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Commit 054281b3 authored by Johannes Berg's avatar Johannes Berg Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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iwlwifi: mvm: synchronize with FW after multicast commands

[ Upstream commit db66abeea3aefed481391ecc564fb7b7fb31d742 ]

If userspace installs a lot of multicast groups very quickly, then
we may run out of command queue space as we send the updates in an
asynchronous fashion (due to locking concerns), and the CPU can
create them faster than the firmware can process them. This is true
even when mac80211 has a work struct that gets scheduled.

Fix this by synchronizing with the firmware after sending all those
commands - outside of the iteration we can send a synchronous echo
command that just has the effect of the CPU waiting for the prior
asynchronous commands to finish. This also will cause fewer of the
commands to be sent to the firmware overall, because the work will
only run once when rescheduled multiple times while it's running.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213649


Suggested-by: default avatarEmmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Reported-by: default avatarMaximilian Ernestus <maximilian@ernestus.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLuca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/iwlwifi.20211204083238.51aea5b79ea4.I88a44798efda16e9fe480fb3e94224931d311b29@changeid


Signed-off-by: default avatarLuca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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