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Luciano Coelho 25eaea30cd Revert "wl12xx: support FW TX inactivity triggers"
This reverts commit 47684808fd.

Conflicts:

	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/conf.h
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/main.c
2011-05-02 12:46:40 +03:00
Arik Nemtsov 7dece1c8e1 wl12xx: fix race condition during recovery in AP mode
When operating as AP, the TX queues are not stopped when we start
recovery. mac80211 is notified only after the fact. When there is
pending TX, it will be queued even after the FW is down. This leads to
situations where the TX queues are stopped (because of the TX-watermark
mechanism), and are never woken up when we return from recovery.

Fix this by explicitly stopping the TX queues when before initiating
recovery.

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-05-02 10:31:28 +03:00
Arik Nemtsov c45a85b5a3 wl12xx: AP-mode - reconfigure templates after basic rates change
When there's a change in the basic rates of the AP, reconfigure relevant
templates with the new rates.

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-05-02 10:31:18 +03:00
Arik Nemtsov 70f474241b wl12xx: AP-mode - overhaul rate policy configuration
Use the minimal rate configured in the basic rates set as the AP
broadcast and multicast rate. The minimal rate is used to ensure weak
links can still communicate.

When the basic rates contains at least one OFDM rate, configure all
unicast TX rates to OFDM only.

Unify rate configuration on initialization and on change notification
into a single function.

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-05-02 10:31:13 +03:00
Arik Nemtsov 52dcaf577f wl12xx: print firmware program counter during recovery
When performing recovery, print the firmware version and program
counter (by reading the SCR_PAD4 register). The value of the firmware
program counter during assert can be useful for debugging.

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-05-02 10:31:09 +03:00
Arik Nemtsov 5f704d180e wl12xx: use wiphy values for setting rts, frag thresholds on init
Use the wiphy RTS and fragmentation thresholds for initializing the FW
when possible. This mitigates a bug where previously set values are
forgotten after interface down/up.

Add checks before settings these values to ensure they are valid. Use
default values when invalid thresholds are configured.

Update the default RTS threshold to the maximum value given by the
specification.

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-05-02 10:29:20 +03:00
Arik Nemtsov 801f870bc0 wl12xx: add BT-coexistance for AP
Initialize AP specific BT coexitance parameters to default values and
enable them in AP mode.

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-05-02 10:28:49 +03:00
Hauke Mehrtens 86c438f40c wl12xx: do not set queue_mapping directly
It is preferred to use the setter that to set queue_mapping directly.
This also helps backporting in compat-wireless.

Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-05-02 10:27:30 +03:00
Arik Nemtsov 3343789302 wl12xx: implement the tx_frames_pending mac80211 callback
Frames are considered pending when they reside in the driver TX queue or
already queued in the FW.

This notion of "pending" is appropriate for power save considerations in
STA mode, but not necessarily in other modes (for instance P2P-GO).

[Fixed a sparse warning about missing "static" in a function
declaration -- Luca]

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-05-02 10:27:21 +03:00
Ido Yariv 4cf557fcf0 wl12xx: Enable dynamic memory for 127x
The FW can dynamically manage its internal TX & RX memory pools, moving
blocks from one pool to another when necessary. This can significantly
improve performance. Currently this feature is enabled only for 128x.

Enable dynamic memory for 127x as well. Other parameters in the memory
configuration structure may need to be fine tuned, as the optimal values
for these may change once dynamic memory is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-05-02 10:27:17 +03:00
Shahar Levi 2370841bf1 wl12xx: Update Power Save Exit Retries Packets
Reducing the retries of sending PS exit packets to the peer AP.
That fix is to avoid sending unrealizable number of PS exit packets
in case of ap lost.

Signed-off-by: Shahar Levi <shahar_levi@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-05-02 10:26:58 +03:00
Shahar Levi ff86843dfb wl12xx: FM WLAN coexistence
Add support to FM WLAN coexistence (STA only).  Some WiFi harmonics
may interfere with FM operation, to avoid this problem special
coexistence techniques are activated around some FM frequencies.

Signed-off-by: Shahar Levi <shahar_levi@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-05-02 10:26:06 +03:00
Eliad Peller cb5ae0530e wl12xx: configure rates when working in ibss mode
When working in ibss mode, we don't configure rate policy per station
(as we use the same link for multiple stations), so currently the
1mb/s rate is being used.

Instead, configure the firmware to use the whole 11b rates by default.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-05-02 10:26:02 +03:00
Eliad Peller 30df14d0d3 wl12xx: avoid redundant join on interface reconfiguration
ieee80211_reconfig() sets most of the "changed" flags regardless
of the actual change (e.g. BSS_CHANGED_ASSOC will be set even if
the interface is still not associated). in this case the driver
will issue some unneeded commands.

Since the driver relies solely on the BSS_CHANGED_ASSOC flag,
without checking if there was an actual change, it will end up
issuing unjoin() and dummy_join() commands, although it was
never associated and should just remain idle.

Avoid it by checking the actual state change, in addition to the
"changed" flag.

(there seem to be more redundant configuration commands being
issued, but they shouldn't harm)

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-05-02 10:25:57 +03:00
Shahar Levi 564f59509e wl12xx: Set End-of-transaction Flag at Wl127x AP Mode
End-of-transaction flag should be set when working with
wl127x chip on AP mode.

Thanks Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com> for the guidance with that.

Signed-off-by: Shahar Levi <shahar_levi@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-05-02 10:25:17 +03:00
Arik Nemtsov 47684808fd wl12xx: support FW TX inactivity triggers
In AP mode we register for the MAX_TX_RETRY and INACTIVE_STA events.
Both are reported to the upper layers as a TX failure in the offending
stations.

In STA mode we register only for the MAX_TX_RETRY event. A TX failure is
interpreted as a loss of connection.

Support for IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS has been removed to avoid
the inherent race condition of a mac80211 TX failure counter in addition
to the FW counter.

This patch depends on "mac80211: allow low level driver to report packet
loss"

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-04-28 14:50:45 -04:00
Luciano Coelho cf27d86775 wl12xx: fix sparse warning about undeclared wl12xx_alloc_dummy_packet
Fix sparse warning:

  CHECK   drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/main.c
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/main.c:1246:17: warning: symbol 'wl12xx_alloc_dummy_packet' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-04-19 16:49:24 +03:00
Luciano Coelho afb7d3cd80 wl12xx: move hardcoded hci_io_ds value into the conf struct
Instead of hardcoding the hci_io_ds configuration that we write to the
SDIO_IO_DS top registed, read it from the default configuration so
that it's easier to change for different platforms.

Reported-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-04-19 16:49:22 +03:00
Luciano Coelho 6277ed6570 wl12xx: use kstrtoul functions
Use the new kstrtoul functions instead of the deprecated strict_strtoul().

Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-04-19 16:49:21 +03:00
Ido Yariv 341b7cde6c wl12xx: Handle platforms without level trigger interrupts
Some platforms are incapable of triggering on level interrupts. Add a
platform quirks member in the platform data structure, as well as an
edge interrupt quirk which can be set on such platforms.

When the interrupt is requested with IRQF_TRIGGER_RISING, IRQF_ONESHOT
cannot be used, as we might miss interrupts that occur after the FW
status is cleared and before the threaded interrupt handler exits.

Moreover, when IRQF_ONESHOT is not set, iterating more than once in the
threaded interrupt handler introduces a few race conditions between this
handler and the hardirq handler. Currently this is worked around by
limiting the loop to one iteration only. This workaround has an impact
on performance. To remove to this restriction, the race conditions will
need to be addressed.

Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-04-19 16:49:20 +03:00
Ido Yariv d2f4d47d84 wl12xx: Simplify TX blocks accounting
The total number of TX memory blocks may change when the dynamic memory
option is enabled. The current implementation only tracks the available
memory blocks, which over-complicates TX blocks accounting.

By tracking the number of allocated blocks, calculation of the number of
available blocks becomes simpler and cleaner. It simply equals the total
number of TX memory blocks minus the allocated ones.

Also, remove some unnecessary castings and use union member accesses
instead.

Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-04-19 16:49:20 +03:00
Ido Yariv 990f5de738 wl12xx: Clean up the dummy packet mechanism
The current implementation allocates a skb each time one is requested by
the firmware. Since dummy packets are handled differently than regular
packets, the skb needs to be marked. Currently, this is done by
setting the pkt_type member to 5. This might not be safe, as we cannot
be sure that there won't be any other packets with this pkt_type value.

Since the packet does not change from one request to another, we can
simply allocate a dummy packet template and always send it. All changes
to the skb done during packet preparation must be reverted, so the same
skb can be reused.

The dummy packets are not transmitted, therefore there's no need to set
the BSSID or our own MAC address.

In addition, the header portion of the packet was zeroed by mistake, so
fix that as well.

Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-04-19 16:49:19 +03:00
Ido Yariv 0da13da767 wl12xx: Clean up the block size alignment code
Simplify and clean up the block size alignment code:
1. Set the block size according to the padding field type, as it cannot
   exceed the maximum value this field can hold.
2. Move the alignment code into a function instead of duplicating it in
   multiple places.
3. In the current implementation, the block_size member can be
   misleading because a zero value actually means that there's no need to
   align. Declare a block size alignment quirk instead.

Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-04-19 16:49:18 +03:00
Ohad Ben-Cohen 8bf69aae4c wl12xx: fix "JOIN while associated" commentary
Issuing multiple JOIN commands to the wl12xx's firmware, while
we're associated, might have undesired implications, so the driver
prints a message when that happens, and warn developers who check
out the source.

Update the commentary in order to consider the one valid scenario
where this can happen: roaming.

Cautiously keep the message for now, until we either gain confidence
there are no unintentional JOIN-while-associated events, or until
we move to the new multi-role fw who solves this multiple-join issue
for good.

Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-04-19 16:49:16 +03:00
Ohad Ben-Cohen c5745187a4 wl12xx: fix roaming
The wl12xx device normally drops all frames coming from BSSID
it is not joined with.

This behavior is configured today by the wl12xx driver in response
to a handful of ieee80211_bss_change and ieee80211_conf_changed
notification flags, such as BSS_CHANGED_ASSOC, BSS_CHANGED_BSSID,
IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_IDLE, etc..

This breaks when we roam to a new BSSID, where authentication frames
are sent before any BSS_CHANGED/CONF_CHANGED flags are received.
When this happens the hardware silently drops the authentication
responses, and the roaming fails.

Ideally this aggressive filtering behavior of the device should be disabled
upon a notification from mac80211. Such notification will take place
after multi-channel support will be added: mac80211 will likely send a
remain-on-channel notification to drivers when entering sensitive
states (like authentication), otherwise the firmware might jump to
different channels (to serve a different role).

Until those notifications materialize, disable the hw BSSID filter
when authentication requests are sent, so roaming would work.

Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-04-19 16:49:15 +03:00
Juuso Oikarinen 13026decf7 wl12xx: Handle duplicate calling of remove interface
Because of the hardware recovery mechanism, its possible the
__wl1271_op_remove_interface is called twice. Currently, this leads to a
kernel crash even before a kernel WARNing can be issued.

Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-04-19 16:49:15 +03:00
Eliad Peller c1b193eb65 wl12xx: rearrange some ELP wake_up/sleep calls
ELP (Extremely/Enhanced Low Power, or something like that ;)) refers to
the powerstate of the 12xx chip, in which very low power is consumed,
and no commands (from the host) can be issued until the chip is woken up.

Wakeup/sleep commands must be protected by a wl->mutex, so it's generally
a good idea to call wakeup/sleep along with the mutex lock/unlock (where
needed). However, in some places the wl12xx driver calls wakeup/sleep in
some "inner" functions. This result in some "nested" wakeup/sleep calls
which might end up letting the chip go to sleep prematurely (e.g. during
event handling).

Fix it by rearranging the elp calls to come along with mutex_lock/unlock.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-04-19 16:49:14 +03:00
Arik Nemtsov 17e672d6e4 wl12xx: configure channel/band while FW is off
Initialize the channel and band from mac80211 conf even when the FW is
not yet loaded. This mitigates a bug in AP-mode where the channel was
never changed from its initial setting after FW boot and was therefore
never configured to FW.

Reported-by: Alexander Boukaty <alexanderb@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-04-19 16:49:13 +03:00
Luciano Coelho 4a31c11c7d wl12xx: use a bitmask instead of list of booleans in scanned_ch
We were using an array of booleans to mark the channels we had already
scanned.  This was causing a sparse error, because bool is not a type
with defined size.  To fix this, use bitmasks instead, which is much
cleaner anyway.

Thanks Johannes Berg for the idea.

Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-04-19 16:49:12 +03:00
Luciano Coelho 4623ec7d97 wl12xx: fix a couple of sparse warnings about undeclared functions
Fix the following sparse warnings:

drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/main.c:1129:5: warning: symbol '__wl1271_plt_stop' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/main.c:2988:5: warning: symbol 'wl1271_op_ampdu_action' was not declared. Should it be static?

Both functions should be static.

Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-04-19 16:49:11 +03:00
Luciano Coelho d9482e2b51 wl12xx: fix SG BT load value to reflect its new meaning
The Soft Gemini BT load ratio value has changed its meaning with FW
version 6.1.0.0.310.  It now means the passive scan compensation
percentage during A2DP EDR.  Instead of 50, we need to use 200.

Fix the SG configuration accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-04-19 16:49:10 +03:00
Luciano Coelho 18b92ffaf3 wl12xx: set the skbuff priority for dummy packets
The firmware requires dummy packets to be sent using TID 7
(WL1271_TID_MGMT).  Instead of hardcoding it in the tx_fill_hdr()
function, set it when creating the packet itself.

This requires Eliad's fix to set the actual TID in the TX descriptor.

Cc: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-04-19 16:49:09 +03:00
Juuso Oikarinen f9f774c17e wl12xx: Add mutex protection for interface list
The interface list maintained in main.c is not mutex protected. This could
cause issues, as the list is accessed from notifier chains.

Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-04-19 16:49:08 +03:00
Ohad Ben-Cohen 958b20e068 wl12xx: update bet_max_consecutive
Allow early termination of 50 consecutive beacons.

This value is the recommended one by the 12xx's system/RF team,
and tests show that power consumption is improved as expected.

Reported-by: Ruthy Zaphir <ruthyz@ti.com>
Tested-by: Danil Shalumov <danils@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-04-19 16:49:06 +03:00
Shahar Levi 871d0c3ba3 wl12xx: Add support for 11n Rx STBC one spatial stream
The wl12xx chip supports one Rx STBC spatial stream.  Announce this in
the HT capabilities info field.

Signed-off-by: Shahar Levi <shahar_levi@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-04-19 16:49:05 +03:00
Luciano Coelho e7ddf549f3 wl12xx: use 1 spare TX block instead of two
All the new firmware versions (>=6.1.3.50.58 for STA and >=6.2.0.0.47
for AP) use 1 spare TX block.  We still want to support older
firmwares that require 2 spare blocks, so added a quirk to handle the
difference.

Also implemented a generic way of setting quirks that depend on the
firmware revision.

Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-04-19 16:49:03 +03:00
Shahar Levi 0830ceedbf wl12xx: 1281/1283 support - enable chip support
Add support to wl128x chip via chip id

Signed-off-by: Shahar Levi <shahar_levi@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-04-19 16:49:03 +03:00
Arik Nemtsov 1aed55fd78 wl12xx: 1281/1283 support - Use different FW file for AP mode wl127x/wl128x chips
Choose a different FW for AP-mode wl127x and wl128x chips, base on chip
ID at boot time.

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-04-19 16:49:02 +03:00
Shahar Levi ae47c45fd0 wl12xx: 1281/1283 support - Add dummy packet support
Support sending dummy packet to wl128x FW as results of
dummy packet event. That is part of dynamic TX mem blocks mechanism.

Only send dummy packet when not in AP mode.

[Even though the DUMMY_PACKET_EVENT_ID and the
STA_REMOVE_COMPLETE_EVENT_ID events are defined to the same value, we
need to treat them separately in the code.  Keep the check and enable
STA_REMOVE_COMPLETE_EVENT_ID for AP mode and DUMMY_PACKET_EVENT_ID for
STA.  Moved one warning to a cleaner place.  Use WL1271_TID_MGMT for
dummy packets -- Luca]

Signed-off-by: Shahar Levi <shahar_levi@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-04-19 16:49:01 +03:00
Shahar Levi 13b107dd98 wl12xx: 1281/1283 support - use dynamic memory for the RX/TX pools
Separate the memory configuration to chip-specific structures and
implement dynamic memory for wl128x.

This feature allows us to move TX memory blocks to the RX pool when
the RX path is overloaded.

Thanks for Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com> for helping simplify the
wl1271_fw_status() code.

[Rewrote the commit subject and message for clarity; improved some
comments and changed "spare" to "padding" for consistency; added a
FIXME for the AP memory configuration -- Luca]

Signed-off-by: Shahar Levi <shahar_levi@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-04-19 16:48:59 +03:00
Shahar Levi bc765bf3b9 wl12xx: 1281/1283 support - Loading FW & NVS
Take care of FW & NVS with the auto-detection between wl127x and
wl128x.

[Moved some common code outside if statements and added notes about
NVS structure assumptions; Fixed a bug when checking the nvs size: if
the size was incorrect, the local nvs variable was set to NULL, it
should be wl->nvs instead. -- Luca]

[Merged with potential buffer overflow fix -- Luca]

Signed-off-by: Shahar Levi <shahar_levi@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-04-19 16:48:10 +03:00
Shahar Levi 49d750ca14 wl12xx: 1281/1283 support - New radio structs and functions
New general and radio parameters structures and functions.
Implemented as separate functions due to auto-detection
between wl127x and wl128x.

Signed-off-by: Shahar Levi <shahar_levi@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-04-19 16:19:48 +03:00
Shahar Levi 48a61477bd wl12xx: 1281/1283 support - Add acx commands
New acx command that sets: Rx fifo enable reduced bus transactions
in RX path. Tx bus transactions padding to SDIO block size that
improve preference in Tx and essential for working with SDIO HS (48Mhz).
The max SDIO block size is 256 when working with Tx bus transactions
padding to SDIO block.

Add new ops to SDIO & SPI that handles the win size change in case of
transactions padding (relevant only for SDIO).

[Fix endianess issues; simplify sdio-specific block_size handling;
minor changes in comments; use "aligned_len" in one calculation
instead of "pad" to avoid confusion -- Luca]

Signed-off-by: Shahar Levi <shahar_levi@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-04-19 16:19:47 +03:00
Shahar Levi 5aa42346bb wl12xx: 1281/1283 support - Add Definitions
Definitions to support wl128x:
  - New FW file name
  - Chip ID
  - New PLL Configuration Algorithm macros that will be used at wl128x
    boot stage
  - Rename NVS macro name: wl127x and wl128x are using the same NVS
    file name. However, the ini parameters between them are
    different. The driver will validate the correct NVS size in
    wl1271_boot_upload_nvs().

[Cleaned up some of the definitions. -- Luca]

Signed-off-by: Shahar Levi <shahar_levi@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-04-19 16:19:46 +03:00
Ido Yariv b16d4b6864 wl12xx: Modify requested number of memory blocks
Tests have shown that the requested number of memory blocks is
sub-optimal. Slightly modify the requested number of memory blocks for
TX.

Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-03-03 16:12:57 +02:00
Ido Yariv b07d403705 wl12xx: Avoid redundant TX work
TX might be handled in the threaded IRQ handler, in which case, TX work
might be scheduled just to discover it has nothing to do.

Save a few context switches by cancelling redundant TX work in case TX
is about to be handled in the threaded IRQ handler. Also, avoid
scheduling TX work from wl1271_op_tx if not needed.

Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-03-03 16:12:57 +02:00
Ido Yariv a620865edf wl12xx: Switch to a threaded interrupt handler
To achieve maximal throughput, it is very important to react to
interrupts as soon as possible. Currently the interrupt handler wakes up
a worker for handling interrupts in process context. A cleaner and more
efficient design would be to request a threaded interrupt handler.  This
handler's priority is very high, and can do blocking operations such as
SDIO/SPI transactions.

Some work can be deferred, mostly calls to mac80211 APIs
(ieee80211_rx_ni and ieee80211_tx_status). By deferring such work to a
different worker, we can keep the irq handler thread more I/O
responsive. In addition, on multi-core systems the two threads can be
scheduled on different cores, which will improve overall performance.

The use of WL1271_FLAG_IRQ_PENDING & WL1271_FLAG_IRQ_RUNNING was
changed. For simplicity, always query the FW for more pending
interrupts. Since there are relatively long bursts of interrupts, the
extra FW status read overhead is negligible. In addition, this enables
registering the IRQ handler with the ONESHOT option.

Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-03-03 16:10:46 +02:00
Ido Yariv 606ea9fa0b wl12xx: Do end-of-transactions transfers only if needed
On newer hardware revisions, there is no need to write the host's
counter at the end of a RX transaction. The same applies to writing the
number of packets at the end of a TX transaction.

It is generally a good idea to avoid unnecessary SDIO/SPI transfers.
Throughput and CPU usage are improved when avoiding these.

Send the host's RX counter and the TX packet count only if needed, based
on the hardware revision.

[Changed WL12XX_QUIRK_END_OF_TRANSACTION to use BIT(0) -- Luca]

Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-03-03 16:10:46 +02:00
Ido Yariv 8aad24642a wl12xx: Reorder data handling in irq_work
The FW has a limited amount of memory for holding frames. In case it
runs out of memory reserved for RX frames, it'll have no other choice
but to drop packets received from the AP. Thus, it is important to
handle RX data interrupts as soon as possible, before handling anything
else.

In addition, since there are enough TX descriptors to go around, it is
better to first send TX frames, and only then handle TX completions.

Fix this by changing the order of function calls in wl1271_irq_work.

Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
2011-03-03 16:10:46 +02:00
Johannes Berg 7bb4568372 mac80211: make tx() operation return void
The return value of the tx operation is commonly
misused by drivers, leading to errors. All drivers
will drop frames if they fail to TX the frame, and
they must also properly manage the queues (if they
didn't, mac80211 would already warn).

Removing the ability for drivers to return a BUSY
value also allows significant cleanups of the TX
TX handling code in mac80211.

Note that this also fixes a bug in ath9k_htc, the
old "return -1" there was wrong.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@googlemail.com> [ath5k]
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> [rt2x00]
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> [b43, rtl8187, rtlwifi]
Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com> [wl12xx]
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-25 15:32:34 -05:00