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mac80211: Fix regression in mesh forwarding path.

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The removal of the master netdev broke the mesh forwarding path.  This patch
fixes it by using the new internal 'pending' queue.

As a result of this change, mesh forwarding no longer does the inefficient
802.11 -> 802.3 -> 802.11 conversion that was done before.

[Changes since v1]
Suggested by Johannes:
 - Select queue before adding to mpath queue
 - ieee80211_add_pending_skb -> ieee80211_add_pending_skbs
 - Remove unnecessary header wme.h

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Javier Cardona
2009-07-07 10:55:03 -07:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent 3d34deb673
commit 249b405cf8
4 changed files with 20 additions and 11 deletions
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net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c
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@@ -784,7 +784,6 @@ int mesh_nexthop_lookup(struct sk_buff *skb,
mesh_path_add(dst_addr, sdata);
mpath = mesh_path_lookup(dst_addr, sdata);
if (!mpath) {
dev_kfree_skb(skb);
sdata->u.mesh.mshstats.dropped_frames_no_route++;
err = -ENOSPC;
goto endlookup;
@@ -804,6 +803,7 @@ int mesh_nexthop_lookup(struct sk_buff *skb,
memcpy(hdr->addr1, mpath->next_hop->sta.addr,
ETH_ALEN);
} else {
struct ieee80211_tx_info *info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb);
if (!(mpath->flags & MESH_PATH_RESOLVING)) {
/* Start discovery only if it is not running yet */
mesh_queue_preq(mpath, PREQ_Q_F_START);
@@ -815,6 +815,7 @@ int mesh_nexthop_lookup(struct sk_buff *skb,
skb_unlink(skb_to_free, &mpath->frame_queue);
}
info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_NEED_TXPROCESSING;
skb_queue_tail(&mpath->frame_queue, skb);
if (skb_to_free)
mesh_path_discard_frame(skb_to_free, sdata);