Software scanning can be used for workaround some performance problems,
so do not deprecate it.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When the chip is still asleep when ath9k_start is called,
ath9k_hw_configpcipowersave can trigger a data bus error.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (56 commits)
route: Take the right src and dst addresses in ip_route_newports
ipv4: Fix nexthop caching wrt. scoping.
ipv4: Invalidate nexthop cache nh_saddr more correctly.
net: fix pch_gbe section mismatch warning
ipv4: fix fib metrics
mlx4_en: Removing HW info from ethtool -i report.
net_sched: fix THROTTLED/RUNNING race
drivers/net/a2065.c: Convert release_resource to release_region/release_mem_region
drivers/net/ariadne.c: Convert release_resource to release_region/release_mem_region
bonding: fix rx_handler locking
myri10ge: fix rmmod crash
mlx4_en: updated driver version to 1.5.4.1
mlx4_en: Using blue flame support
mlx4_core: reserve UARs for userspace consumers
mlx4_core: maintain available field in bitmap allocator
mlx4: Add blue flame support for kernel consumers
mlx4_en: Enabling new steering
mlx4: Add support for promiscuous mode in the new steering model.
mlx4: generalization of multicast steering.
mlx4_en: Reporting HW revision in ethtool -i
...
This gives much better performance at fast 3x3 rates (up to ~160 Mbps).
The scheduler will still make most decisions about batch size based on
available packets and RX parameters.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Throughout the code we use rate_n_flags & 0xff to extract the lower byte
of the rate_n_flags u32 that contains the information about the rate.
Add a #define and remove the use of the magic number.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Since the driver split, there's no need for no_agg_framecnt_info since
all devices have this set to false. Secondly, the compressed block ack
handling code was broken. Fix this.
(1) A shift less than zero simply implies that the buffer wrapped, this
is expected. Remove the incorrect comment.
(2) The (agg->frame_count > (64-sh)) condition can happen if the last
frame is dropped. E.g., if I send 7 frames and the 6th is received but
the 7th is lost, the other side may only shift the window 6, not 7
frames since the last bit is a 0. This is perfectly fine behavior and
doesn't invalidate the feedback.
(3) Store the feedback from a Compressed BA in the first newly received
frame, rather than the start of the window. This way it will get
processed by the rate selection code. Feedback stored in a non-received
frame is likely to get overwritten by the retransmission.
This is based on the approach taken by minstrel_ht.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
When filling out its rate scale table, iwlwifi repeats the first HT rate
IWL_HT_NUMBER_TRY times. The hardware scheduler will stop using
aggregation for any frame that fails LINK_QUAL_AGG_DISABLE_START_DEF
times. Currently, both these constants equal 3.
If iwlwifi probes a faster rate than the link supports, all frames in a
(potentially tens of frames large) batch will fail IWL_HT_NUMBER_TRY
times. Because this happens to be as large as
LINK_QUAL_AGG_DISABLE_START_DEF, all frames will then be sent
individually. This leads to a short, but performance-degrading window
where the legacy stop-and-wait MAC takes over.
Bounding the initial rate by (LINK_QUAL_AGG_DISABLE_START_DEF-1)
attempts makes the third try use a lower rate and hence more be likely
to succeed. This somewhat mitigates the above described behavior.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
iwlagn's hardware scheduler needs to be set up
with the right aggregation frame limit and
buffer sizes. To achieve this, we need to move
the hardware queue setup to when the session
becomes operational.
Tested-by: Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Since the driver split, there's no need for
function pointers any more for aggregation
queue setup and teardown as all devices now
share the same code. Simplify this.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
commit 86271e460a introduced a
regression that caused mac80211 queues in stopped state.
ath_drain_all_txq is called in driver flush which would reset
the stopped flag and the mac80211 queues were never started
after that. iperf traffic is completely stalled due to this issue.
Restart the mac80211 queues in driver flush only if the txqs were
drained.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
With the recent tx status optimization in mac80211, we bail out as
and and when invalid rate index is found. So the behavior of resetting
rate idx to -1 and count to 0 has changed for the rate indexes that
were not part of the driver's retry series.
This has resulted in ath9k using incorrect rate table index which
caused the system to panic. Ideally ath9k need to loop only for the
indexes that were part of the retry series and so simply use hw->max_rates
as the loop counter.
Pasted the stack trace of the panic issue for reference.
[ 754.093192] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff88046a9025b0
[ 754.093256] IP: [<ffffffffa02eac49>] ath_tx_status+0x209/0x2f0 [ath9k]
[ 754.094888] Call Trace:
[ 754.094903] <IRQ>
[ 754.094928] [<ffffffffa051f883>] ieee80211_tx_status+0x203/0x9e0 [mac80211]
[ 754.094975] [<ffffffffa053e305>] ? __ieee80211_wake_queue+0x125/0x140 [mac80211]
[ 754.095017] [<ffffffffa02e66c9>] ath_tx_complete_buf+0x1b9/0x370 [ath9k]
[ 754.095054] [<ffffffffa02e6fcf>] ath_tx_complete_aggr+0x51f/0xb50 [ath9k]
[ 754.095098] [<ffffffffa05382a3>] ? ieee80211_prepare_and_rx_handle+0x173/0xab0 [mac80211]
[ 754.095148] [<ffffffff81350e62>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x32/0x40
[ 754.095186] [<ffffffffa02e9735>] ath_tx_tasklet+0x365/0x4b0 [ath9k]
[ 754.095224] [<ffffffff8107a2a2>] ? clockevents_program_event+0x62/0xa0
[ 754.095261] [<ffffffffa02e2628>] ath9k_tasklet+0x168/0x1c0 [ath9k]
[ 754.095298] [<ffffffff8105599b>] tasklet_action+0x6b/0xe0
[ 754.095331] [<ffffffff81056278>] __do_softirq+0x98/0x120
[ 754.095361] [<ffffffff8100cd5c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
[ 754.095393] [<ffffffff8100efb5>] do_softirq+0x65/0xa0
[ 754.095423] [<ffffffff810563fd>] irq_exit+0x8d/0x90
[ 754.095453] [<ffffffff8100ebc1>] do_IRQ+0x61/0xe0
[ 754.095482] [<ffffffff81351413>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0x15
[ 754.095513] <EOI>
[ 754.095531] [<ffffffff81014375>] ? native_sched_clock+0x15/0x70
[ 754.096475] [<ffffffffa02bcfa6>] ? acpi_idle_enter_bm+0x24d/0x285 [processor]
[ 754.096475] [<ffffffffa02bcf9f>] ? acpi_idle_enter_bm+0x246/0x285 [processor]
[ 754.096475] [<ffffffff8127fab2>] cpuidle_idle_call+0x82/0x100
[ 754.096475] [<ffffffff8100a236>] cpu_idle+0xa6/0xf0
[ 754.096475] [<ffffffff81339bc1>] rest_init+0x91/0xa0
[ 754.096475] [<ffffffff814efccd>] start_kernel+0x3fd/0x408
[ 754.096475] [<ffffffff814ef347>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x132/0x136
[ 754.096475] [<ffffffff814ef451>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x106/0x115
[ 754.096475] RIP [<ffffffffa02eac49>] ath_tx_status+0x209/0x2f0 [ath9k]
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
On hardware busy the scan request pointer should be cleared, as higher
levels will release. This avoids a crash when that pointer is
erroneously used later.
Signed-off-by: Joseph J. Gunn <armadefuego@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Clearly a mistake, since pointers won't suddenly
change their value...
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
These were found using the following semantic match:
// <smpl>
@@expression E1; type T;@@
* memset(E1, ... * sizeof(T) * ..., ...);
// </smpl>
Also take this opportunity to remove the unnecessary void* casts.
Signed-off-by: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add unknown Toshiba device, mentioned in rt3572sta sources, under
CONFIG_RT2800USB_UNKNOWN
Signed-off-by: Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add 2L Central Europe BV 8070 under CONFIG_RT2800USB_UNKNOWN
Signed-off-by: Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add Planex Communications, Inc. RT8070 under CONFIG_RT2800USB_UNKNOWN
Signed-off-by: Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add ID for Asus USB-N11 Wi-FI adapter. Tested by me.
Signed-off-by: Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Removing an entry from the scan_list should be performed while holding
the lock.
Signed-off-by: Joseph J. Gunn <armadefuego@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We should unlock here instead of returning -EINVAL directly.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* 'trivial' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: (25 commits)
video: change to new flag variable
scsi: change to new flag variable
rtc: change to new flag variable
rapidio: change to new flag variable
pps: change to new flag variable
net: change to new flag variable
misc: change to new flag variable
message: change to new flag variable
memstick: change to new flag variable
isdn: change to new flag variable
ieee802154: change to new flag variable
ide: change to new flag variable
hwmon: change to new flag variable
dma: change to new flag variable
char: change to new flag variable
fs: change to new flag variable
xtensa: change to new flag variable
um: change to new flag variables
s390: change to new flag variable
mips: change to new flag variable
...
Fix up trivial conflict in drivers/hwmon/Makefile
Replace EXTRA_CFLAGS with ccflags-y.
Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sjur Braendeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1480 commits)
bonding: enable netpoll without checking link status
xfrm: Refcount destination entry on xfrm_lookup
net: introduce rx_handler results and logic around that
bonding: get rid of IFF_SLAVE_INACTIVE netdev->priv_flag
bonding: wrap slave state work
net: get rid of multiple bond-related netdevice->priv_flags
bonding: register slave pointer for rx_handler
be2net: Bump up the version number
be2net: Copyright notice change. Update to Emulex instead of ServerEngines
e1000e: fix kconfig for crc32 dependency
netfilter ebtables: fix xt_AUDIT to work with ebtables
xen network backend driver
bonding: Improve syslog message at device creation time
bonding: Call netif_carrier_off after register_netdevice
bonding: Incorrect TX queue offset
net_sched: fix ip_tos2prio
xfrm: fix __xfrm_route_forward()
be2net: Fix UDP packet detected status in RX compl
Phonet: fix aligned-mode pipe socket buffer header reserve
netxen: support for GbE port settings
...
Fix up conflicts in drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/wl_mac80211.c
with the staging updates.
* 'for-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: fix build failure introduced by s/freezeable/freezable/
workqueue: add system_freezeable_wq
rds/ib: use system_wq instead of rds_ib_fmr_wq
net/9p: replace p9_poll_task with a work
net/9p: use system_wq instead of p9_mux_wq
xfs: convert to alloc_workqueue()
reiserfs: make commit_wq use the default concurrency level
ocfs2: use system_wq instead of ocfs2_quota_wq
ext4: convert to alloc_workqueue()
scsi/scsi_tgt_lib: scsi_tgtd isn't used in memory reclaim path
scsi/be2iscsi,qla2xxx: convert to alloc_workqueue()
misc/iwmc3200top: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueues
i2o: use alloc_workqueue() instead of create_workqueue()
acpi: kacpi*_wq don't need WQ_MEM_RECLAIM
fs/aio: aio_wq isn't used in memory reclaim path
input/tps6507x-ts: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueue
cpufreq: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueues
wireless/ipw2x00: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueues
arm/omap: use system_wq in mailbox
workqueue: use WQ_MEM_RECLAIM instead of WQ_RESCUER
Some clients seems to keep track of their reorder window even after an
aggregation session has been disabled. This causes issues if there are
still retried but not completed frames pending for the TID.
To ensure that rx does not stall in such situations, set sendbar to 1
for any frame purged from the TID queue on teardown.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k calls ath9k_hw_stoptxdma every time it sends a beacon, however there
is not much point in doing that if the previous beacon and mcast traffic
went out properly. On AR9380, calling that function too often can result
in an increase of stuck beacons due to differences in the handling of the
queue enable/disable functionality.
With this patch, the queue will only be explicitly stopped if the previous
data frames were not sent successfully. With the beacon code being the
only remaining user of ath9k_hw_stoptxdma, this function can be simplified
in order to remove the now pointless attempts at waiting for transmission
completion, which would never happen at this point due to the different
method of tx scheduling of the beacon queue.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch simplifies the flush op and reuses ath_drain_all_txq for
flushing out pending frames if necessary. It also uses a global timeout
of 200ms instead of the per-queue 60ms timeout.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In some situations, stopping Tx DMA frequently fails, leading to messages
like this:
ath: Failed to stop TX DMA in 100 msec after killing last frame
ath: Failed to stop TX DMA!
This patch uses a few MAC features to abort DMA globally instead of iterating
over all hardware queues and attempting to stop them individually.
Not only is that faster and works with a shorter timeout, it also makes the
process much more reliable.
With this change, I can no longer trigger these messages on AR9380,
and on AR9280 they become much more rare.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add support to iwlagn for off-channel TX. The
microcode API for this is a bit strange in that
it uses a hacked-up scan command, so the scan
code needs to change quite a bit to accomodate
that and be able to send it out.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
defs.meshie.val.mesh_id is 32 chars long. It's not supposed to be NUL
terminated. This code puts a terminator on the end to make it easier to
print to sysfs. The problem is that if the mesh_id fills the entire
buffer the original code puts the terminator one spot past the end.
The way the original code was written, there was a check to make sure
that maxlen was less than PAGE_SIZE. Since we know that maxlen is at
most 34 chars, I just removed the check.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Increasing the wait count makes the nf load pass in
most of the cases.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Increase the delay to make sure the initialization of pll
passes.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Set some GPIO pins to Pull-down mode to save power.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The hardware rx filter flag triggered by FIF_PROMISC_IN_BSS is overly broad
and covers even frames with PHY errors. When this flag is enabled, this message
shows up frequently during scanning or hardware resets:
ath: Could not stop RX, we could be confusing the DMA engine when we start RX up
Since promiscuous mode is usually not particularly useful, yet enabled by
default by bridging (either used normally in 4-addr mode, or with hacks
for various virtualization software), we should sacrifice it for better
reliability during normal operation.
This patch leaves it enabled if there are active monitor mode interfaces, since
it's very useful for debugging.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
While working on PS I've noticed elp_work is kicking rather often, and
sometimes the chip is put to sleep before 5ms delay expires. This
seems to happen because by the time wl1251_ps_elp_wakeup is called
elp_work might still be pending. After wakeup is done, the processing
may take some time, during which 5ms might expire and elp_work might
get scheduled. In this case, ss soon as 1st thread finishes work and
releases the mutex, elp_work will then put the device to sleep without
5ms delay. In addition 1st thread will queue additional elp_work
needlessly.
Fix this by cancelling work in wl1251_ps_elp_wakeup instead.
Signed-off-by: Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
wl1251_ps_set_elp() only does acx_sleep_auth call and takes the chip
from/to ELP, however all callers of wl1251_ps_set_mode() have already
taken the chip out of ELP and puts it back to ELP when they finish.
This makes ELP calls (and register writes they result in) superfluous.
So remove wl1251_ps_set_elp function and call acx_sleep_auth directly.
Signed-off-by: Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
