Commit 2c0aa2a5 authored Sep 21, 2005 by James Ketrenos Committed by Jeff Garzik Sep 21, 2005

[PATCH] ieee80211: Return NETDEV_TX_BUSY when QoS buffer full



tree ba6509c7cd1dd4244a2f285f2da5d632e7ffbb25
parent 7b5f9f2ddcabdaea214527a895e6e8445cafdd80
author James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com> 1124447000 -0500
committer James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com> 1127313383 -0500

Per the conversations with folks at OLS, the QoS layer in 802.11
drivers can now result in NETDEV_TX_BUSY being returned when the queue
a packet is targetted for is full.

To implement this, ieee80211_xmit will now call the driver's
is_queue_full to determine if the current priority queue is full.  If
so, NETDEV_TX_BUSY is returned to the kernel and no processing is done
on the frame.

Signed-off-by: James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>

parent 1264fc04

net/ieee80211/ieee80211_tx.c

+12 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -236,8 +236,12 @@ int ieee80211_xmit(struct sk_buff skb, struct net_device dev)
		};
		u8 dest[ETH_ALEN], src[ETH_ALEN];
		struct ieee80211_crypt_data *crypt;
		int priority = skb->priority;
		int snapped = 0;

		if (ieee->is_queue_full && (*ieee->is_queue_full) (dev, priority))
		return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;

		spin_lock_irqsave(&ieee->lock, flags);

		/* If there is no driver handler to take the TXB, dont' bother
		@@ -467,6 +471,14 @@ int ieee80211_xmit(struct sk_buff skb, struct net_device dev)
		stats->tx_bytes += txb->payload_size;
		return 0;
		}

		if (ret == NETDEV_TX_BUSY) {
		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: NETDEV_TX_BUSY returned; "
		"driver should report queue full via "
		"ieee_device->is_queue_full.\n",
		ieee->dev->name);
		}

		ieee80211_txb_free(txb);
		}