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mac80211: dynamic PS - don't enter PS when TX frames are pending
authorArik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Sun, 26 Jun 2011 09:06:54 +0000 (12:06 +0300)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:09:42 +0000 (15:09 -0400)
commitef643c6960338c6a7b6d1d4281d17e903ca8ba30
tree95816e9126dac6a5e0ebb999066bb4f781138b36
parentf1ec89bd3964811628cbdf901ec01b1565753fcb
mac80211: dynamic PS - don't enter PS when TX frames are pending

Use the tx_frames_pending() driver callback to determine if Tx frames are
pending for its internal queues. If so postpone the dynamic PS timeout
to avoid interrupting Tx traffic.

The commit ff71bee1502a531189f8746ca74c0de0ea06f06f enabled this
behavior for drivers with IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK. We enable this
for all drivers supporting dynamic PS.

This patch helps improve performance in noisy environments.

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
net/mac80211/mlme.c