ath10k: drop probe responses when too many are queued

In a noisy environment, when multiple interfaces are created,
the management tx descriptors are fully occupied by the probe
responses from all the interfaces. This prevents a new station
from a successful association.

Fix this by limiting the probe responses when the specified
threshold limit is reached.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <nataraja@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
This commit is contained in:
Vivek Natarajan 2015-08-31 16:34:55 +05:30 committed by Kalle Valo
parent a925a37639
commit 7b7da0a021
5 changed files with 68 additions and 11 deletions

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@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
.has_shifted_cc_wraparound = true,
.otp_exe_param = 0,
.channel_counters_freq_hz = 88000,
.max_probe_resp_desc_thres = 0,
.fw = {
.dir = QCA988X_HW_2_0_FW_DIR,
.fw = QCA988X_HW_2_0_FW_FILE,
@ -70,6 +71,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
.uart_pin = 6,
.otp_exe_param = 0,
.channel_counters_freq_hz = 88000,
.max_probe_resp_desc_thres = 0,
.fw = {
.dir = QCA6174_HW_2_1_FW_DIR,
.fw = QCA6174_HW_2_1_FW_FILE,
@ -86,6 +88,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
.uart_pin = 6,
.otp_exe_param = 0,
.channel_counters_freq_hz = 88000,
.max_probe_resp_desc_thres = 0,
.fw = {
.dir = QCA6174_HW_3_0_FW_DIR,
.fw = QCA6174_HW_3_0_FW_FILE,
@ -102,6 +105,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
.uart_pin = 6,
.otp_exe_param = 0,
.channel_counters_freq_hz = 88000,
.max_probe_resp_desc_thres = 0,
.fw = {
/* uses same binaries as hw3.0 */
.dir = QCA6174_HW_3_0_FW_DIR,
@ -120,6 +124,7 @@ static const struct ath10k_hw_params ath10k_hw_params_list[] = {
.otp_exe_param = 0x00000700,
.continuous_frag_desc = true,
.channel_counters_freq_hz = 150000,
.max_probe_resp_desc_thres = 24,
.fw = {
.dir = QCA99X0_HW_2_0_FW_DIR,
.fw = QCA99X0_HW_2_0_FW_FILE,

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@ -612,6 +612,11 @@ struct ath10k {
u32 channel_counters_freq_hz;
/* Mgmt tx descriptors threshold for limiting probe response
* frames.
*/
u32 max_probe_resp_desc_thres;
struct ath10k_hw_params_fw {
const char *dir;
const char *fw;

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@ -1485,6 +1485,7 @@ struct ath10k_htt {
spinlock_t tx_lock;
int max_num_pending_tx;
int num_pending_tx;
int num_pending_mgmt_tx;
struct idr pending_tx;
wait_queue_head_t empty_tx_wq;
struct dma_pool *tx_pool;
@ -1587,7 +1588,7 @@ int ath10k_htt_h2t_aggr_cfg_msg(struct ath10k_htt *htt,
u8 max_subfrms_ampdu,
u8 max_subfrms_amsdu);
void __ath10k_htt_tx_dec_pending(struct ath10k_htt *htt);
void __ath10k_htt_tx_dec_pending(struct ath10k_htt *htt, bool limit_mgmt_desc);
int ath10k_htt_tx_alloc_msdu_id(struct ath10k_htt *htt, struct sk_buff *skb);
void ath10k_htt_tx_free_msdu_id(struct ath10k_htt *htt, u16 msdu_id);
int ath10k_htt_mgmt_tx(struct ath10k_htt *htt, struct sk_buff *);

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@ -22,22 +22,28 @@
#include "txrx.h"
#include "debug.h"
void __ath10k_htt_tx_dec_pending(struct ath10k_htt *htt)
void __ath10k_htt_tx_dec_pending(struct ath10k_htt *htt, bool limit_mgmt_desc)
{
if (limit_mgmt_desc)
htt->num_pending_mgmt_tx--;
htt->num_pending_tx--;
if (htt->num_pending_tx == htt->max_num_pending_tx - 1)
ath10k_mac_tx_unlock(htt->ar, ATH10K_TX_PAUSE_Q_FULL);
}
static void ath10k_htt_tx_dec_pending(struct ath10k_htt *htt)
static void ath10k_htt_tx_dec_pending(struct ath10k_htt *htt,
bool limit_mgmt_desc)
{
spin_lock_bh(&htt->tx_lock);
__ath10k_htt_tx_dec_pending(htt);
__ath10k_htt_tx_dec_pending(htt, limit_mgmt_desc);
spin_unlock_bh(&htt->tx_lock);
}
static int ath10k_htt_tx_inc_pending(struct ath10k_htt *htt)
static int ath10k_htt_tx_inc_pending(struct ath10k_htt *htt,
bool limit_mgmt_desc, bool is_probe_resp)
{
struct ath10k *ar = htt->ar;
int ret = 0;
spin_lock_bh(&htt->tx_lock);
@ -47,6 +53,15 @@ static int ath10k_htt_tx_inc_pending(struct ath10k_htt *htt)
goto exit;
}
if (limit_mgmt_desc) {
if (is_probe_resp && (htt->num_pending_mgmt_tx >
ar->hw_params.max_probe_resp_desc_thres)) {
ret = -EBUSY;
goto exit;
}
htt->num_pending_mgmt_tx++;
}
htt->num_pending_tx++;
if (htt->num_pending_tx == htt->max_num_pending_tx)
ath10k_mac_tx_lock(htt->ar, ATH10K_TX_PAUSE_Q_FULL);
@ -417,8 +432,19 @@ int ath10k_htt_mgmt_tx(struct ath10k_htt *htt, struct sk_buff *msdu)
int len = 0;
int msdu_id = -1;
int res;
struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)msdu->data;
bool limit_mgmt_desc = false;
bool is_probe_resp = false;
if (ar->hw_params.max_probe_resp_desc_thres) {
limit_mgmt_desc = true;
if (ieee80211_is_probe_resp(hdr->frame_control))
is_probe_resp = true;
}
res = ath10k_htt_tx_inc_pending(htt, limit_mgmt_desc, is_probe_resp);
res = ath10k_htt_tx_inc_pending(htt);
if (res)
goto err;
@ -476,7 +502,7 @@ err_free_msdu_id:
ath10k_htt_tx_free_msdu_id(htt, msdu_id);
spin_unlock_bh(&htt->tx_lock);
err_tx_dec:
ath10k_htt_tx_dec_pending(htt);
ath10k_htt_tx_dec_pending(htt, limit_mgmt_desc);
err:
return res;
}
@ -498,8 +524,18 @@ int ath10k_htt_tx(struct ath10k_htt *htt, struct sk_buff *msdu)
dma_addr_t paddr = 0;
u32 frags_paddr = 0;
struct htt_msdu_ext_desc *ext_desc = NULL;
bool limit_mgmt_desc = false;
bool is_probe_resp = false;
res = ath10k_htt_tx_inc_pending(htt);
if (unlikely(ieee80211_is_mgmt(hdr->frame_control)) &&
ar->hw_params.max_probe_resp_desc_thres) {
limit_mgmt_desc = true;
if (ieee80211_is_probe_resp(hdr->frame_control))
is_probe_resp = true;
}
res = ath10k_htt_tx_inc_pending(htt, limit_mgmt_desc, is_probe_resp);
if (res)
goto err;
@ -678,7 +714,7 @@ err_free_msdu_id:
ath10k_htt_tx_free_msdu_id(htt, msdu_id);
spin_unlock_bh(&htt->tx_lock);
err_tx_dec:
ath10k_htt_tx_dec_pending(htt);
ath10k_htt_tx_dec_pending(htt, limit_mgmt_desc);
err:
return res;
}

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@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ void ath10k_txrx_tx_unref(struct ath10k_htt *htt,
struct ieee80211_tx_info *info;
struct ath10k_skb_cb *skb_cb;
struct sk_buff *msdu;
struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr;
__le16 fc;
bool limit_mgmt_desc = false;
ath10k_dbg(ar, ATH10K_DBG_HTT,
"htt tx completion msdu_id %u discard %d no_ack %d success %d\n",
@ -72,14 +75,21 @@ void ath10k_txrx_tx_unref(struct ath10k_htt *htt,
spin_unlock_bh(&htt->tx_lock);
return;
}
hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)msdu->data;
fc = hdr->frame_control;
if (unlikely(ieee80211_is_mgmt(fc)) &&
ar->hw_params.max_probe_resp_desc_thres)
limit_mgmt_desc = true;
ath10k_htt_tx_free_msdu_id(htt, tx_done->msdu_id);
__ath10k_htt_tx_dec_pending(htt);
__ath10k_htt_tx_dec_pending(htt, limit_mgmt_desc);
if (htt->num_pending_tx == 0)
wake_up(&htt->empty_tx_wq);
spin_unlock_bh(&htt->tx_lock);
skb_cb = ATH10K_SKB_CB(msdu);
dma_unmap_single(dev, skb_cb->paddr, msdu->len, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
if (skb_cb->htt.txbuf)