When mac80211 wants to ensure that a frame is sent, it calls the flush() callback. Until now, iwldvm implemented this by waiting that all the frames are sent (ACKed or timeout). In case of weak signal, this can take a significant amount of time, delaying the next connection (in case of roaming). Many users have reported that the flush would take too long leading to the following error messages to be printed: iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: fail to flush all tx fifo queues Q 2 iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Current SW read_ptr 161 write_ptr 201 iwl data: 00000000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fe ff 01 00 00 00 00 00 [snip] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: FH TRBs(0) = 0x00000000 [snip] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Q 0 is active and mapped to fifo 3 ra_tid 0x0000 [9,9] [snip] Instead of waiting for these packets, simply drop them. This significantly improves the responsiveness of the network. Note that all the queues are flushed, but the VO one. This is not typically used by the applications and it likely contains management frames that are useful for connection or roaming. This bug is tracked here: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56581 But it is duplicated in distributions' trackers. A simple search in Ubuntu's database led to these bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/+bug/1270808 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1305406 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1356236 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1360597 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1361809 Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx> --- I am trying here to fix an issues that has been affecting many users on dvm. A few users in bugzilla already reported that this patch helped them a lot. I am trying to get more testers :) --- drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/mac80211.c | 24 +++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/mac80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/mac80211.c index d8ebc7e..b1a23dc 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/mac80211.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/mac80211.c @@ -1095,6 +1095,7 @@ static void iwlagn_mac_flush(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_vif *vif, u32 queues, bool drop) { struct iwl_priv *priv = IWL_MAC80211_GET_DVM(hw); + u32 scd_queues; mutex_lock(&priv->mutex); IWL_DEBUG_MAC80211(priv, "enter\n"); @@ -1108,18 +1109,19 @@ static void iwlagn_mac_flush(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_vif *vif, goto done; } - /* - * mac80211 will not push any more frames for transmit - * until the flush is completed - */ - if (drop) { - IWL_DEBUG_MAC80211(priv, "send flush command\n"); - if (iwlagn_txfifo_flush(priv, 0)) { - IWL_ERR(priv, "flush request fail\n"); - goto done; - } + scd_queues = BIT(priv->cfg->base_params->num_of_queues) - 1; + scd_queues &= ~(BIT(IWL_IPAN_CMD_QUEUE_NUM) | + BIT(IWL_DEFAULT_CMD_QUEUE_NUM)); + + if (vif) + scd_queues &= ~BIT(vif->hw_queue[IEEE80211_AC_VO]); + + IWL_DEBUG_TX_QUEUES(priv, "Flushing SCD queues: 0x%x\n", scd_queues); + if (iwlagn_txfifo_flush(priv, scd_queues)) { + IWL_ERR(priv, "flush request fail\n"); + goto done; } - IWL_DEBUG_MAC80211(priv, "wait transmit/flush all frames\n"); + IWL_DEBUG_TX_QUEUES(priv, "wait transmit/flush all frames\n"); iwl_trans_wait_tx_queue_empty(priv->trans, 0xffffffff); done: mutex_unlock(&priv->mutex); -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
