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225 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Johannes Berg
fd1af15d0a iwlwifi: track station IDs
mac80211 allows us to store private data per
station, so put the station ID there. This
allows us to avoid the station ID lookup when
removing regular stations. To also be able to
avoid the lookup to remove the special IBSS
BSSID station, track its ID in the per-vif
private data.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:09:04 -07:00
Johannes Berg
2c810ccdba iwlwifi: rework broadcast station management
Currently, the broadcast station is managed along
with the interface type, rather than always being
present. That leads to a bug with injection -- it
is currently not possible to inject frames when
the only virtual interface is a monitor, because
in that the required broadcast station is missing.

Additionally, allocating and deallocating the
broadcast station's LQ all the time is wasteful,
and the code to support this is fairly complex.

So this changes completely the way we manage the
broadcast station. Rather than manage it along
with any interface, we now allocate it when we
bring the device up, and remove it again when we
bring the device down. When we bring the device
up, we don't immediately program the broadcast
station into it, instead we just mark it active
and rely on the next restore cycle to upload it
to the device. This works because an unassociated
RXON is always required at least once to set up
device parameters, which implies a reprogramming
of stations into the device.

As we now manage all stations properly, there no
longer is a need for forcing a clearing of them
via iwl_clear_ucode_stations(), which can become
a lot simpler.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:09:02 -07:00
Abhijeet Kolekar
a29576a784 iwl3945: add plcp error checking
Add plcp error checking for 3945. After threshold of plcp
is reached , it resets the radio

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:08:56 -07:00
Johannes Berg
93b1a2f919 iwl3945: remove ucode access indirection
As these function pointers will always point to
the 3945 functions, we can just call them directly
and avoid the indirection.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:08:53 -07:00
Johannes Berg
1fa61b2e79 iwlwifi: manage IBSS station properly
Currently iwlwifi will eventually exhaust the station
table when adding the BSSID station for IBSS mode,
unless the interface is set down.

The new mac80211 ibss joined/left notification allows
us to fix that easily by moving the code to add the
IBSS station to the notification, and also adding
code to remove it again when we leave the IBSS.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:08:53 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
4e7033ef49 iwlwifi: remove device type checking for tx power in debugfs
Instead of checking device type for enable/disable tx power control,
move it to .cfg for better control and more flexibilities.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:08:48 -07:00
Dan Carpenter
7ada88e5e5 iwlwifi: remove stray mutex_unlock()
This mutex_unlock() has been here from the initial commit, but as nearly
as I can tell, there isn't a reason for it.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-05-10 14:56:46 -04:00
Abhijeet Kolekar
17f36fc6ef iwl3945: add ucode statistics
Add general, rx and tx uCode statistics to 3945. This will help
in debugging

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-30 15:34:31 -07:00
Johannes Berg
65b52bde68 iwlwifi: make BT coex config a virtual method
Some future hardware will require a different command to
be sent for bluetooth coexist, so make this a virtual
method that can be changed on a per-device basis.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-16 13:53:34 -07:00
Johannes Berg
b6e4c55aae iwlwifi: trigger scan synchronously
Scan requesting doesn't need to be asynchronous
since all code paths leading up to it can sleep.
Make the scan request a new util operation that
is hw-specific (to account for 3945 vs. agn)
and call it right in place.

This patch moves a lot of code into iwlagn as
it need not be in iwlcore.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-16 13:47:37 -07:00
Reinette Chatre
f875f5183b iwlwifi: fix compile warnings when compiling without debug
Fixes:
CC [M]  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rs.o
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rs.c: In function ‘rs_get_rate’:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rs.c:2419: warning: unused variable ‘priv’
CC [M]  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-sta.o
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-sta.c: In function ‘iwl_send_add_sta’:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-sta.c:197: warning: unused variable ‘sta_id’

drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c: In function ‘iwl3945_rx_reply_rx’:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c:601: warning: unused variable ‘rx_stats_noise_diff’
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c:600: warning: unused variable ‘rx_stats_sig_avg’
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945-rs.c: In function ‘rs_get_rate’:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945-rs.c:650: warning: unused variable ‘priv’

Reported-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-09 11:32:36 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
04569cbe76 iwlwifi: update tx command response status
Update to include additional tx command response status for "_agn"
devices.

The following status indicate the transmission was postponed:
  TX_STATUS_POSTPONE_DELAY
  TX_STATUS_POSTPONE_FEW_BYTES
  TX_STATUS_POSTPONE_BT_PRIO
  TX_STATUS_POSTPONE_QUIET_PERIOD
  TX_STATUS_POSTPONE_CALC_TTAK

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-09 11:30:59 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
678b385d07 iwlwifi: default max event log size
Size of event log is determined by uCode which is different per NICs.
Set the maximum event log size per device to better match uCode
configuration.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-09 11:27:21 -07:00
John W. Linville
0f2df9eac7 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 into merge
Conflicts:
	Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/phy.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c
2010-04-08 13:34:54 -04:00
Frans Pop
91dd6c27a2 iwlwifi: remove trailing space in messages
Includes minor improvements in debugging messages in iwl-4965.c,
function iwl4965_is_temp_calib_needed().

Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Cc: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: Intel Linux Wireless <ilw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-02 12:53:54 -07:00
Zhu Yi
ecdf94b812 iwlwifi: remove skb_linearize for rx frames
Remove skb_linearize() in the iwlwifi drivers since
mac80211 supports paged rx SKBs now.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-31 14:43:58 -04:00
Johannes Berg
ed1b6e99b5 iwlwifi: remove noise reporting
We go to great lengths to calculate this value
that is never used by mac80211. Additionally,
it is now deprecated by mac80211 and is causing
driver compilation to give warnings.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-25 11:20:44 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
b74e31a9bc iwlwifi: Recover TX flow stall due to stuck queue
Monitors the internal TX queues periodically.  When a queue is stuck
for some unknown conditions causing the throughput to drop and the
transfer is stop, the driver will force firmware reload and bring the
system back to normal operational state.

The iwlwifi devices behave differently in this regard so this feature is
made part of the ops infrastructure so we can have more control on how to
monitor and recover from tx queue stall case per device.

Signed-off-by: Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen <trieux.t.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-19 13:41:25 -07:00
Reinette Chatre
fe6b23dd36 iwlwifi: implement new mac80211 station add/remove calls
mac80211 recently implemented two new callbacks that are used to request
station add/remove from the driver. The benefot from these new callbacks
are that they enable the driver to sleep while performing this work.

This is a big patch since a few things need to be coordinated in this move.
First we need to decouple station management from rate scaling, which
caused a lot of code to be moved and/or deleted. Next we needed to tie in
with mac80211's station management callback and let it direct our station
management as well as trigger the rate scaling initialization.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-19 13:40:58 -07:00
Reinette Chatre
7e2461910e iwlwifi: only add broadcast station once
Currently the broadcast station is added after every RXON command. Change
this to only add the broadcast station when interface is added by mac80211.
With this we need some extra work to ensure broadcast station is always
present since station table is cleared when RXON without ASSOC bit set is
sent. To deal with this we re-add all driver known stations to uCode after
such an RXON command is sent.

We also do some cleanup and remove the various calls to clear the station
table. We now only clear the station table in two scenarios:
- only clear uCode portion of station table when RXON command without ASSOC
bit is sent
- clear uCode and driver portion when interface goes down or is removed.

We need to do this clearing when interface goes down to deal with the
device restart/reconfigure routines which do not remove the interface, but
do add the interface during reconfiguration.

Previously the keys were also cleared when station table in driver is
cleared, this is not done anymore since mac80211 will take care that keys
are set and cleared correctly.

There is a known issue with this change. Associating with different AP
without bringing interface down fails with a firmware error. This is
because of the lack of full station notification support and the later
patches in this series that complete the station notification support will
fix this.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-19 13:40:49 -07:00
Reinette Chatre
1d79e53c56 iwl3945: fix memory corruption
Recent patch "iwlwifi: move 3945 clip groups to 3945 data" exposed a memory
corruption problem. When initializing the clip groups the code was
mistakenly using the iwlagn rate count, not the 3945 rate count. This
resulted in more memory being written than was allocated.

"iwlwifi: move 3945 clip groups to 3945 data" moved the location where the
clip groups are stored and the impact is now severe in that the number of
configured TX queues is modified. Previously the
"temperature" field was overwritten, which did not seem to affect the
operation.

Fix this one instance where wrong rate count was used. I also noticed one
more location where the iwlagn rate count was used to index an iwl3945
array, fix this. I also modified one location that modified the iwlagn rate
count to obtain the iwl3945 rate count ... just use the iwl3945 rate count
directly.

This fixes http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2165 and
http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2168

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-09 16:15:33 -08:00
Johannes Berg
67d613aed7 iwlwifi: move 3945 clip groups to 3945 data
Only used on 3945, so it can be in the
3945-specific part of the data.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-09 16:05:42 -08:00
Johannes Berg
e99f168c7c iwlagn: remove write-only variables
Updating the variables last_rx_rssi, last_tsf
and last_beacon_time needs a lot of code but
they are not actually used in iwlagn (only in
3945) so we can move them to the 3945 specific
data.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-09 16:03:53 -08:00
Johannes Berg
ee525d13f5 iwlwifi: move 3945 specific data into union
To be obviously correct, this patch only modifies
3945 files and the struct definition. A follow-up
patch will create the AGN part of the union.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-09 16:03:26 -08:00
David S. Miller
19bc291c99 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h
	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800pci.c
2010-02-25 23:26:21 -08:00
Reinette Chatre
4a6547c748 iwl3945: remove STATUS macros from header
iwl3945 includes iwl-core.h in which these STATUS flags are already
defined. This also removes a potential confusing definition with iwlcore
using STATUS_MODE_PENDING with value 18 and iwl3945 defining (but not
using) STATUS_CONF_PENDING for value 18.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-19 15:52:49 -05:00
Stanislaw Gruszka
f36d04abe6 iwlwifi: use dma_alloc_coherent
Change pci_alloc_consistent() to dma_alloc_coherent() so we can use
GFP_KERNEL flag.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:27:18 -08:00
David S. Miller
10be7eb36b Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2010-02-04 08:58:14 -08:00
Reinette Chatre
3459ab5a1c iwlwifi: make broadcast station addition generic
Add function pointer for broadcast station addition so that we can call it
in from iwlcore at a later time. We only distinguish between iwlagn and
iwl3945 broadcast station addition. For the iwl3945 station addition we add
that function to iwlcore since that is where most station functionality
resides, making it part of iwl3945 will require significant code
reorganization that will dilute station management functionality. This
seems to be an efficient solution.

It may seem as though we are removing error checking when adding the 3945
broadcast station but this error checking was never really necessary since
the function returns the station id and the broadcast station id is always
set.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:22 -05:00
Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen
3e4fb5faef iwlwifi: Tune radio to prevent unexpected behavior
We have seen the throughput dropped due to external noisy environment
and the radio is out of tune.  There are lot of plcp errors indicating
this condition. Eventually the station can get de-authenticated by the
Access Point.  By resetting and tuning the radio, the plcp errors are
reduced or eliminated and the throughput starts to rise.

To prevent unexpected behavior such as drop in throughput or deauthentication,
- The change provides the driver feature to monitor and tune the radio base on
the statistics notification from the uCode.
- It also allows the setting of the plcp error rate threshold via
the plcp_delta under debugfs interface.

Signed-off-by: Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen <trieux.t.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:21 -05:00
Reinette Chatre
1f44780827 iwlwifi: update copyright year to 2010
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19 16:25:15 -05:00
Alexey Dobriyan
a3aa18842a drivers/net/: use DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE()
Use DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE() so we get place PCI ids table into correct section
in every case.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-07 23:54:26 -08:00
John W. Linville
891dc5e737 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/libertas/scan.c
2009-12-30 15:25:08 -05:00
Johannes Berg
671adc93b6 wireless: remove remaining qual code
This removes the remaining users of the rx status
'qual' field and the field itself.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28 16:19:45 -05:00
John W. Linville
ea1e4b8420 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2009-12-28 15:09:11 -05:00
Emese Revfy
45d5d80598 iwlwifi: Constify struct iwl_ops
Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-22 13:56:09 -05:00
Reinette Chatre
bc45a67079 iwl3945: disable power save
we see from http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2125
that power saving does not work well on 3945. Since then power saving has
also been connected with association problems where an AP deathenticates a
3945 after it is unable to transmit data to it - this happens when 3945
enters power savings mode.

Disable power save support until issues are resolved.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21 11:32:09 -05:00
Zhu Yi
64a76b504b iwlwifi: allocated rx page accounting cleanup
In iwlwifi, priv->alloc_rxb_page is used to keep track of the Rx
pages allocated by the driver. This cleans up the page free routines
by introducing __iwl_free_pages/iwl_free_pages so that the accounting
is more accurate and less error prone. This also fixes two instances where
the counter was not updated.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21 11:31:55 -05:00
David S. Miller
3505d1a9fd Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/sfc/sfe4001.c
	drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmd.c
	drivers/staging/Kconfig
	drivers/staging/Makefile
	drivers/staging/rtl8187se/Kconfig
	drivers/staging/rtl8192e/Kconfig
2009-11-18 22:19:03 -08:00
Zhu Yi
a3b6bd5bf2 iwlwifi: allocate 128 bytes linear buffer for rx skb
Allocate 128 bytes linear buffer for rx skb. The first 64 bytes is
reserved for mac80211 usage (for radiotap header expansion, etc).
The frame header starts from the second 64 bytes.

Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-11 15:23:41 -05:00
Wey-Yi Guy
4a56e9652e iwlwifi: add channel switch support to 5000 series and up
Support "channel switch" request by issue "channel switch" host command
to uCode.

There is no separated "channel switch" indication from mac80211,
when detected "IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_CHANNEL" flag in iwl_mac_config(),
if the station is in "associated" state, then assume "channel switch
announcement" IE was received by mac80211.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:50:02 -04:00
Zhu Yi
29b1b2688f iwlwifi: fix use after free bug for paged rx
In the paged rx patch (4854fde2), I introduced a bug that could possibly
touch an already freed page. It is fixed by avoiding the access in this
patch. I've also added some comments so that other people touching the
code won't make the same mistake. In the future, if we cannot avoid
access the page after being handled to the upper layer, we can use
get_page/put_page to handle it. For now, it's just not necessary.

It also fixed a debug message print bug reported by Stanislaw Gruszka
<sgruszka@redhat.com>.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:50:01 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
1ed2a3d29a iwlwifi: separate led function from statistic notification
Detach led background task from statistic notification routine. if led
blinking is required; the blink rate is based on the traffic condition.
It do not relate to statistics notification. In addition to that, there is
not a requirement for statistics notification has to occur all the time.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:49:59 -04:00
Ben Cahill
fadb3582a3 iwlwifi: consolidate apm_init() functions
Consolidate most iwlXXXX_apm_init() functions into single iwl_apm_init().
Keep iwl3945_apm_init(), but leverage iwl_apm_init() for most functionality.
Update 4965 init sequence to follow most recent factory recommendations.

Add following members to struct iwl_cfg to guide the init sequence:
pll_cfg_val (replaces needs_pll_cfg), set_l0s, use_bsm

Move L0S enable/disable from nic_config() functions to iwl_apm_init().
This satisifies the "FIXME: put here L1A -L0S w/a" notice, and complies
with factory-recommended sequence.

Add debug info message in iwl_apm_init(), and symmetrical message
in iwl_apm_stop().

Signed-off-by: Ben Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:49:59 -04:00
Abhijeet Kolekar
1f80989e8b iwl3945: disable all tx fifos
Disable the all the tx fifos while stopping the tx queues.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:48:30 -04:00
Zhu Yi
2f301227a1 iwlwifi: use paged Rx
This switches the iwlwifi driver to use paged skb from linear skb for Rx
buffer. So that it relieves some Rx buffer allocation pressure for the
memory subsystem. Currently iwlwifi (4K for 3945) requests 8K bytes for
Rx buffer. Due to the trailing skb_shared_info in the skb->data,
alloc_skb() will do the next order allocation, which is 16K bytes. This
is suboptimal and more likely to fail when the system is under memory
usage pressure. Switching to paged Rx skb lets us allocate the RXB
directly by alloc_pages(), so that only order 1 allocation is required.

It also adjusts the area spin_lock (with IRQ disabled) protected in the
tasklet because tasklet guarentees to run only on one CPU and the new
unprotected code can be preempted by the IRQ handler. This saves us from
spawning another workqueue to make skb_linearize/__pskb_pull_tail happy
(which cannot be called in hard irq context).

Finally, mac80211 doesn't support paged Rx yet. So we linearize the skb
for all the management frames and software decryption or defragmentation
required data frames before handed to mac80211. For all the other frames,
we __pskb_pull_tail 64 bytes in the linear area of the skb for mac80211
to handle them properly.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:48:06 -04:00
Abhijeet Kolekar
768db9829d iwl3945: rearrange the code.
Rearrange the code and groups setting of
retry_limit and data_retry_limits code together.
Make 'data_retry_limit' setting similar to iwlwifi
for better readability.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:48:01 -04:00
Abhijeet Kolekar
1f0436f470 iwlwifi/iwl3945: remove data_retry_limit
Remove the ununsed variable data_retry_limit
from priv.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:48:00 -04:00
Abhijeet Kolekar
9744c91f91 iwl3945: rename tx to tx_cmd
Rename iwl3945_tx_cmd variable tx to tx_cmd for better
readability.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:48:00 -04:00
Abhijeet Kolekar
37dc70fea8 iwlwifi/iwl3945: unify rts_tx_cmd_flag
3945 and 4965 share the functionality for setting RTS and CTS to
the tx_cmd. Unify these functions and move the common
functionality to core.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:48:00 -04:00