TX queues shouldn't be kicked after each frame that is put into the
queue. This could cause problems during RTS and CTS-to-self as well
as with fragmentation. In all those cases you want all frames to be
send out in a single burst. Off course we shouldn't let the queue fill
up entirely, thus we introduce a 10% threshold which, when reached,
will force the frames to be send out regardless of the frame.
In addition we should prevent queues to become full in such a way
that the tx() handler can fail. Instead of stopping the queue when
it is full, we should stop it when it is below the threshold.
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The write_tx_data functions in rt2x00pci and rt2x00usb have
a lot in common. This moves that duplicate code into
rt2x00queue_write_tx_frame().
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
qid should be initialized to QID_BEACON and QID_ATIM
for the beacon and atim quue. This makes checking for
a particular queue much saner, and it shouldn't harm,
because the only places where the value is send to
the hardware, we are allowed to send any value we
want since it is only used as argument in the
TX done register.
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch converts mac80211 and all drivers to have transmit
information and status in skb->cb rather than allocating extra
memory for it and copying all the data around. To make it fit,
a union is used where only data that is necessary for all steps
is kept outside of the union.
A number of fixes were done by Ivo, as well as the rt2x00 part
of this patch.
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch modifies struct ieee80211_tx_control to give band
info and the rate index (instead of rate pointers) to drivers.
This mostly serves to reduce the TX control structure size to
make it fit into skb->cb so that the fragmentation code can
put it there and we can think about passing it to drivers that
way in the future.
The rt2x00 driver update was done by Ivo, thanks.
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Split rt2x00lib_write_tx_desc() up into a TX descriptor initializor
and TX descriptor writer.
This split is required to properly allow mac80211 to move its
tx_control structure into the skb->cb array.
The rt2x00queue_create_tx_descriptor() function will read all tx control
information and convert it into a rt2x00 TX descriptor information structure.
After that function is complete, we have all information we needed from the
tx control structure and are free to start writing into the skb->cb array
for our own purposes.
rt2x00queue_write_tx_descriptor() will be in charge of really sending
the TX descriptor to the hardware and kicking the TX queue.
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
With the integration of the mac80211 multiqueue patches it has become possible that the
mac80211 layer modifies the number of TX queues that is stored inside the ieee80211_hw
structure, especially when multi-queue is not selected.
The rt2x00 drivers are not well suited to handle that situation, as they allocate the
queue structures before mac80211 has modified the number of queues it is going to use,
and also expect the number of allocated queues to match the hardware implementation.
Hence, ensure that rt2x00 maintains by itself the number of queues that the hardware
supports, and, at the same time, making is not dependent on the preservation of contents
inside a mac80211 structure.
Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@kpnplanet.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use the rt2x00 queue enumeration as much as possible,
removing the usage of the mac80211 queue numbering
wherever it is possible.
This makes it easier for mac80211 to change it queue
identification scheme without having to deal with
big changes in the rt2x00 code.
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The queue->lock could be grabbed from interrupt context,
which could lead to lockdep panic like this:
kernel: ======================================================
kernel: [ INFO: soft-safe -> soft-unsafe lock order detected ]
kernel: 2.6.25-0.95.rc4.fc9 #1
kernel: ------------------------------------------------------
kernel: rt2500pci/1251 [HC0[0]:SC0[1]:HE1:SE0] is trying to acquire:
kernel: (&queue->lock){--..}, at: [<ffffffff88213339>] rt2x00queue_get_entry+0x5a/0x81 [rt2x00lib]
kernel:
kernel: and this task is already holding:
kernel: (_xmit_IEEE80211){-...}, at: [<ffffffff8122e9a3>] __qdisc_run+0x84/0x1a9
kernel: which would create a new lock dependency:
kernel: (_xmit_IEEE80211){-...} -> (&queue->lock){--..}
kernel:
kernel: but this new dependency connects a soft-irq-safe lock:
kernel: (_xmit_ETHER){-+..}
kernel: ... which became soft-irq-safe at:
kernel: [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
kernel:
kernel: to a soft-irq-unsafe lock:
kernel: (&queue->lock){--..}
kernel: ... which became soft-irq-unsafe at:
kernel: ... [<ffffffff810545a2>] __lock_acquire+0x62d/0xd63
kernel: [<ffffffff81054d36>] lock_acquire+0x5e/0x78
kernel: [<ffffffff812a1497>] _spin_lock+0x26/0x53
kernel: [<ffffffff88212f98>] rt2x00queue_reset+0x16/0x40 [rt2x00lib]
kernel: [<ffffffff88212fd4>] rt2x00queue_alloc_entries+0x12/0xab [rt2x00lib]
kernel: [<ffffffff88213091>] rt2x00queue_initialize+0x24/0xf2 [rt2x00lib]
kernel: [<ffffffff88212036>] rt2x00lib_start+0x3b/0xd4 [rt2x00lib]
kernel: [<ffffffff88212609>] rt2x00mac_start+0x18/0x1a [rt2x00lib]
kernel: [<ffffffff881b9a4b>] ieee80211_open+0x1f3/0x46d [mac80211]
kernel: [<ffffffff8121d980>] dev_open+0x4d/0x8b
kernel: [<ffffffff8121d41e>] dev_change_flags+0xaf/0x172
kernel: [<ffffffff81224fc2>] do_setlink+0x276/0x338
kernel: [<ffffffff81225198>] rtnl_setlink+0x114/0x116
kernel: [<ffffffff812262fc>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x1d8/0x1f9
kernel: [<ffffffff8123649a>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x3e/0xac
kernel: [<ffffffff8122611a>] rtnetlink_rcv+0x29/0x33
kernel: [<ffffffff81235eed>] netlink_unicast+0x1fe/0x26b
kernel: [<ffffffff81236224>] netlink_sendmsg+0x2ca/0x2dd
kernel: [<ffffffff812103b3>] sock_sendmsg+0xfd/0x120
kernel: [<ffffffff812105a8>] sys_sendmsg+0x1d2/0x23c
kernel: [<ffffffff8100c1c7>] tracesys+0xdc/0xe1
kernel: [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
This can be fixed by using the irqsave/irqrestore versions
during the queue->lock handling.
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
As Adam Baker reported the queue->qid was not initialized
correctly. The QID_AC_BE was assigned to the RX ring.
This will move the queue initialization into a seperate function
and makes sure that all queues are initialized directly with the
correct qids.
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When calculating the offset to add to the queue entry base to get the
individual entry's private data area the base address must be treated
as a char * not a struct queue_entry so we can do byte oriented
pointer arithmetic with it.
Signed-off-by: Adam Baker <linux@baker-net.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When Q_INDEX is increased, the queue->length should be increased,
only when Q_INDEX_DONE is increased should queue_length be descreased.
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
As Johannes Berg indicated the BEACON and AFTER_BEACON
queue indeces in mac80211 should be removed because they
are too hardware specific. This patch adds the queue index
defines into rt2x00queue.h and removes the dependency of
the defines inside mac80211.h.
Also move rt2x00pci_beacon_update() into rt2400pci and
rt2500pci individually since it is no longer a generic
function since rt61 and rt2800 no longer use that.
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This introduces a big queue handling overhaul, this also
renames "ring" to "queues".
Move queue handling into rt2x00queue.c and the matching header,
use Kerneldoc to improve rt2x00 library documentation.
Access to the queues is now protected under a spinlock, this
to prevent race conditions which could corrupt the indexing
system of the queue.
Each queue entry allocates x bytes for driver/device specific data,
this cleans up the queue structure significantly and improves
code readability.
rt2500usb no longer needs 2 entries in the beacon queue to correctly
send out the guardian byte. This is now handled in the entry specific
structure.
rt61 and rt73 now use the correct descriptor size for beacon frames,
since this data is written into the registers not the entire TXD
descriptor was used but instead of a subset of it named TXINFO.
Finally this also fixes numerous other bugs related to incorrect
beacon handling or beacon related code.
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Ivo van Doorn