Adding support for offloading 802.11 decapsulation to the HW. This helps in RX path optmization to 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. Sriram R (2): mac80211: add receive path for ethernet frame format ath11k: add rx path 802.11 decapsulation offloading support drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/core.h | 3 + drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp_rx.c | 185 ++++++++++++++---------- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/hal_desc.h | 2 + drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c | 20 +++ include/net/mac80211.h | 20 +++ net/mac80211/rx.c | 222 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 6 files changed, 373 insertions(+), 79 deletions(-) -- 2.7.4
