[0/6] wireless: Per-sta NoAck and offload support

Message

Tamizh chelvam Oct. 16, 2018, 6:41 p.m. UTC

Adds infrastructure for driver to offload NoAck functionality,
driver like ath10k could make use of it. Also extends the
current ndev wide NoAck policy to per-station, with sta level
NoAck policy configuration userspace could selectively turn off/on
Noack based on various connection parameters of the station.

Tamizh chelvam (2):
  ath10k: Add wmi command support for station specific TID config
  ath10k: Add support for station specific noack TID policy

Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan (4):
  mac80211: Add NoAck policy functionality offload infrastructure
  nl80211/mac80211: Extend NoAck policy command with peer MAC address
  mac80211: Apply per-peer NoAck tid bitmap configuration
  mac80211: Advertise per-peer NoAck policy support

 include/net/cfg80211.h       |   12 +++++++++--
 include/net/mac80211.h       |   13 ++++++++++++
 include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h |   16 +++++++++++++-
 net/mac80211/cfg.c           |   48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 net/mac80211/driver-ops.h    |   22 +++++++++++++++++++
 net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h   |    2 +-
 net/mac80211/iface.c         |    4 ++++
 net/mac80211/main.c          |    4 ++++
 net/mac80211/sta_info.c      |    2 ++
 net/mac80211/sta_info.h      |    3 +++
 net/mac80211/trace.h         |   25 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 net/mac80211/tx.c            |    4 +++-
 net/mac80211/wme.c           |   35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 net/wireless/nl80211.c       |   22 ++++++++++++++-----
 net/wireless/rdev-ops.h      |    7 +++---
 net/wireless/trace.h         |   15 +++++++------
 16 files changed, 210 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

Comments

Johannes Berg Nov. 9, 2018, 11:28 a.m. UTC | #1

Hi,

> Adds infrastructure for driver to offload NoAck functionality,
> driver like ath10k could make use of it. Also extends the
> current ndev wide NoAck policy to per-station, with sta level
> NoAck policy configuration userspace could selectively turn off/on
> Noack based on various connection parameters of the station.

So ... we have this, but we also have

[PATCH 0/4] cfg80211/mac80211: Add support for TID specific configuration

which you were involved in.

Unless you can cite a good reason not to, I think it would make sense to
combine the two and make "noack" just another attribute in the TID
configuration.

johannes