mac80211: explicitly notify drivers of frame release
iwlwifi needs to know the number of frames that are
going to be sent to a station while it is asleep so
it can properly handle the uCode blocking of that
station.
Before uAPSD, we got by by telling the device that
a single frame was going to be released whenever we
encountered IEEE80211_TX_CTL_POLL_RESPONSE. With
uAPSD, however, that is no longer possible since
there could be more than a single frame.
To support this model, add a new callback to notify
drivers when frames are going to be released.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
index a003582..907b420 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
@@ -1169,7 +1169,7 @@
static void ieee80211_send_null_response(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
struct sta_info *sta, int tid,
- bool uapsd)
+ enum ieee80211_frame_release_type reason)
{
struct ieee80211_local *local = sdata->local;
struct ieee80211_qos_hdr *nullfunc;
@@ -1210,7 +1210,7 @@
nullfunc->qos_ctrl = cpu_to_le16(tid);
- if (uapsd)
+ if (reason == IEEE80211_FRAME_RELEASE_UAPSD)
nullfunc->qos_ctrl |=
cpu_to_le16(IEEE80211_QOS_CTL_EOSP);
}
@@ -1227,6 +1227,8 @@
IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_EOSP |
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS;
+ drv_allow_buffered_frames(local, sta, BIT(tid), 1, reason, false);
+
ieee80211_xmit(sdata, skb);
}
@@ -1324,20 +1326,24 @@
/* This will evaluate to 1, 3, 5 or 7. */
tid = 7 - ((ffs(~ignored_acs) - 1) << 1);
- ieee80211_send_null_response(sdata, sta, tid,
- reason == IEEE80211_FRAME_RELEASE_UAPSD);
+ ieee80211_send_null_response(sdata, sta, tid, reason);
return;
}
if (!driver_release_tids) {
struct sk_buff_head pending;
struct sk_buff *skb;
+ int num = 0;
+ u16 tids = 0;
skb_queue_head_init(&pending);
while ((skb = __skb_dequeue(&frames))) {
struct ieee80211_tx_info *info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb);
struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr = (void *) skb->data;
+ u8 *qoshdr = NULL;
+
+ num++;
/*
* Tell TX path to send this frame even though the
@@ -1357,19 +1363,29 @@
hdr->frame_control |=
cpu_to_le16(IEEE80211_FCTL_MOREDATA);
+ if (ieee80211_is_data_qos(hdr->frame_control) ||
+ ieee80211_is_qos_nullfunc(hdr->frame_control))
+ qoshdr = ieee80211_get_qos_ctl(hdr);
+
+ /* set EOSP for the frame */
if (reason == IEEE80211_FRAME_RELEASE_UAPSD &&
- skb_queue_empty(&frames)) {
- /* set EOSP for the frame */
- u8 *p = ieee80211_get_qos_ctl(hdr);
- *p |= IEEE80211_QOS_CTL_EOSP;
- }
+ qoshdr && skb_queue_empty(&frames))
+ *qoshdr |= IEEE80211_QOS_CTL_EOSP;
info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_EOSP |
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS;
+ if (qoshdr)
+ tids |= BIT(*qoshdr & IEEE80211_QOS_CTL_TID_MASK);
+ else
+ tids |= BIT(0);
+
__skb_queue_tail(&pending, skb);
}
+ drv_allow_buffered_frames(local, sta, tids, num,
+ reason, more_data);
+
ieee80211_add_pending_skbs(local, &pending);
sta_info_recalc_tim(sta);