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Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/mac80211.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/mac80211.h | 81 |
1 files changed, 77 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h index 2956a206235..ec4995d0c14 100644 --- a/include/net/mac80211.h +++ b/include/net/mac80211.h @@ -95,9 +95,11 @@ struct device; * @IEEE80211_MAX_QUEUES: Maximum number of regular device queues. */ enum ieee80211_max_queues { - IEEE80211_MAX_QUEUES = 4, + IEEE80211_MAX_QUEUES = 16, }; +#define IEEE80211_INVAL_HW_QUEUE 0xff + /** * enum ieee80211_ac_numbers - AC numbers as used in mac80211 * @IEEE80211_AC_VO: voice @@ -522,7 +524,7 @@ struct ieee80211_tx_rate { * * @flags: transmit info flags, defined above * @band: the band to transmit on (use for checking for races) - * @reserved: reserved for future use + * @hw_queue: HW queue to put the frame on, skb_get_queue_mapping() gives the AC * @ack_frame_id: internal frame ID for TX status, used internally * @control: union for control data * @status: union for status data @@ -538,7 +540,7 @@ struct ieee80211_tx_info { u32 flags; u8 band; - u8 reserved; + u8 hw_queue; u16 ack_frame_id; @@ -889,6 +891,8 @@ enum ieee80211_vif_flags { * these need to be set (or cleared) when the interface is added * or, if supported by the driver, the interface type is changed * at runtime, mac80211 will never touch this field + * @hw_queue: hardware queue for each AC + * @cab_queue: content-after-beacon (DTIM beacon really) queue, AP mode only * @drv_priv: data area for driver use, will always be aligned to * sizeof(void *). */ @@ -897,7 +901,12 @@ struct ieee80211_vif { struct ieee80211_bss_conf bss_conf; u8 addr[ETH_ALEN]; bool p2p; + + u8 cab_queue; + u8 hw_queue[IEEE80211_NUM_ACS]; + u32 driver_flags; + /* must be last */ u8 drv_priv[0] __attribute__((__aligned__(sizeof(void *)))); }; @@ -1179,6 +1188,11 @@ enum sta_notify_cmd { * @IEEE80211_HW_WANT_MONITOR_VIF: The driver would like to be informed of * a virtual monitor interface when monitor interfaces are the only * active interfaces. + * + * @IEEE80211_HW_QUEUE_CONTROL: The driver wants to control per-interface + * queue mapping in order to use different queues (not just one per AC) + * for different virtual interfaces. See the doc section on HW queue + * control for more details. */ enum ieee80211_hw_flags { IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL = 1<<0, @@ -1201,7 +1215,7 @@ enum ieee80211_hw_flags { IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_UAPSD = 1<<17, IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS = 1<<18, IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR = 1<<19, - /* reuse bit 20 */ + IEEE80211_HW_QUEUE_CONTROL = 1<<20, IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_PER_STA_GTK = 1<<21, IEEE80211_HW_AP_LINK_PS = 1<<22, IEEE80211_HW_TX_AMPDU_SETUP_IN_HW = 1<<23, @@ -1271,6 +1285,9 @@ enum ieee80211_hw_flags { * @max_tx_aggregation_subframes: maximum number of subframes in an * aggregate an HT driver will transmit, used by the peer as a * hint to size its reorder buffer. + * + * @offchannel_tx_hw_queue: HW queue ID to use for offchannel TX + * (if %IEEE80211_HW_QUEUE_CONTROL is set) */ struct ieee80211_hw { struct ieee80211_conf conf; @@ -1291,6 +1308,7 @@ struct ieee80211_hw { u8 max_rate_tries; u8 max_rx_aggregation_subframes; u8 max_tx_aggregation_subframes; + u8 offchannel_tx_hw_queue; }; /** @@ -1699,6 +1717,61 @@ void ieee80211_free_txskb(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb); */ /** + * DOC: HW queue control + * + * Before HW queue control was introduced, mac80211 only had a single static + * assignment of per-interface AC software queues to hardware queues. This + * was problematic for a few reasons: + * 1) off-channel transmissions might get stuck behind other frames + * 2) multiple virtual interfaces couldn't be handled correctly + * 3) after-DTIM frames could get stuck behind other frames + * + * To solve this, hardware typically uses multiple different queues for all + * the different usages, and this needs to be propagated into mac80211 so it + * won't have the same problem with the software queues. + * + * Therefore, mac80211 now offers the %IEEE80211_HW_QUEUE_CONTROL capability + * flag that tells it that the driver implements its own queue control. To do + * so, the driver will set up the various queues in each &struct ieee80211_vif + * and the offchannel queue in &struct ieee80211_hw. In response, mac80211 will + * use those queue IDs in the hw_queue field of &struct ieee80211_tx_info and + * if necessary will queue the frame on the right software queue that mirrors + * the hardware queue. + * Additionally, the driver has to then use these HW queue IDs for the queue + * management functions (ieee80211_stop_queue() et al.) + * + * The driver is free to set up the queue mappings as needed, multiple virtual + * interfaces may map to the same hardware queues if needed. The setup has to + * happen during add_interface or change_interface callbacks. For example, a + * driver supporting station+station and station+AP modes might decide to have + * 10 hardware queues to handle different scenarios: + * + * 4 AC HW queues for 1st vif: 0, 1, 2, 3 + * 4 AC HW queues for 2nd vif: 4, 5, 6, 7 + * after-DTIM queue for AP: 8 + * off-channel queue: 9 + * + * It would then set up the hardware like this: + * hw.offchannel_tx_hw_queue = 9 + * + * and the first virtual interface that is added as follows: + * vif.hw_queue[IEEE80211_AC_VO] = 0 + * vif.hw_queue[IEEE80211_AC_VI] = 1 + * vif.hw_queue[IEEE80211_AC_BE] = 2 + * vif.hw_queue[IEEE80211_AC_BK] = 3 + * vif.cab_queue = 8 // if AP mode, otherwise %IEEE80211_INVAL_HW_QUEUE + * and the second virtual interface with 4-7. + * + * If queue 6 gets full, for example, mac80211 would only stop the second + * virtual interface's BE queue since virtual interface queues are per AC. + * + * Note that the vif.cab_queue value should be set to %IEEE80211_INVAL_HW_QUEUE + * whenever the queue is not used (i.e. the interface is not in AP mode) if the + * queue could potentially be shared since mac80211 will look at cab_queue when + * a queue is stopped/woken even if the interface is not in AP mode. + */ + +/** * enum ieee80211_filter_flags - hardware filter flags * * These flags determine what the filter in hardware should be |