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[v2] mac80211: notify driver for change in multicast rates

Message ID 1521676490-25366-1-git-send-email-pradeepc@codeaurora.org (mailing list archive)
State Changes Requested
Delegated to: Johannes Berg
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Commit Message

Pradeep Kumar Chitrapu March 21, 2018, 11:54 p.m. UTC 
It is required to pass the rate information to driver/firmware
when rate control is offloaded to firmware. This helps in changing
multicast traffic rates thereby improving the network performance.

Signed-off-by: Pradeep Kumar Chitrapu <pradeepc@codeaurora.org>
---
V2:
  - Set the flag in missing places

 include/net/mac80211.h | 1 +
 net/mac80211/cfg.c     | 2 ++
 net/mac80211/ibss.c    | 2 +-
 net/mac80211/mesh.c    | 3 ++-
 net/mac80211/util.c    | 3 ++-
 5 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Johannes Berg March 22, 2018, 10:42 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Wed, 2018-03-21 at 16:54 -0700, Pradeep Kumar Chitrapu wrote:
> 
> index 4c99c13..4360765 100644
> --- a/include/net/mac80211.h
> +++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
> @@ -336,6 +336,7 @@ enum ieee80211_bss_change {
>  	BSS_CHANGED_OCB                 = 1<<22,
>  	BSS_CHANGED_MU_GROUPS		= 1<<23,
>  	BSS_CHANGED_KEEP_ALIVE		= 1<<24,
> +	BSS_CHANGED_MCAST_RATE		= 1<<25,

Not sure why I missed this before, but you need to add documentation
for this.

johannes
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diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 4c99c13..4360765 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -336,6 +336,7 @@  enum ieee80211_bss_change {
 	BSS_CHANGED_OCB                 = 1<<22,
 	BSS_CHANGED_MU_GROUPS		= 1<<23,
 	BSS_CHANGED_KEEP_ALIVE		= 1<<24,
+	BSS_CHANGED_MCAST_RATE		= 1<<25,
 
 	/* when adding here, make sure to change ieee80211_reconfig */
 };
diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
index 0763792..22bb82e 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -2313,6 +2313,8 @@  static int ieee80211_set_mcast_rate(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
 	memcpy(sdata->vif.bss_conf.mcast_rate, rate,
 	       sizeof(int) * NUM_NL80211_BANDS);
 
+	ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify(sdata, BSS_CHANGED_MCAST_RATE);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/net/mac80211/ibss.c b/net/mac80211/ibss.c
index e9c6aa3..f4b0634 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ibss.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/ibss.c
@@ -1840,7 +1840,7 @@  int ieee80211_ibss_join(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
 		  IEEE80211_HT_OP_MODE_PROTECTION_NONHT_MIXED
 		| IEEE80211_HT_PARAM_RIFS_MODE;
 
-	changed |= BSS_CHANGED_HT;
+	changed |= BSS_CHANGED_HT | BSS_CHANGED_MCAST_RATE;
 	ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify(sdata, changed);
 
 	sdata->smps_mode = IEEE80211_SMPS_OFF;
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh.c b/net/mac80211/mesh.c
index 277398d..55c04e1 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh.c
@@ -884,7 +884,8 @@  int ieee80211_start_mesh(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
 		      BSS_CHANGED_BEACON_ENABLED |
 		      BSS_CHANGED_HT |
 		      BSS_CHANGED_BASIC_RATES |
-		      BSS_CHANGED_BEACON_INT;
+		      BSS_CHANGED_BEACON_INT |
+		      BSS_CHANGED_MCAST_RATE;
 
 	local->fif_other_bss++;
 	/* mesh ifaces must set allmulti to forward mcast traffic */
diff --git a/net/mac80211/util.c b/net/mac80211/util.c
index 6aef679..6594df0 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/util.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/util.c
@@ -1971,7 +1971,8 @@  int ieee80211_reconfig(struct ieee80211_local *local)
 			  BSS_CHANGED_CQM |
 			  BSS_CHANGED_QOS |
 			  BSS_CHANGED_IDLE |
-			  BSS_CHANGED_TXPOWER;
+			  BSS_CHANGED_TXPOWER |
+			  BSS_CHANGED_MCAST_RATE;
 
 		if (sdata->vif.mu_mimo_owner)
 			changed |= BSS_CHANGED_MU_GROUPS;