400 From: Nishant Sarmukadam To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Cc: buytenh@wantstofly.org, pnemavat@marvell.com, Nishant Sarmukadam Subject: [PATCH V3 1/4] mwl8k: Do not stop tx queues Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:34:56 +0530 Message-Id: <1303383899-3262-1-git-send-email-nishants@marvell.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Pradeep Nemavat This is in preparation to support life time expiry of packets in the hardware to avoid head-of-line blocking where a slow client can hog a tx queue and affect the traffic to a faster client from the same queue. Time stamp the packets in driver to allow dropping them in the hardware if they are queued for more than 500ms. If queues are stopped, packets will be queued up outside the driver. Since we will be able to timestamp the packets only after they hit the driver, the timestamp will be less accurate since we cannot consider the time the packets spent in queues outside the driver. With this commit, to achieve accurate timestamping, the tx queues will not be stopped in normal conditions. The only scenarios where the queues will be stopped are when firmware commands are executing or if the interface is brought down. Now, we need to be prepared for a situation where packets hit the driver even after the tx queues are full. Drop all such packets in the driver itself. Signed-off-by: Pradeep Nemavat Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam --- drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c | 20 +++++++------------- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c index ebaae35..7968301 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c @@ -1666,10 +1666,6 @@ mwl8k_txq_reclaim(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, int index, int limit, int force) processed++; } - if (index < MWL8K_TX_WMM_QUEUES && processed && priv->radio_on && - !mutex_is_locked(&priv->fw_mutex)) - ieee80211_wake_queue(hw, index); - return processed; } @@ -1951,13 +1947,14 @@ mwl8k_txq_xmit(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, int index, struct sk_buff *skb) txq = priv->txq + index; - if (index >= MWL8K_TX_WMM_QUEUES && txq->len >= MWL8K_TX_DESCS) { - /* This is the case in which the tx packet is destined for an - * AMPDU queue and that AMPDU queue is full. Because we don't - * start and stop the AMPDU queues, we must drop these packets. - */ - dev_kfree_skb(skb); + if (txq->len >= MWL8K_TX_DESCS) { + if (start_ba_session) { + spin_lock(&priv->stream_lock); + mwl8k_remove_stream(hw, stream); + spin_unlock(&priv->stream_lock); + } spin_unlock_bh(&priv->tx_lock); + dev_kfree_skb(skb); return; } @@ -1985,9 +1982,6 @@ mwl8k_txq_xmit(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, int index, struct sk_buff *skb) if (txq->tail == MWL8K_TX_DESCS) txq->tail = 0; - if (txq->head == txq->tail && index < MWL8K_TX_WMM_QUEUES) - ieee80211_stop_queue(hw, index); - mwl8k_tx_start(priv); spin_unlock_bh(&priv->tx_lock); -- 1.6.0.3