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-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c31
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c
index 93fe1bd91c36..63ee8cfe322b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c
@@ -1818,6 +1818,7 @@ mwl8k_txq_xmit(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, int index, struct sk_buff *skb)
u8 tid = 0;
struct mwl8k_ampdu_stream *stream = NULL;
bool start_ba_session = false;
+ bool mgmtframe = false;
struct ieee80211_mgmt *mgmt = (struct ieee80211_mgmt *)skb->data;
wh = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)skb->data;
@@ -1826,6 +1827,9 @@ mwl8k_txq_xmit(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, int index, struct sk_buff *skb)
else
qos = 0;
+ if (ieee80211_is_mgmt(wh->frame_control))
+ mgmtframe = true;
+
if (priv->ap_fw)
mwl8k_encapsulate_tx_frame(skb);
else
@@ -1955,15 +1959,26 @@ mwl8k_txq_xmit(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, int index, struct sk_buff *skb)
txq = priv->txq + index;
- if (txq->len >= MWL8K_TX_DESCS) {
- if (start_ba_session) {
- spin_lock(&priv->stream_lock);
- mwl8k_remove_stream(hw, stream);
- spin_unlock(&priv->stream_lock);
+ /* Mgmt frames that go out frequently are probe
+ * responses. Other mgmt frames got out relatively
+ * infrequently. Hence reserve 2 buffers so that
+ * other mgmt frames do not get dropped due to an
+ * already queued probe response in one of the
+ * reserved buffers.
+ */
+
+ if (txq->len >= MWL8K_TX_DESCS - 2) {
+ if (mgmtframe == false ||
+ txq->len == MWL8K_TX_DESCS) {
+ if (start_ba_session) {
+ spin_lock(&priv->stream_lock);
+ mwl8k_remove_stream(hw, stream);
+ spin_unlock(&priv->stream_lock);
+ }
+ spin_unlock_bh(&priv->tx_lock);
+ dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+ return;
}
- spin_unlock_bh(&priv->tx_lock);
- dev_kfree_skb(skb);
- return;
}
BUG_ON(txq->skb[txq->tail] != NULL);