EDMA based chips (AR9380+) have 8 Tx FIFO slots, which are used to fix the
tx queue start/stop race conditions which have to be worked around for
earlier chips by keeping the last descriptor in the queue. The current code
stores all frames that do not fit onto the 8 FIFO slots in a separate
list. Whenever a FIFO slot is freed up, the next frame (or A-MPDU) from the
pending queue gets moved to that slot.
This process is not only inefficient, but also unnecessary. The code can
be improved visibly by keeping the pending queue fully linked, and moving
the contents of the entire queue to a FIFO slot as it becomes available.
This patch makes the necessary changes for that and also merges some code
that was duplicated for EDMA vs non-EDMA. It changes txq->axq_link to point
to the last descriptor instead of the link pointer, so that
ath9k_hw_set_desc_link can be used, which works on all chips.
With this patch, a small performance increase for non-aggregated traffic
was observed on AR9380 based embedded hardware.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Only leave filtering enabled for AP or VLAN interfaces, clear the
destination mask for all other interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
when aggregation protection mode is enabled the hardware needs
to send RTS/CTS for each HT frame. Currently its disabled so
remove the unused call backs.
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There is no reason why pll work handler should be part of xmit
file. move it to main.c so that reading hw check routines are
all in the same place.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Frame filtering relies on having a valid destination index (keycache slot),
to keep track of the destination. Assigning a keycache slot (configured
to unencrypted, with no key data attached) improves powersave handling in
AP mode with no encryption.
The dummy keycache entry for a station is cleared, when a real key gets
added.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes a long standing issue of pending packets in the queue being
sent (and retransmitted many times) to sleeping stations.
This was made worse by aggregation through driver-internal retransmitting
of A-MDPU subframes.
Previously the hardware tx filter was cleared unconditionally for every
single packet - with this patch it uses the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_CLEAR_PS_FILT
for unaggregated frames.
A sta_notify driver op is added to stop aggregation for stations when they
enter powersave mode. Subframes stay buffered inside the driver, to ensure
that the BlockAck window keeps a sane state.
Since the driver uses software aggregation, the clearing of the tx filter
needs to be handled by the driver instead of mac80211 for aggregated frames.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It has the same purpose (and value) as ah->config.max_txtrig_level
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This workaround called ath_txq_schedule whenever there were still pending
frames for a queue, but the queue depth was zero. Because of its its high
false positive probability (e.g. with paused TIDs) and because it is in
the way of other pending work (AP powersave fixes), it is better to remove
this code entirely.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some clients seems to keep track of their reorder window even after an
aggregation session has been disabled. This causes issues if there are
still retried but not completed frames pending for the TID.
To ensure that rx does not stall in such situations, set sendbar to 1
for any frame purged from the TID queue on teardown.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch simplifies the flush op and reuses ath_drain_all_txq for
flushing out pending frames if necessary. It also uses a global timeout
of 200ms instead of the per-queue 60ms timeout.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In some situations, stopping Tx DMA frequently fails, leading to messages
like this:
ath: Failed to stop TX DMA in 100 msec after killing last frame
ath: Failed to stop TX DMA!
This patch uses a few MAC features to abort DMA globally instead of iterating
over all hardware queues and attempting to stop them individually.
Not only is that faster and works with a shorter timeout, it also makes the
process much more reliable.
With this change, I can no longer trigger these messages on AR9380,
and on AR9280 they become much more rare.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When op_flush() is called with no drop (drop=false), the driver
tries to tx as many frames as possible in about 100ms on every
hw queue. During this time period frames from sw queue are also
scheduled on to respective hw queue.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The variable appears in both ath_softc and ath_beacon_config.
The struct ath_beacon_config is embedded in ath_softc. The redundant
variable was added by commit id 57c4d7b4c4.
Signed-off-by: Steve Brown <sbrown@cortland.com>
Reviewed-by: Mohammed Shafi <shafi.ath9k@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Spin_lock has been tried to be acquired twice from ath9k_tasklet
to ath_reset which resulted in a machine freeze.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When this PLL hang issue is seen, both Rx and Tx fail to work.
The sqsum_dvc needs to be below 2000 for a good chip. During
this issue the sqsum_dvc value is beyond 80000 and only a
full reset can solve this problem.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Various places printing tx queue information used various different ways to
get a tx queue index for printing statistics. Most of these ways were wrong.
ATH_TXQ_AC_* cannot be used as an index for sc->tx.txq, because it is only
used internally for queue assignment.
One place used WME_AC_* as a queue index for sc->debug.stats.txstats, however
this array uses the ath9k_hw queue number as well.
Fix all of this by always using the ath9k_hw queue number as an index, and
always looking it up by going through sc->tx.txq_map.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Instead of spreading ath_wake_mac80211_queue() calls over multiple places
in the tx path that process the tx queue for completion, call it only
where the pending frames counter gets decremented, eliminating some
redundant checks.
To prevent queue draining from waking the queues prematurely (e.g. during
a hardware reset), reset the queue stop state when draining all queues,
as the caller in main.c will run ieee80211_wake_queues(hw) anyway.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The commit 'ath9k: Add more information to debugfs xmit file.' added more
debug counters to ath9k and also added some lines of code to ath9k_hw.
Since ath9k_hw is also used by ath9k_htc, its code must not depend on ath9k
data structures. In this case it was not fatal, but it's still wrong, so
the code needs to be moved back to ath9k.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove unused macros and cleanup buffer_type enumeration
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Try all xmit queues until the hardware buffers are full.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The system can get into a state where the xmit queue
is stopped, but there are no packets pending, so
the queue will not be restarted.
Add logic to the xmit watchdog to attempt to restart
the xmit logic if this situation is detected.
Example 'dmesg' output:
ath: txq: f4e723e0 axq_qnum: 2, mac80211_qnum: 2 axq_link: f4e996c8 pending frames: 1 axq_acq empty: 1 stopped: 0 axq_depth: 0 Attempting to restart tx logic.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Show counters for pkts sent directly to hardware and
those queued in software.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If the txq->axq_q is empty, the code was breaking out
of the tx_processq logic without checking to see if it should
transmit other queued AMPDU frames (txq->axq_acq).
This patches ensures ath_txq_schedule is called.
This needs review.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Should help debug strange tx lockup type issues.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There are several places where ath_reset() was called without proper
calls to ath9k_ps_wakeup/ath9k_ps_restore. To fix this, add those calls
directly to ath_reset and drop them from callers where it makes sense.
Also add them to the config callback around ath_update_txpow to fix a
crash that happens when the tx power changed before any vif is brought up.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Because the sendbar variable was not reset to zero, the stack would send
Block ACK requests for all subframes following the one that failed, which
could mess up the receiver side block ack window.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sometimes the first TID in the first AC's list is not available for forming
a new aggregate (the BAW might not allow it), however other TIDs may have
data available for sending.
Prevent a slowdown of other TIDs by going through multiple entries until
we've either hit the last one or enough AMPDUs are pending in the hardware
queue.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There might be some old stale data left, which could confuse tracking
of pending tx frames.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
txtid->seq_start may not always be up to date, when there is HT non-AMPDU
traffic just before starting an AMPDU session. Relying on txtid->seq_next
is better, since it is also used to generate the sequence numbers for
all QoS data frames.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When a tid pointer is passed to ath_tx_send_normal(), it increases the
starting sequence number for the next AMPDU action frame, which should
only be done if the sequence number assignment is fresh. In this case
it is clearly not.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To improve aggregation length, there should not be more than two fully formed
A-MPDU frames in the hardware queue. To ensure this, the code checks the tx
queue length before forming new A-MPDUs. This can reduce the throughput (or
maybe even starve out A-MPDU traffic) when too many non-aggregated frames are
in the queue.
Fix this by keeping track of pending A-MPDU frames (even when they're sent out
as single frames), but exclude rate control probing frames to improve
performance.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
wireless-testing commit 04caf86375
('ath9k: more tx setup cleanups') merged tx path code for HT vs
non-HT frames, however it did not pass the tid pointer to
ath_tx_send_normal, causing an inconsistency between AMPDU vs
non-AMPDU sequence number handling.
Fix this by always passing in the tid pointer for all QoS data frames.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It can be NULL according to docs, and logging showed it
to be NULL in practice.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove ath/debug.h and the includes of these files.
Coalesce long formats.
Correct a few misspellings and missing "\n"s from these logging messages.
Remove unnecessary trailing space before a newline.
Remove ARRAY_SIZE casts, use printf type %zu
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
So these errors are always emitted at KERN_ERR level.
Remove ARRAY_SIZE casts, use printf type %zu
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Felix Fietkau