mwifiex: improve scan delay logic during Tx traffic
Earlier scan command was postponed by 20msec multiple times to give
preference to Tx traffic until we find empty wmm queue.
There is a corner case in which wmm queue becomes empty immediately
after processing the packet(before 20msec) and there may be next
packet coming after some time. In this case we should not resume scan
operation.
We will use new flag to check Tx traffic and resume scan operation
only if there is no traffic for 200msec.
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>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/init.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/init.c
index 21fdc6c..81fc8ed 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/init.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/init.c
@@ -64,60 +64,72 @@
struct cmd_ctrl_node *cmd_node, *tmp_node;
unsigned long flags;
- if (!mwifiex_wmm_lists_empty(adapter)) {
- if (adapter->scan_delay_cnt == MWIFIEX_MAX_SCAN_DELAY_CNT) {
+ if (adapter->scan_delay_cnt == MWIFIEX_MAX_SCAN_DELAY_CNT) {
+ /*
+ * Abort scan operation by cancelling all pending scan
+ * commands
+ */
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->scan_pending_q_lock, flags);
+ list_for_each_entry_safe(cmd_node, tmp_node,
+ &adapter->scan_pending_q, list) {
+ list_del(&cmd_node->list);
+ cmd_node->wait_q_enabled = false;
+ mwifiex_insert_cmd_to_free_q(adapter, cmd_node);
+ }
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&adapter->scan_pending_q_lock, flags);
+
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->mwifiex_cmd_lock, flags);
+ adapter->scan_processing = false;
+ adapter->scan_delay_cnt = 0;
+ adapter->empty_tx_q_cnt = 0;
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&adapter->mwifiex_cmd_lock, flags);
+
+ if (priv->user_scan_cfg) {
+ dev_dbg(priv->adapter->dev,
+ "info: %s: scan aborted\n", __func__);
+ cfg80211_scan_done(priv->scan_request, 1);
+ priv->scan_request = NULL;
+ kfree(priv->user_scan_cfg);
+ priv->user_scan_cfg = NULL;
+ }
+ goto done;
+ }
+
+ if (!atomic_read(&priv->adapter->is_tx_received)) {
+ adapter->empty_tx_q_cnt++;
+ if (adapter->empty_tx_q_cnt == MWIFIEX_MAX_EMPTY_TX_Q_CNT) {
/*
- * Abort scan operation by cancelling all pending scan
- * command
+ * No Tx traffic for 200msec. Get scan command from
+ * scan pending queue and put to cmd pending queue to
+ * resume scan operation
*/
+ adapter->scan_delay_cnt = 0;
+ adapter->empty_tx_q_cnt = 0;
spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->scan_pending_q_lock, flags);
- list_for_each_entry_safe(cmd_node, tmp_node,
- &adapter->scan_pending_q,
- list) {
- list_del(&cmd_node->list);
- cmd_node->wait_q_enabled = false;
- mwifiex_insert_cmd_to_free_q(adapter, cmd_node);
- }
+ cmd_node = list_first_entry(&adapter->scan_pending_q,
+ struct cmd_ctrl_node, list);
+ list_del(&cmd_node->list);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&adapter->scan_pending_q_lock,
flags);
- spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->mwifiex_cmd_lock, flags);
- adapter->scan_processing = false;
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&adapter->mwifiex_cmd_lock,
- flags);
-
- if (priv->user_scan_cfg) {
- dev_dbg(priv->adapter->dev,
- "info: %s: scan aborted\n", __func__);
- cfg80211_scan_done(priv->scan_request, 1);
- priv->scan_request = NULL;
- kfree(priv->user_scan_cfg);
- priv->user_scan_cfg = NULL;
- }
- } else {
- /*
- * Tx data queue is still not empty, delay scan
- * operation further by 20msec.
- */
- mod_timer(&priv->scan_delay_timer, jiffies +
- msecs_to_jiffies(MWIFIEX_SCAN_DELAY_MSEC));
- adapter->scan_delay_cnt++;
+ mwifiex_insert_cmd_to_pending_q(adapter, cmd_node,
+ true);
+ goto done;
}
- queue_work(priv->adapter->workqueue, &priv->adapter->main_work);
} else {
- /*
- * Tx data queue is empty. Get scan command from scan_pending_q
- * and put to cmd_pending_q to resume scan operation
- */
- adapter->scan_delay_cnt = 0;
- spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->scan_pending_q_lock, flags);
- cmd_node = list_first_entry(&adapter->scan_pending_q,
- struct cmd_ctrl_node, list);
- list_del(&cmd_node->list);
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&adapter->scan_pending_q_lock, flags);
-
- mwifiex_insert_cmd_to_pending_q(adapter, cmd_node, true);
+ adapter->empty_tx_q_cnt = 0;
}
+
+ /* Delay scan operation further by 20msec */
+ mod_timer(&priv->scan_delay_timer, jiffies +
+ msecs_to_jiffies(MWIFIEX_SCAN_DELAY_MSEC));
+ adapter->scan_delay_cnt++;
+
+done:
+ if (atomic_read(&priv->adapter->is_tx_received))
+ atomic_set(&priv->adapter->is_tx_received, false);
+
+ return;
}
/*
@@ -345,6 +357,7 @@
memset(&adapter->arp_filter, 0, sizeof(adapter->arp_filter));
adapter->arp_filter_size = 0;
adapter->max_mgmt_ie_index = MAX_MGMT_IE_INDEX;
+ adapter->empty_tx_q_cnt = 0;
}
/*