To achieve maximal throughput, it is very important to react to
interrupts as soon as possible. Currently the interrupt handler wakes up
a worker for handling interrupts in process context. A cleaner and more
efficient design would be to request a threaded interrupt handler. This
handler's priority is very high, and can do blocking operations such as
SDIO/SPI transactions.
Some work can be deferred, mostly calls to mac80211 APIs
(ieee80211_rx_ni and ieee80211_tx_status). By deferring such work to a
different worker, we can keep the irq handler thread more I/O
responsive. In addition, on multi-core systems the two threads can be
scheduled on different cores, which will improve overall performance.
The use of WL1271_FLAG_IRQ_PENDING & WL1271_FLAG_IRQ_RUNNING was
changed. For simplicity, always query the FW for more pending
interrupts. Since there are relatively long bursts of interrupts, the
extra FW status read overhead is negligible. In addition, this enables
registering the IRQ handler with the ONESHOT option.
Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
On newer hardware revisions, there is no need to write the host's
counter at the end of a RX transaction. The same applies to writing the
number of packets at the end of a TX transaction.
It is generally a good idea to avoid unnecessary SDIO/SPI transfers.
Throughput and CPU usage are improved when avoiding these.
Send the host's RX counter and the TX packet count only if needed, based
on the hardware revision.
[Changed WL12XX_QUIRK_END_OF_TRANSACTION to use BIT(0) -- Luca]
Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Frames in the tx_frames array include extra private headers, which must
be removed before passing the skbs to ieee80211_tx_status.
Fix this by removing any private headers in wl1271_tx_reset, similar to
how this is done in wl1271_tx_complete_packet.
Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Update the PS mode of each link according to a bitmap polled from
fw_status. Manually notify mac80211 about PS mode changes in connected
stations.
mac80211 will only be notified about PS start when the station is in PS
and there is a small number of TX blocks from this link ready in HW.
This is required for waking up the remote station since the TIM is
updated entirely by FW.
When a station enters mac80211-PS-mode, we drop all the skbs in the
low-level TX queues belonging to this sta with STAT_TX_FILTERED
to keep our queues clean.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Count the number of FW TX blocks allocated per link. We add blocks to a
link counter when allocated for a TX descriptor. We remove blocks
according to counters in fw_status indicating the number of freed blocks
in FW. These counters are polled after each IRQ.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Report a TX rate idx of -1 and count 0 when returning untransmitted
skbs to mac80211 using ieee80211_tx_status(). Otherwise mac80211
tries to use the returned (essentially garbage) status.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
When operating in AP-mode we require a per link tx-queue.
This allows us to implement HW assisted PS mode for links,
as well as regulate per-link FW TX blocks consumption.
Split each link into ACs to support future QoS for AP-mode.
AC queues are emptied in priority and per-link queues are
scheduled in a simple round-robin fashion.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
If a sta starts transmitting immediately after authentication, sometimes
the FW deauthenticates it. Fix this by marking the sta "in-connection"
in FW before sending the autentication response.
The "in-connection" entry is automatically removed when connection
succeeds or after a timeout.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Use the standard ALIGN() macro instead of redefining similar macros.
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Instead of looking for supported_rates change on every tx packet,
just extract the supported_rates after association completes (station only).
Remove wl1271.sta_rate_set and WL1271_FLAG_STA_RATES_CHANGED which are
not used anymore.
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Encryption key configuration is different for AP/STA modes.
AP encryption keys are recorded when the BSS is not started. On BSS
start they are propagated to the AP (in wl1271_ap_init_hwenc).
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
When in AP mode set appropriate HLID and rate policy for each skb.
Respond to supported-rates related changes in op_tx only when acting
as STA.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Split HW init sequence into AP/STA specific parts
The AP specific init sequence includes configuration of templates, rate
classes, power mode, etc. Also unmask AP specific events in the event mbox.
Separate the differences between AP and STA init into mode
specific functions called from wl1271_hw_init. The first is called after
radio configuration and the second after memory configuration.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Add commands to start/stop BSS, add/remove STA and configure encryption
keys. Split the encryption commands "set key" and "set default key" into
AP and STA specific versions.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
With the current single-queue implementation traffic priorization is not
working correctly - when using multiple BE streams and one, say VI stream,
the VI stream will share bandwidth almost equally with the BE streams.
To fix the issue, implement per AC queues, which are emptied in priority
order to the firmware. To keep it relatively simple, maintain a global
buffer count and global queue stop/wake instead of per-AC.
With these changes, priorization appears to work just fine.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
All files name prefix removed due to the fact that wl12xx driver supports
wl1271 and wl1273.
Also the definition in Kconfig and header files changed respectively.
Signed-off-by: Shahar Levi <shahar_levi@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Moved wl1251 TX path implementation into chip specific files to enable
parallel implementation for the wl1271 TX path.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
wl12xx is a driver for TI wl1251 802.11 chipset designed for embedded
devices, supporting both SDIO and SPI busses. Currently the driver
supports only SPI. Adding support 1253 (the 5 GHz version) should be
relatively easy. More information here:
http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbuproductcontent.tsp?contentId=4711&navigationId=12494&templateId=6123
(Collapsed original sequence of pre-merge patches into single commit for
initial merge. -- JWL)
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
