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author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2016-03-31 20:02:10 +0300 |
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committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2016-04-06 13:18:18 +0200 |
commit | 49ddf8e6e2347cffdcf83d1ca2d04ff929820178 (patch) | |
tree | 93ae97699c3abf8d47a1c4571dfdfb466c955df6 /net/mac80211/key.c | |
parent | 0f9c5a61d4b2330b12c59126aa5a9108dbfce555 (diff) | |
download | lwn-49ddf8e6e2347cffdcf83d1ca2d04ff929820178.tar.gz lwn-49ddf8e6e2347cffdcf83d1ca2d04ff929820178.zip |
mac80211: add fast-rx path
The regular RX path has a lot of code, but with a few
assumptions on the hardware it's possible to reduce the
amount of code significantly. Currently the assumptions
on the driver are the following:
* hardware/driver reordering buffer (if supporting aggregation)
* hardware/driver decryption & PN checking (if using encryption)
* hardware/driver did de-duplication
* hardware/driver did A-MSDU deaggregation
* AP_LINK_PS is used (in AP mode)
* no client powersave handling in mac80211 (in client mode)
of which some are actually checked per packet:
* de-duplication
* PN checking
* decryption
and additionally packets must
* not be A-MSDU (have been deaggregated by driver/device)
* be data packets
* not be fragmented
* be unicast
* have RFC 1042 header
Additionally dynamically we assume:
* no encryption or CCMP/GCMP, TKIP/WEP/other not allowed
* station must be authorized
* 4-addr format not enabled
Some data needed for the RX path is cached in a new per-station
"fast_rx" structure, so that we only need to look at this and
the packet, no other memory when processing packets on the fast
RX path.
After doing the above per-packet checks, the data path collapses
down to a pretty simple conversion function taking advantage of
the data cached in the small fast_rx struct.
This should speed up the RX processing, and will make it easier
to reason about parallelizing RX (for which statistics will need
to be per-CPU still.)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/key.c')
-rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/key.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/key.c b/net/mac80211/key.c index 3df7b0392d30..edd6f2945f69 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/key.c +++ b/net/mac80211/key.c @@ -338,6 +338,7 @@ static void ieee80211_key_replace(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, } else { rcu_assign_pointer(sta->gtk[idx], new); } + ieee80211_check_fast_rx(sta); } else { defunikey = old && old == key_mtx_dereference(sdata->local, |