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4 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Hante Meuleman
464a5f3f04 brcmfmac: Improve throughput by scheduling msbug flow worker.
The tx flow worker in msgbuf gets scheduled at tx till a certain
threshold has been reached. Then the tx completes will take over
the scheduling. When amsdu and ampdu is used the frames are
transferred wireless in a very bulky fashion, in combination
with this scheduling algorithm and buffer limiters in the stack
this can result in limited throughput. This change causes the
flow worker to be scheduled more frequently from tx.

Reviewed-by: Arend Van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel (Deognyoun) Kim <dekim@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
2015-05-26 14:09:54 +03:00
Hante Meuleman
70b7d94bcc brcmfmac: Add TDLS support to msgbuf.
TDLS connections require dedicated flowrings. This patches adds
TDLS event handling and flowring creation/deletion based on these
events.

Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel (Deognyoun) Kim <dekim@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2014-07-31 13:45:29 -04:00
Hante Meuleman
17ca5c7184 brcmfmac: Fix msgbuf flow control.
Msgbuf flow control was using a function to flow off and on which
was not supported without proptx enabled. Also flow control needs
to be handled per ifidx.

Reviewed-by: Arend Van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel (Deognyoun) Kim <dekim@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2014-07-31 13:45:28 -04:00
Hante Meuleman
9a1bb60250 brcmfmac: Adding msgbuf protocol.
This patch will add the msgbuf protocol. This protocol is used by
the soon to be added new bus interface PCIe. Msgbuf is a protocol
where most data is and remains located on the host (driver) side
and transferred by DMA from and to device. Msgbuf is the protocol
which takes care of the signalling of the buffers between host and
device which identifies this DMA-able data.

Reviewed-by: Arend Van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel (Deognyoun) Kim <dekim@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2014-07-31 13:45:26 -04:00