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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2013-02-23 00:59:03 +0100
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2013-03-06 16:36:00 +0100
commit8d1f7ecd2af55c0c82ffd2bff0ef0b26f16ea69f (patch)
tree51e4fe05518ea5cb51f938c4e9aa756115c7c949 /net/mac80211/key.h
parenta87121051ce80831a302c67286119013104f7a5a (diff)
downloadlinux-8d1f7ecd2af55c0c82ffd2bff0ef0b26f16ea69f.tar.bz2
mac80211: defer tailroom counter manipulation when roaming
During roaming, the crypto_tx_tailroom_needed_cnt counter will often take values 2,1,0,1,2 because first keys are removed and then new keys are added. This is inefficient because during the 0->1 transition, synchronize_net must be called to avoid packet races, although typically no packets would be flowing during that time. To avoid that, defer the decrement (2->1, 1->0) when keys are removed (by half a second). This means the counter will really have the values 2,2,2,3,4 ... 2, thus never reaching 0 and having to do the 0->1 transition. Note that this patch entirely disregards the drivers for which this optimisation was done to start with, for them the key removal itself will be expensive because it has to synchronize_net() after the counter is incremented to remove the key from HW crypto. For them the sequence will look like this: 0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0 (*) which is clearly a lot more inefficient. This could be addressed separately, during key removal the 0->1->0 sequence isn't necessary. (*) it starts at 0 because HW crypto is on, then goes to 1 when HW crypto is disabled for a key, then back to 0 because the key is deleted; this happens for both keys in the example. When new keys are added, it goes to 1 first because they're added in software; when a key is moved to hardware it goes back to 0 Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/key.h')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/key.h4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/key.h b/net/mac80211/key.h
index 8b037307a586..2a682d81cee9 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/key.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/key.h
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ struct ieee80211_key *ieee80211_key_alloc(u32 cipher, int idx, size_t key_len,
int __must_check ieee80211_key_link(struct ieee80211_key *key,
struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
struct sta_info *sta);
-void __ieee80211_key_free(struct ieee80211_key *key);
+void __ieee80211_key_free(struct ieee80211_key *key, bool delay_tailroom);
void ieee80211_key_free(struct ieee80211_local *local,
struct ieee80211_key *key);
void ieee80211_set_default_key(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, int idx,
@@ -147,4 +147,6 @@ void ieee80211_enable_keys(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata);
#define key_mtx_dereference(local, ref) \
rcu_dereference_protected(ref, lockdep_is_held(&((local)->key_mtx)))
+void ieee80211_delayed_tailroom_dec(struct work_struct *wk);
+
#endif /* IEEE80211_KEY_H */