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| author | Sam Leffler <sleffler@chromium.org> | 2012-10-11 21:03:35 -0700 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2012-10-18 09:01:53 +0200 |
| commit | cd2bb512cda58f1efb922ad6dc29013ea5d5d9d0 (patch) | |
| tree | 68d6ca0c3bed7979f578b3b554b2c8e6b668c32a /net/mac80211/scan.c | |
| parent | 15d6030b4bec618742b8b9ccae9209c8f9e4a916 (diff) | |
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mac80211: add support for tx to abort low priority scan requests
Use NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_LOW_PRIORITY flag in mac80211's scan state
machine to prematurely terminate scan operations if outbound
traffic collides. This is useful for marking background scans so
they don't affect throughput.
Signed-off-by: Sam Leffler <sleffler@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
[set feature flag only if software scan is used]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/scan.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/scan.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/scan.c b/net/mac80211/scan.c index 987c75d46bc0..13d23299e696 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/scan.c +++ b/net/mac80211/scan.c @@ -466,6 +466,7 @@ static int __ieee80211_start_scan(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, sizeof(*local->hw_scan_req) + req->n_channels * sizeof(req->channels[0]); local->hw_scan_req->ie = ies; + local->hw_scan_req->flags = req->flags; local->hw_scan_band = 0; @@ -566,6 +567,7 @@ static void ieee80211_scan_state_decision(struct ieee80211_local *local, unsigned long min_beacon_int = 0; struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata; struct ieee80211_channel *next_chan; + enum mac80211_scan_state next_scan_state; /* * check if at least one STA interface is associated, @@ -624,10 +626,18 @@ static void ieee80211_scan_state_decision(struct ieee80211_local *local, usecs_to_jiffies(min_beacon_int * 1024) * local->hw.conf.listen_interval); - if (associated && (!tx_empty || bad_latency || listen_int_exceeded)) - local->next_scan_state = SCAN_SUSPEND; - else - local->next_scan_state = SCAN_SET_CHANNEL; + if (associated && !tx_empty) { + if (local->scan_req->flags & NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_LOW_PRIORITY) + next_scan_state = SCAN_ABORT; + else + next_scan_state = SCAN_SUSPEND; + } else if (associated && (bad_latency || listen_int_exceeded)) { + next_scan_state = SCAN_SUSPEND; + } else { + next_scan_state = SCAN_SET_CHANNEL; + } + + local->next_scan_state = next_scan_state; *next_delay = 0; } @@ -798,6 +808,9 @@ void ieee80211_scan_work(struct work_struct *work) case SCAN_RESUME: ieee80211_scan_state_resume(local, &next_delay); break; + case SCAN_ABORT: + aborted = true; + goto out_complete; } } while (next_delay == 0); |