mt76: mt76x02: split beaconing

Sending beacons to the hardware always happens in batches. In order to
speed up beacon processing on usb devices, this patch splits out common
code an calls it only once.

Beacons are sequentially written into the beacon memory area, by
tracking its usage with the dev->beacon_data_count. For MBSS support
and buffered traffic dev->beacon_data_count is used to create the bypass
mask.

The code is also adapted for the mmio part of the driver, but should not
have any performance implication there.

MBSS tests were performed with AVM AC860 USB NIC with temporary support
for 5 BSS'. Different combinations of active vifs were created and
brought up. Afterwards connection and data transfer was tested for the
announced BSS'.

Signed-off-by: Markus Theil <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <[email protected]>
This commit is contained in:
Markus Theil
2019-12-22 15:17:42 +01:00
committed by Felix Fietkau
parent 85a8abf803
commit 8b5d3615e1
6 changed files with 31 additions and 68 deletions
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@@ -741,6 +741,8 @@ void mt76x02_mac_setaddr(struct mt76x02_dev *dev, const u8 *addr)
get_unaligned_le16(dev->mt76.macaddr + 4) |
FIELD_PREP(MT_MAC_BSSID_DW1_MBSS_MODE, 3) | /* 8 APs + 8 STAs */
MT_MAC_BSSID_DW1_MBSS_LOCAL_BIT);
/* enable 7 additional beacon slots and control them with bypass mask */
mt76_rmw_field(dev, MT_MAC_BSSID_DW1, MT_MAC_BSSID_DW1_MBEACON_N, 7);
for (i = 0; i < 16; i++)
mt76x02_mac_set_bssid(dev, i, null_addr);