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authorFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>2014-02-11 10:02:47 -0500
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2014-02-12 05:26:43 -0500
commit1bf4bbb4024dcdab5e57634dd8ae1072d42a53ac (patch)
tree5b7c4ab3adb0ab44bc58068544e2ea0b3ef113cf /net
parentc368ddaa9ad79fdffde4756804321feba6725c75 (diff)
mac80211: send control port protocol frames to the VO queue
Improves reliability of wifi connections with WPA, since authentication frames are prioritized over normal traffic and also typically exempt from aggregation. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/wme.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/wme.c b/net/mac80211/wme.c
index 21211c60ca98..d51422c778de 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/wme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/wme.c
@@ -154,6 +154,11 @@ u16 ieee80211_select_queue(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
154 return IEEE80211_AC_BE; 154 return IEEE80211_AC_BE;
155 } 155 }
156 156
157 if (skb->protocol == sdata->control_port_protocol) {
158 skb->priority = 7;
159 return ieee80211_downgrade_queue(sdata, skb);
160 }
161
157 /* use the data classifier to determine what 802.1d tag the 162 /* use the data classifier to determine what 802.1d tag the
158 * data frame has */ 163 * data frame has */
159 rcu_read_lock(); 164 rcu_read_lock();