Writing beacon to device happen through multiple write command calls.
zd_usb_iowrite16v uses synchronous urb call and with multiple write
commands in row causes high CPU usage.
Make asynchronous zd_usb_iowrite16v_async available outside zd_usb.c
and use where possible.
This lower CPU usage from ~10% to ~2% on Intel Atom when running
AP-mode with 100 TU beacon interval.
Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Writing beacon to device happen through multiple write command calls.
zd_usb_iowrite16v uses synchronous urb call and with multiple write
commands in row causes high CPU usage.
This patch makes zd_usb_iowrite16v use asynchronous urb submit within
zd_usb.c. zd_usb_iowrite16v_async_start is used to initiate writing
multiple commands to device using zd_usb_iowrite16v_async. Each URB
is delayed and submitted to device by next zd_usb_iowrite16v_async
call or by call to zd_usb_iowrite16v_async_end. URBs submitted by
zd_usb_iowrite16v_async have URB_NO_INTERRUPT set and last URB
send by zd_usb_iowrite16v_async_end does not. This lower CPU
usage when doing writes that require multiple URBs.
Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
RX appears to freeze while idle. Resetting rx-urbs appears to be enough to fix
this. Do reset 30 seconds after last rx.
Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When doing transfers at high speed for long time, tx queue can freeze. So add
tx watchdog. TX-watchdog checks for locked tx-urbs and reset hardware when
such is detected. Merely unlinking urb was not enough, device have to be
reseted. Hw settings are restored so that any open link will stay on after
reset.
Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
As might lower beacon update CPU usage.
Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use stack for allocing small < 64 byte arrays in zd_chip.c and preallocated
buffer in zd_usb.c. This might lower CPU usage for beacon setup.
v2:
- Do not use stack buffers in zd_usb.c as they would be used for urb
transfer_buffer.
Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When stress testing AP-mode I hit OOPS when unpluging or rmmodding
driver.
It appears that when tx-queue is disabled, tx-urbs might be left pending.
These can cause ehci to call non-existing tx_urb_complete() (after rmmod)
or uninitialized/reseted private structure (after disconnect()). Add skb
queue for submitted packets and unlink pending urbs on zd_usb_disable_tx().
Part of the problem seems to be usb->free_urb_list that isn't always
working as it should, causing machine freeze when trying to free the list
in zd_usb_disable_tx(). Caching free urbs isn't what other drivers seem
to be doing (usbnet for example) so strip free_usb_list.
Patch makes tx-urb handling saner with use of urb anchors.
Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
cleanup patch.
Use new __packed annotation in drivers/net/
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This seems to be working smoothly now. Let's not hold back the mac80211
transition any further. This patch ports the existing driver from softmac
to mac80211.
Many thanks to everyone who helped out with the porting efforts.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
While playing with the firmware a while back, I discovered a way to
access the device's entire address space before the firmware has been
loaded.
Previously we were loading the firmware early on (during probe) so that
we could read the MAC address from the EEPROM and register a netdevice.
Now that we can read the EEPROM without having firmware, we can defer
firmware loading until later while still reading the MAC address early
on.
This has the advantage that zd1211rw can now be built into the kernel --
previously if this was the case, zd1211rw would be loaded before the
filesystem is available and firmware loading would fail.
Firmware load and other device initialization operations now happen the
first time the interface is brought up.
Some architectural changes were needed: handling of the is_zd1211b flag
was moved into the zd_usb structure, MAC address handling was obviously
changed, and a preinit_hw stage was added (the order is now: init,
preinit_hw, init_hw).
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Instead of passing our own custom 32-bit addresses around and
translating them, this patch makes all our register address constants
absolute and removes the translation.
There are two ugly parts:
- fw_reg_addr() is needed to compute addresses of firmware registers, as this
is dynamic based upon firmware
- inc_addr() needs a small hack to handle byte vs word addressing
However, both of those are only small, and we don't use fw_regs a whole
lot anyway.
The bonuses here include simplicity and improved driver readability. Also, the
fact that registers are now referenced by 16-bit absolute addresses (as
opposed to 32-bit pseudo addresses) means that over 2kb compiled code size has
been shaved off.
Includes some touchups and sparse fixes from Ulrich Kunitz.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This reverts commit 4e1bbd846d.
Quoth Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>:
"A user reported that commit 4e1bbd846d
(Remove unneeded packed attributes) breaks the zd1211rw driver on ARM."
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
For housekeeping and watchdog tasks a workqueue is created. The
central workqueue is not used to prevent crashes creates by bugs.
It might be changed, when the housekeeping is stabilized.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Inspired by an e-mail by Stephen Hemminger I decided to remove all
unneeded packed attributes from the code where the member variables are
already aligned. This avoids horrible code being generated on some
architectures.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some devices identify themselves as a virtual USB CDROM drive. The virtual CD
includes the windows driver. We aren't interested in this, so we eject the
virtual CDROM and then the real wireless device appears.
Patch fixed over the earlier version to not leak cmd, thanks to Michael Buesch
for spotting that.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There are 60+ USB wifi adapters available on the market based on the ZyDAS
ZD1211 chip.
Unlike the predecessor (ZD1201), ZD1211 does not have a hardware MAC, so most
data operations are coordinated by the device driver. The ZD1211 chip sits
alongside an RF transceiver which is also controlled by the driver. Our driver
currently supports 2 RF types, we know of one other available in a few marketed
products which we will be supporting soon.
Our driver also supports the newer revision of ZD1211, called ZD1211B. The
initialization and RF operations are slightly different for the new revision,
but the main difference is 802.11e support. Our driver does not support the
QoS features yet, but we think we know how to use them.
This driver is based on ZyDAS's own GPL driver available from www.zydas.com.tw.
ZyDAS engineers have been responsive and supportive of our efforts, so thumbs
up to them. Additionally, the firmware is redistributable and they have
provided device specs.
This driver has been written primarily by Ulrich Kunitz and myself. Graham
Gower, Greg KH, Remco and Bryan Rittmeyer have also contributed. The
developers of ieee80211 and softmac have made our lives so much easier- thanks!
We maintain a small info-page: http://zd1211.ath.cx/wiki/DriverRewrite
If there is enough time for review, we would like to aim for inclusion in
2.6.18. The driver works nicely as a STA, and can connect to both open and
encrypted networks (we are using software-based encryption for now). We will
work towards supporting more advanced features in the future (ad-hoc, master
mode, 802.11a, ...).
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Jussi Kivilinna