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cfg80211/nl80211: Add packet coalesce support
authorAmitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Fri, 28 Jun 2013 18:51:26 +0000 (11:51 -0700)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Tue, 16 Jul 2013 06:58:00 +0000 (09:58 +0300)
commit07e4f662e7ddc5c75e3d11d6e2e5205edff50c67
treeabd4b2831ca396dddda2ea8bb02a39b12ea2a1b4
parent28a2227bad8e8c7b55fb32466a24739b1de20272
cfg80211/nl80211: Add packet coalesce support

In most cases, host that receives IPv4 and IPv6 multicast/broadcast
packets does not do anything with these packets. Therefore the
reception of these unwanted packets causes unnecessary processing
and power consumption.

Packet coalesce feature helps to reduce number of received
interrupts to host by buffering these packets in firmware/hardware
for some predefined time. Received interrupt will be generated when
one of the following events occur.
a) Expiration of hardware timer whose expiration time is set to
maximum coalescing delay of matching coalesce rule.
b) Coalescing buffer in hardware reaches it's limit.
c) Packet doesn't match any of the configured coalesce rules.

This patch adds set/get configuration support for packet coalesce.
User needs to configure following parameters for creating a coalesce
rule.
a) Maximum coalescing delay
b) List of packet patterns which needs to be matched
c) Condition for coalescence. pattern 'match' or 'no match'
Multiple such rules can be created.

This feature needs to be advertised during driver initialization.
Drivers are supposed to do required firmware/hardware settings based
on user configuration.

Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
[fix kernel-doc, change free function, fix copy/paste error]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
include/net/cfg80211.h
include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
net/wireless/core.c
net/wireless/core.h
net/wireless/nl80211.c
net/wireless/nl80211.h