Currently AMPDU aggregation is preferred over AMSDU. AMSDU
aggregation is performed only if AMPDU streams in firmware
are full.
This patch adds simultaneous AMSDU and AMPDU aggregation
support. This mechanism helps to improve throughput.
AMSDU is enabled only for 8897 chipsets which supports 4K
transmit buffer. User can disable AMSDU using
'disable_tx_amsdu' module parameter.
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The bridged packets are updated to statistics on both TX and RX
paths. Also fix a typo in the comment.
Signed-off-by: Ujjal Roy <royujjal@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
RX packets are handled in different paths. Not all paths have
decrement of rx_pending counter. This patch fixes the counter
imbalance.
Signed-off-by: Ujjal Roy <royujjal@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
SNAP/LLC header in the AARP packet is being stripped off while
preparing an EthernetII header.
Annex M, Table M.3 in 802.11 spec says that some header
(ex. AppleTalk AARP(2)) should pass through untouched.
This patch modifies the check to exclude/include EthernetII
header translation for special cases.
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use 'rfc1042_header' available in net/wireless/util.c
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The eth_hdr is never defined in this driver but it gets compiled
without any warning/error because kernel has defined eth_hdr.
Fix it by defining our own p_ethhdr and use it instead of eth_hdr.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.7+
Signed-off-by: Ujjal Roy <royujjal@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Delete packets from TX queues for this mwifiex_private structure
when bridged packet count reaches maximum threshold. Bridged packets
from each RA List are deleted till they fall to low threshold of 128.
Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Under uAP mode mwifiex may stop all net tx queues on forwarding
packets. This may stop some tx queues and they never have chance
to be waked up. There is also no need to check tx_pending and
stop queues here. Because local host has such kind of check when
transmitting packets and it's not proper to have forwarding affect
local transmitting.
Signed-off-by: Huawei Yang <harvey.huawei.yang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We derive mwifiex_private structure which is per interface from
received skb's rx_info. Once priv is derived, same priv can be
propagated to other functions instead of callee deriving priv
from rx_info again.
Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Set packet type and packet offset in txpd when send a mgmt frame
in AP and GO mode.
Signed-off-by: Stone Piao <piaoyun@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Gan <ganhy@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Process the management frames received from firmware and report
them to cfg80211.
Signed-off-by: Stone Piao <piaoyun@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kiran Divekar <dkiran@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Gan <ganhy@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds separate tx packet descriptor routine for AP
interface. This function fills bss_type, bss_num, wmm packet
delay information etc for TxPD going on AP interface.
Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds support for reception and decoding of AMSDU
aggregation frames for AP interface.
Patch also adds support for handling AMSDU aggregation event.
Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kiran Divekar <dkiran@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
1. Separate file for uAP RX handling.
2. If received packet is broadcast/multicast, send it to kernel
as well as requeue it back to uAP TX queue.
3. If received packet is for associated STA (intra-BSS), requeue
it back to uAP TX queue.
4. In all other cases (packets for AP or inter-BSS packets),
pass packet to kernel to handle it accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kiran Divekar <dkiran@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Amitkumar Karwar