iwlwifi: mvm: support bss dynamic alloc/dealloc of queues
"DQA" is shorthand for "dynamic queue allocation". This
enables on-demand allocation of queues per RA/TID rather than
statically allocating per vif, thus allowing a potential
benefit of various factors.
Please refer to the DOC section this patch adds to sta.h to
see a more in-depth explanation of this feature.
There are many things to take into consideration when working
in DQA mode, and this patch is only one in a series. Note that
default operation mode is non-DQA mode, unless the FW
indicates that it supports DQA mode.
This patch enables support of DQA for a station connected to
an AP, and works in a non-aggregated mode.
When a frame for an unused RA/TID arrives at the driver, it
isn't TXed immediately, but deferred first until a suitable
queue is first allocated for it, and then TXed by a worker
that both allocates the queues and TXes deferred traffic.
When a STA is removed, its queues goes back into the queue
pools for reuse as needed.
Signed-off-by: Liad Kaufman <liad.kaufman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac-ctxt.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac-ctxt.c
index e885db3..c02c105 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac-ctxt.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac-ctxt.c
@@ -425,12 +425,17 @@
return 0;
}
- /* Find available queues, and allocate them to the ACs */
+ /*
+ * Find available queues, and allocate them to the ACs. When in
+ * DQA-mode they aren't really used, and this is done only so the
+ * mac80211 ieee80211_check_queues() function won't fail
+ */
for (ac = 0; ac < IEEE80211_NUM_ACS; ac++) {
u8 queue = find_first_zero_bit(&used_hw_queues,
mvm->first_agg_queue);
- if (queue >= mvm->first_agg_queue) {
+ if (!iwl_mvm_is_dqa_supported(mvm) &&
+ queue >= mvm->first_agg_queue) {
IWL_ERR(mvm, "Failed to allocate queue\n");
ret = -EIO;
goto exit_fail;
@@ -495,6 +500,10 @@
IWL_MVM_TX_FIFO_MCAST, 0, wdg_timeout);
/* fall through */
default:
+ /* If DQA is supported - queues will be enabled when needed */
+ if (iwl_mvm_is_dqa_supported(mvm))
+ break;
+
for (ac = 0; ac < IEEE80211_NUM_ACS; ac++)
iwl_mvm_enable_ac_txq(mvm, vif->hw_queue[ac],
vif->hw_queue[ac],
@@ -523,6 +532,14 @@
IWL_MAX_TID_COUNT, 0);
/* fall through */
default:
+ /*
+ * If DQA is supported - queues were already disabled, since in
+ * DQA-mode the queues are a property of the STA and not of the
+ * vif, and at this point the STA was already deleted
+ */
+ if (iwl_mvm_is_dqa_supported(mvm))
+ break;
+
for (ac = 0; ac < IEEE80211_NUM_ACS; ac++)
iwl_mvm_disable_txq(mvm, vif->hw_queue[ac],
vif->hw_queue[ac],