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mac80211: enable spatial multiplexing powersave

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Enable spatial multiplexing in mac80211 by telling the
driver what to do and, where necessary, sending action
frames to the AP to update the requested SMPS mode.

Also includes a trivial implementation for hwsim that
just logs the requested mode.

For now, the userspace interface is in debugfs only,
and let you toggle the requested mode at any time.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Berg
2009-12-01 13:37:02 +01:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent 18974b5b0b
commit 0f78231bff
12 changed files with 517 additions and 11 deletions
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net/mac80211/status.c
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@@ -134,6 +134,40 @@ static void ieee80211_handle_filtered_frame(struct ieee80211_local *local,
dev_kfree_skb(skb);
}
static void ieee80211_frame_acked(struct sta_info *sta, struct sk_buff *skb)
{
struct ieee80211_mgmt *mgmt = (void *) skb->data;
struct ieee80211_local *local = sta->local;
struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = sta->sdata;
if (ieee80211_is_action(mgmt->frame_control) &&
sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION &&
mgmt->u.action.category == WLAN_CATEGORY_HT &&
mgmt->u.action.u.ht_smps.action == WLAN_HT_ACTION_SMPS) {
/*
* This update looks racy, but isn't -- if we come
* here we've definitely got a station that we're
* talking to, and on a managed interface that can
* only be the AP. And the only other place updating
* this variable is before we're associated.
*/
switch (mgmt->u.action.u.ht_smps.smps_control) {
case WLAN_HT_SMPS_CONTROL_DYNAMIC:
sta->sdata->u.mgd.ap_smps = IEEE80211_SMPS_DYNAMIC;
break;
case WLAN_HT_SMPS_CONTROL_STATIC:
sta->sdata->u.mgd.ap_smps = IEEE80211_SMPS_STATIC;
break;
case WLAN_HT_SMPS_CONTROL_DISABLED:
default: /* shouldn't happen since we don't send that */
sta->sdata->u.mgd.ap_smps = IEEE80211_SMPS_OFF;
break;
}
ieee80211_queue_work(&local->hw, &local->recalc_smps);
}
}
void ieee80211_tx_status(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
{
struct sk_buff *skb2;
@@ -210,6 +244,10 @@ void ieee80211_tx_status(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
rate_control_tx_status(local, sband, sta, skb);
if (ieee80211_vif_is_mesh(&sta->sdata->vif))
ieee80211s_update_metric(local, sta, skb);
if (!(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_INJECTED) &&
(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK))
ieee80211_frame_acked(sta, skb);
}
rcu_read_unlock();