On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 09:02 +0530, Sujith wrote:
> It does make it a bit neat to have such a mechanism. And for AP mode, I would think
> that it's kinda essential unless someone comes with an ingenious way of solving
> the PS race for drivers that don't set IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS. :-)
Well, you can handle the PS stuff in the device completely -- or do it
like iwlwifi does, where it doesn't rely on the ACK to detect the race,
but the firmware will reject TX frames to sleeping stations until the
driver tells it the station woke up.
How it works is like this:
STA AWAKE -> ASLEEP transition:
- firmware marks station as asleep
- firmware rejects TX frames for this station that are in queue
- driver keeps track of # of such frames, and uses
ieee80211_sta_block_awake() to block this station while it has
frames in the queue
- rejected frames are rejected to mac80211 and queued up
ASLEEP -> AWAKE:
- due to ieee80211_sta_block_awake() wakeup is blocked until the
queue has drained as well (if station very quick wakes up), then
when both conditions are met,
- driver tells device that this station woke up
- mac80211 re-transmits all those frames
- driver queues up all those frames
johannes
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