kernel/net/mac80211/tx.c, branch linux-5.1.y

mac80211: make ieee80211_schedule_txq schedule empty TXQs

2019-04-08T11:31:31Z

Currently there is no way for the driver to signal to mac80211 that it should schedule a TXQ even if there are no packets on the mac80211 part of that queue. This is problematic if the driver has an internal retry queue to deal with software A-MPDU retry. This patch changes the behavior of ieee80211_schedule_txq to always schedule the queue, as its only user (ath9k) seems to expect such behavior already: it calls this function on tx status and on powersave wakeup whenever its internal retry queue is not empty. Also add an extra argument to ieee80211_return_txq to get the same behavior. This fixes an issue on ath9k where tx queues with packets to retry (and no new packets in mac80211) would not get serviced. Fixes: 89cea7493a346 ("ath9k: Switch to mac80211 TXQ scheduling and airtime APIs") Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: rework locking for txq scheduling / airtime fairness

2019-03-29T10:27:44Z

Holding the lock around the entire duration of tx scheduling can create some nasty lock contention, especially when processing airtime information from the tx status or the rx path. Improve locking by only holding the active_txq_lock for lookups / scheduling list modifications. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: fix memory accounting with A-MSDU aggregation

2019-03-29T10:21:25Z

skb->truesize can change due to memory reallocation or when adding extra fragments. Adjust fq->memory_usage accordingly Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2019-02-08T23:00:17Z

An ipvlan bug fix in 'net' conflicted with the abstraction away of the IPV6 specific support in 'net-next'. Similarly, a bug fix for mlx5 in 'net' conflicted with the flow action conversion in 'net-next'. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

mac80211: ensure that mgmt tx skbs have tailroom for encryption

2019-02-01T10:08:02Z

Some drivers use IEEE80211_KEY_FLAG_SW_MGMT_TX to indicate that management frames need to be software encrypted. Since normal data packets are still encrypted by the hardware, crypto_tx_tailroom_needed_cnt gets decremented after key upload to hw. This can lead to passing skbs to ccmp_encrypt_skb, which don't have the necessary tailroom for software encryption. Change the code to add tailroom for encrypted management packets, even if crypto_tx_tailroom_needed_cnt is 0. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: remove unused variable

2019-01-28T10:47:47Z

Clearly, I missed this when trying out the previously merged patches. Remove the spurious variable now. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: Expose ieee80211_schedule_txq() function

2019-01-25T13:05:27Z

Since we reworked ieee80211_return_txq() so it assumes that the caller takes care of logging, we need another function that can be called without holding any locks. Introduce ieee80211_schedule_txq() which serves this purpose. Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: Add airtime accounting and scheduling to TXQs

2019-01-19T08:31:43Z

This adds airtime accounting and scheduling to the mac80211 TXQ scheduler. A new callback, ieee80211_sta_register_airtime(), is added that drivers can call to report airtime usage for stations. When airtime information is present, mac80211 will schedule TXQs (through ieee80211_next_txq()) in a way that enforces airtime fairness between active stations. This scheduling works the same way as the ath9k in-driver airtime fairness scheduling. If no airtime usage is reported by the driver, the scheduler will default to round-robin scheduling. For drivers that don't control TXQ scheduling in software, a new API function, ieee80211_txq_may_transmit(), is added which the driver can use to check if the TXQ is eligible for transmission, or should be throttled to enforce fairness. Calls to this function must also be enclosed in ieee80211_txq_schedule_{start,end}() calls to ensure proper locking. The API ieee80211_txq_may_transmit() also ensures that TXQ list will be aligned aginst driver's own round-robin scheduler list. i.e it rotates the TXQ list till it makes the requested node becomes the first entry in TXQ list. Thus both the TXQ list and driver's list are in sync. Co-developed-by: Rajkumar Manoharan Signed-off-by: Louie Lu [added debugfs write op to reset airtime counter] Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: Add TXQ scheduling API

2019-01-19T08:24:12Z

This adds an API to mac80211 to handle scheduling of TXQs. The interface between driver and mac80211 for TXQ handling is changed by adding two new functions: ieee80211_next_txq(), which will return the next TXQ to schedule in the current round-robin rotation, and ieee80211_return_txq(), which the driver uses to indicate that it has finished scheduling a TXQ (which will then be put back in the scheduling rotation if it isn't empty). The driver must call ieee80211_txq_schedule_start() at the start of each scheduling session, and ieee80211_txq_schedule_end() at the end. The API then guarantees that the same TXQ is not returned twice in the same session (so a driver can loop on ieee80211_next_txq() without worrying about breaking the loop. Usage of the new API is optional, so drivers can be ported one at a time. In this patch, the actual scheduling performed by mac80211 is simple round-robin, but a subsequent commit adds airtime fairness awareness to the scheduler. Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [minor kernel-doc fix, propagate sparse locking checks out] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

Merge tag 'mac80211-next-for-davem-2018-12-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next

2018-12-19T16:36:18Z

Johannes Berg says: ==================== This time we have too many changes to list, highlights: * virt_wifi - wireless control simulation on top of another network interface * hwsim configurability to test capabilities similar to real hardware * various mesh improvements * various radiotap vendor data fixes in mac80211 * finally the nl_set_extack_cookie_u64() we talked about previously, used for * peer measurement APIs, right now only with FTM (flight time measurement) for location * made nl80211 radio/interface announcements more complete * various new HE (802.11ax) things: updates, TWT support, ... ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller