On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 01:50:52PM +0200, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 11:49:10AM +0200, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> > > Remove empty flag in mt76_txq_schedule_list and mt76_txq_send_burst
> > > since we just need retry_q length to notify mac80211 to reschedule the
> > > current tx queue
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/tx.c | 23 +++++++----------------
> > > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/tx.c
> > > index d7982aa83c11..51d69329ed06 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/tx.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/tx.c
> > > @@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mt76_release_buffered_frames);
> > >
> > > static int
> > > mt76_txq_send_burst(struct mt76_dev *dev, struct mt76_sw_queue *sq,
> > > - struct mt76_txq *mtxq, bool *empty)
> > > + struct mt76_txq *mtxq)
> > > {
> > > struct ieee80211_txq *txq = mtxq_to_txq(mtxq);
> > > enum mt76_txq_id qid = mt76_txq_get_qid(txq);
> > > @@ -392,16 +392,12 @@ mt76_txq_send_burst(struct mt76_dev *dev, struct mt76_sw_queue *sq,
> > > bool probe;
> > > int idx;
> > >
> > > - if (test_bit(MT_WCID_FLAG_PS, &wcid->flags)) {
> > > - *empty = true;
> > > + if (test_bit(MT_WCID_FLAG_PS, &wcid->flags))
> > > return 0;
> >
> > This changes behaviour for station in PS state. If retry_q is not
> > empty, now we will be rescheduling tx queue for STA in PS mode.
> > Not sure if this is problem or not, though.
>
> good point..looking at the code it seems not a issue since we will not actually
> tx frames for PS stations. What do you think?
I do not see how changing this could possibly break things, but it
was explicitly added by below commit, with changelog sugesting it is
needed:
commit d225581df3147060bc99e931b11f7cf2dcb1b2ca
Author: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Jan 21 17:33:38 2019 +0100
mt76: avoid scheduling tx queues for powersave stations
In case a tx queue wake call arrives after a client has transitioned to
powersave, make sure that the queue is not kept active until the client
has left powersave mode
Stanislaw
