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authorJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2010-07-29 16:14:13 -0400
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2010-08-16 14:39:46 -0400
commit4e6cbfd09c66893e5134c9896e9af353c2322b66 (patch)
tree274e8374c2b097058a5152da3bf6cf62d99dbad7 /include
parent68e887ef21dfd9adcf896ef92a9676bf9036a0aa (diff)
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mac80211: support use of NAPI for bottom-half processing
This patch implement basic infrastructure to support use of NAPI by mac80211-based hardware drivers. Because mac80211 devices can support multiple netdevs, a dummy netdev is used for interfacing with the NAPI code in the core of the network stack. That structure is hidden from the hardware drivers, but the actual napi_struct is exposed in the ieee80211_hw structure so that the poll routines in drivers can retrieve that structure. Hardware drivers can also specify their own weight value for NAPI polling. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/net/mac80211.h24
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index b0787a1dea90..3f1e03b521ec 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -1102,6 +1102,10 @@ enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
*
* @max_rates: maximum number of alternate rate retry stages
* @max_rate_tries: maximum number of tries for each stage
+ *
+ * @napi_weight: weight used for NAPI polling. You must specify an
+ * appropriate value here if a napi_poll operation is provided
+ * by your driver.
*/
struct ieee80211_hw {
struct ieee80211_conf conf;
@@ -1113,6 +1117,7 @@ struct ieee80211_hw {
int channel_change_time;
int vif_data_size;
int sta_data_size;
+ int napi_weight;
u16 queues;
u16 max_listen_interval;
s8 max_signal;
@@ -1687,6 +1692,8 @@ enum ieee80211_ampdu_mlme_action {
* switch operation for CSAs received from the AP may implement this
* callback. They must then call ieee80211_chswitch_done() to indicate
* completion of the channel switch.
+ *
+ * @napi_poll: Poll Rx queue for incoming data frames.
*/
struct ieee80211_ops {
int (*tx)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb);
@@ -1752,6 +1759,7 @@ struct ieee80211_ops {
void (*flush)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, bool drop);
void (*channel_switch)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
struct ieee80211_channel_switch *ch_switch);
+ int (*napi_poll)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, int budget);
};
/**
@@ -1897,6 +1905,22 @@ void ieee80211_free_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw);
*/
void ieee80211_restart_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw);
+/** ieee80211_napi_schedule - schedule NAPI poll
+ *
+ * Use this function to schedule NAPI polling on a device.
+ *
+ * @hw: the hardware to start polling
+ */
+void ieee80211_napi_schedule(struct ieee80211_hw *hw);
+
+/** ieee80211_napi_complete - complete NAPI polling
+ *
+ * Use this function to finish NAPI polling on a device.
+ *
+ * @hw: the hardware to stop polling
+ */
+void ieee80211_napi_complete(struct ieee80211_hw *hw);
+
/**
* ieee80211_rx - receive frame
*