wifi: mac80211: add internal handler for wake_tx_queue

Start to align the TX handling to only use internal TX queues (iTXQs):

Provide a handler for drivers not having a custom wake_tx_queue
callback and update the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Wetzel <alexander@wetzel-home.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index cda4584..721c450 100644 (file)
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -89,15 +89,13 @@
 /**
  * DOC: mac80211 software tx queueing
  *
- * mac80211 provides an optional intermediate queueing implementation designed
- * to allow the driver to keep hardware queues short and provide some fairness
- * between different stations/interfaces.
- * In this model, the driver pulls data frames from the mac80211 queue instead
- * of letting mac80211 push them via drv_tx().
- * Other frames (e.g. control or management) are still pushed using drv_tx().
+ * mac80211 uses an intermediate queueing implementation, designed to allow the
+ * driver to keep hardware queues short and to provide some fairness between
+ * different stations/interfaces.
  *
- * Drivers indicate that they use this model by implementing the .wake_tx_queue
- * driver operation.
+ * Drivers must provide the .wake_tx_queue driver operation by either
+ * linking it to ieee80211_handle_wake_tx_queue() or implementing a custom
+ * handler.
  *
  * Intermediate queues (struct ieee80211_txq) are kept per-sta per-tid, with
  * another per-sta for non-data/non-mgmt and bufferable management frames, and
@@ -106,9 +104,12 @@
  * The driver is expected to initialize its private per-queue data for stations
  * and interfaces in the .add_interface and .sta_add ops.
  *
- * The driver can't access the queue directly. To dequeue a frame from a
- * txq, it calls ieee80211_tx_dequeue(). Whenever mac80211 adds a new frame to a
- * queue, it calls the .wake_tx_queue driver op.
+ * The driver can't access the internal TX queues (iTXQs) directly.
+ * Whenever mac80211 adds a new frame to a queue, it calls the .wake_tx_queue
+ * driver op.
+ * Drivers implementing a custom .wake_tx_queue op can get them by calling
+ * ieee80211_tx_dequeue(). Drivers using ieee80211_handle_wake_tx_queue() will
+ * simply get the individual frames pushed via the .tx driver operation.
  *
  * Drivers can optionally delegate responsibility for scheduling queues to
  * mac80211, to take advantage of airtime fairness accounting. In this case, to
@@ -1826,7 +1827,7 @@ struct ieee80211_vif_cfg {
  *     for this interface.
  * @drv_priv: data area for driver use, will always be aligned to
  *     sizeof(void \*).
- * @txq: the multicast data TX queue (if driver uses the TXQ abstraction)
+ * @txq: the multicast data TX queue
  * @txqs_stopped: per AC flag to indicate that intermediate TXQs are stopped,
  *     protected by fq->lock.
  * @offload_flags: 802.3 -> 802.11 enapsulation offload flags, see
@@ -2259,8 +2260,8 @@ struct ieee80211_link_sta {
  *     For non MLO STA it will point to the deflink data. For MLO STA
  *     ieee80211_sta_recalc_aggregates() must be called to update it.
  * @support_p2p_ps: indicates whether the STA supports P2P PS mechanism or not.
- * @txq: per-TID data TX queues (if driver uses the TXQ abstraction); note that
- *     the last entry (%IEEE80211_NUM_TIDS) is used for non-data frames
+ * @txq: per-TID data TX queues; note that the last entry (%IEEE80211_NUM_TIDS)
+ *     is used for non-data frames
  * @deflink: This holds the default link STA information, for non MLO STA all link
  *     specific STA information is accessed through @deflink or through
  *     link[0] which points to address of @deflink. For MLO Link STA
@@ -5713,7 +5714,7 @@ void ieee80211_key_replay(struct ieee80211_key_conf *keyconf);
  * @hw: pointer as obtained from ieee80211_alloc_hw().
  * @queue: queue number (counted from zero).
  *
- * Drivers should use this function instead of netif_wake_queue.
+ * Drivers must use this function instead of netif_wake_queue.
  */
 void ieee80211_wake_queue(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, int queue);
 
@@ -5722,7 +5723,7 @@ void ieee80211_wake_queue(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, int queue);
  * @hw: pointer as obtained from ieee80211_alloc_hw().
  * @queue: queue number (counted from zero).
  *
- * Drivers should use this function instead of netif_stop_queue.
+ * Drivers must use this function instead of netif_stop_queue.
  */
 void ieee80211_stop_queue(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, int queue);
 
@@ -5731,7 +5732,7 @@ void ieee80211_stop_queue(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, int queue);
  * @hw: pointer as obtained from ieee80211_alloc_hw().
  * @queue: queue number (counted from zero).
  *
- * Drivers should use this function instead of netif_stop_queue.
+ * Drivers must use this function instead of netif_queue_stopped.
  *
  * Return: %true if the queue is stopped. %false otherwise.
  */
@@ -5742,7 +5743,7 @@ int ieee80211_queue_stopped(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, int queue);
  * ieee80211_stop_queues - stop all queues
  * @hw: pointer as obtained from ieee80211_alloc_hw().
  *
- * Drivers should use this function instead of netif_stop_queue.
+ * Drivers must use this function instead of netif_tx_stop_all_queues.
  */
 void ieee80211_stop_queues(struct ieee80211_hw *hw);
 
@@ -5750,7 +5751,7 @@ void ieee80211_stop_queues(struct ieee80211_hw *hw);
  * ieee80211_wake_queues - wake all queues
  * @hw: pointer as obtained from ieee80211_alloc_hw().
  *
- * Drivers should use this function instead of netif_wake_queue.
+ * Drivers must use this function instead of netif_tx_wake_all_queues.
  */
 void ieee80211_wake_queues(struct ieee80211_hw *hw);
 
@@ -6971,6 +6972,18 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *ieee80211_tx_dequeue_ni(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
        return skb;
 }
 
+/**
+ * ieee80211_handle_wake_tx_queue - mac80211 handler for wake_tx_queue callback
+ *
+ * @hw: pointer as obtained from wake_tx_queue() callback().
+ * @txq: pointer as obtained from wake_tx_queue() callback().
+ *
+ * Drivers can use this function for the mandatory mac80211 wake_tx_queue
+ * callback in struct ieee80211_ops. They should not call this function.
+ */
+void ieee80211_handle_wake_tx_queue(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
+                                   struct ieee80211_txq *txq);
+
 /**
  * ieee80211_next_txq - get next tx queue to pull packets from
  *

diff --git a/net/mac80211/util.c b/net/mac80211/util.c
index 40b75fa..a4bf86f 100644 (file)
--- a/net/mac80211/util.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/util.c
@@ -288,6 +288,52 @@ __le16 ieee80211_ctstoself_duration(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ieee80211_ctstoself_duration);
 
+static void wake_tx_push_queue(struct ieee80211_local *local,
+                              struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
+                              struct ieee80211_txq *queue)
+{
+       int q = sdata->vif.hw_queue[queue->ac];
+       struct ieee80211_tx_control control = {
+               .sta = queue->sta,
+       };
+       struct sk_buff *skb;
+       unsigned long flags;
+       bool q_stopped;
+
+       while (1) {
+               spin_lock_irqsave(&local->queue_stop_reason_lock, flags);
+               q_stopped = local->queue_stop_reasons[q];
+               spin_unlock_irqrestore(&local->queue_stop_reason_lock, flags);
+
+               if (q_stopped)
+                       break;
+
+               skb = ieee80211_tx_dequeue(&local->hw, queue);
+               if (!skb)
+                       break;
+
+               drv_tx(local, &control, skb);
+       }
+}
+
+/* wake_tx_queue handler for driver not implementing a custom one*/
+void ieee80211_handle_wake_tx_queue(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
+                                   struct ieee80211_txq *txq)
+{
+       struct ieee80211_local *local = hw_to_local(hw);
+       struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = vif_to_sdata(txq->vif);
+       struct ieee80211_txq *queue;
+
+       /* Use ieee80211_next_txq() for airtime fairness accounting */
+       ieee80211_txq_schedule_start(hw, txq->ac);
+       while ((queue = ieee80211_next_txq(hw, txq->ac))) {
+               wake_tx_push_queue(local, sdata, queue);
+               ieee80211_return_txq(hw, queue, false);
+       }
+       ieee80211_txq_schedule_end(hw, txq->ac);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ieee80211_handle_wake_tx_queue);
+
 static void __ieee80211_wake_txqs(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, int ac)
 {
        struct ieee80211_local *local = sdata->local;