Adding support for offloading 802.11 decapsulation to the HW. This reduces the CPU cycles spent on host CPU for doing the conversion from 802.11 format to ethernet format and thereby improving the performance of the device. Note: Ath11k patch in this patchset depends on PN offload series and the multi reo patchset with the following name. "Support hash based reo destination ring selection" Manikanta Pubbisetty (2): mac80211: add receive path for ethernet frame format ath11k: add rx hw 802.11 decapsulation offloading support drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/core.c | 4 + drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/core.h | 3 + drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp_rx.c | 184 ++++++++++++++---------- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/hal_desc.h | 2 + drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c | 21 +++ include/net/mac80211.h | 20 +++ net/mac80211/rx.c | 215 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 7 files changed, 370 insertions(+), 79 deletions(-) -- 2.7.4
