We use ieee80211_tx_status() to report each completed tx frame.
Internally, this function calls sta_info_get_by_addrs(), what has a
couple of drawbacks:
1. additional station lookup causes a performance degradation;
2. mac80211 can not properly account Ethernet encapsulated frames due
to the inability to properly determine the destination (station) MAC
address since ieee80211_tx_status() assumes the frame has a 802.11
header.
The latter is especially destructive if we want to use hardware frames
encapsulation.
To fix both of these issues, replace ieee80211_tx_status() with
ieee80211_tx_status_ext() call and feed it station pointer from the tx
queue associated with the transmitted frame.
Tested-on: QCA9888 hw 2.0 10.4-3.9.0.2-00131
Tested-on: QCA6174 hw 3.2 PCI WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00157-QCARMSWPZ-1
Signed-off-by: Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Oldřich Jedlička <oldium.pro@xxxxxxxxx> # TP-Link Archer C7 v4 & v5 (QCA9563 + QCA9880)
Tested-by: Edward Matijevic <motolav@xxxxxxxxx> # TP-Link Archer C2600 (IPQ8064 + QCA9980 10.4.1.00030-1)
Tested-by: Edward Matijevic <motolav@xxxxxxxxx> # QCA9377 PCI in Sta mode
Tested-by: Zhijun You <hujy652@xxxxxxxxx> # NETGEAR R7800 (QCA9984 10.4-3.9.0.2-00159)
---
Changes since RFC:
* new Tested-on and Tested-by tags
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/txrx.c | 12 +++++++++++-
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/txrx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/txrx.c
index 10123974c3da..72540434c75b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/txrx.c
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ static void ath10k_report_offchan_tx(struct ath10k *ar, struct sk_buff *skb)
int ath10k_txrx_tx_unref(struct ath10k_htt *htt,
const struct htt_tx_done *tx_done)
{
+ struct ieee80211_tx_status status;
struct ath10k *ar = htt->ar;
struct device *dev = ar->dev;
struct ieee80211_tx_info *info;
@@ -128,7 +129,16 @@ int ath10k_txrx_tx_unref(struct ath10k_htt *htt,
info->status.flags |= IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_ACK_SIGNAL_VALID;
}
- ieee80211_tx_status(htt->ar->hw, msdu);
+ memset(&status, 0, sizeof(status));
+ status.skb = msdu;
+ status.info = info;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ if (txq && txq->sta)
+ status.sta = txq->sta;
+ ieee80211_tx_status_ext(htt->ar->hw, &status);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+
/* we do not own the msdu anymore */
return 0;
--
2.35.1
