Search Linux Wireless

Re: [RFC] mac80211: fix scan state machine

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Hi,

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan
<mohammed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> when we run high bandwidth UDP traffic and we trigger a scan, the scan
> state machine seems to be looping in SUSPEND->RESUME->DECISION->SUSPEND
> and SET_CHANNEL seems to be never called as 'tx_empty' is never true
> while running UDP traffic. fix this by settting SET_CHANNEL state when
> we get into RESUME state.

Your analysis looks correct to me. Previously (before the
simplification patches)
the logic to always scan at least one channel was put in scan_state_decision but
maybe it makes sense to have it in scan_state_resume.

So, to me the patch looks good.

Helmut

> Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  net/mac80211/scan.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/scan.c b/net/mac80211/scan.c
> index 2c5041c..2908e56 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/scan.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/scan.c
> @@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ static void ieee80211_scan_state_resume(struct ieee80211_local *local,
>        local->leave_oper_channel_time = jiffies;
>
>        /* advance to the next channel to be scanned */
> -       local->next_scan_state = SCAN_DECISION;
> +       local->next_scan_state = SCAN_SET_CHANNEL;
>  }
>
>  void ieee80211_scan_work(struct work_struct *work)
> --
> 1.7.0.4
>
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html


[Index of Archives]     [Linux Host AP]     [ATH6KL]     [Linux Bluetooth]     [Linux Netdev]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Linux Kernel]     [IDE]     [Security]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux ATA RAID]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]
  Powered by Linux