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]>
mt76 hw does not send beacons from beacon slots, if the corresponding
bitmask is set accordingly. Therefore we can omit clearing the beacon
memory. Clearing uses many usb calls, if usb drivers are used. These
calls unnecessarily slow down the beacon tasklet. Thanks to Stanislaw
Gruzska for pointing this out.
Signed-off-by: Markus Theil <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <[email protected]>
Before this patch, mt76 handled rx traffic for all TIDs equally,
when released from reorder buffer early. This patch uses an AC specific
reorder timeout, in order to release partial aggregated frames for video
ACs earlier. Voice ACs are currently not aggregated (thanks to Felix for
this hint). For example, ath10k also uses AC specific reorder timeouts
(reported by firmware in that case).
Signed-off-by: Markus Theil <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <[email protected]>
