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>

1 files changed, 88 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
index de0ce809068a..5abc54d14d4d 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -126,6 +126,31 @@
  */
 
 /**
+ * DOC: 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.
+ *
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+/**
  * enum nl80211_commands - supported nl80211 commands
  *
  * @NL80211_CMD_UNSPEC: unspecified command to catch errors
@@ -648,6 +673,9 @@
  * @NL80211_CMD_CRIT_PROTOCOL_STOP: Indicates the connection reliability can
  *      return back to normal.
  *
+ * @NL80211_CMD_GET_COALESCE: Get currently supported coalesce rules.
+ * @NL80211_CMD_SET_COALESCE: Configure coalesce rules or clear existing rules.
+ *
  * @NL80211_CMD_MAX: highest used command number
  * @__NL80211_CMD_AFTER_LAST: internal use
  */
@@ -810,6 +838,9 @@ enum nl80211_commands {
         NL80211_CMD_CRIT_PROTOCOL_START,
         NL80211_CMD_CRIT_PROTOCOL_STOP,
 
+        NL80211_CMD_GET_COALESCE,
+        NL80211_CMD_SET_COALESCE,
+
         /* add new commands above here */
 
         /* used to define NL80211_CMD_MAX below */
@@ -1436,6 +1467,8 @@ enum nl80211_commands {
  *      allowed to be used with the first @NL80211_CMD_SET_STATION command to
  *      update a TDLS peer STA entry.
  *
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_COALESCE_RULE: Coalesce rule information.
+ *
  * @NL80211_ATTR_MAX: highest attribute number currently defined
  * @__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST: internal use
  */
@@ -1736,6 +1769,8 @@ enum nl80211_attrs {
 
         NL80211_ATTR_PEER_AID,
 
+        NL80211_ATTR_COALESCE_RULE,
+
         /* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */
 
         __NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST,
@@ -3098,8 +3133,10 @@ enum nl80211_packet_pattern_attr {
  * @max_pkt_offset: maximum Rx packet offset
  *
  * This struct is carried in %NL80211_WOWLAN_TRIG_PKT_PATTERN when
- * that is part of %NL80211_ATTR_WOWLAN_TRIGGERS_SUPPORTED in the
- * capability information given by the kernel to userspace.
+ * that is part of %NL80211_ATTR_WOWLAN_TRIGGERS_SUPPORTED or in
+ * %NL80211_ATTR_COALESCE_RULE_PKT_PATTERN when that is part of
+ * %NL80211_ATTR_COALESCE_RULE in the capability information given
+ * by the kernel to userspace.
  */
 struct nl80211_pattern_support {
         __u32 max_patterns;
@@ -3318,6 +3355,55 @@ enum nl80211_wowlan_tcp_attrs {
 };
 
 /**
+ * struct nl80211_coalesce_rule_support - coalesce rule support information
+ * @max_rules: maximum number of rules supported
+ * @pat: packet pattern support information
+ * @max_delay: maximum supported coalescing delay in msecs
+ *
+ * This struct is carried in %NL80211_ATTR_COALESCE_RULE in the
+ * capability information given by the kernel to userspace.
+ */
+struct nl80211_coalesce_rule_support {
+        __u32 max_rules;
+        struct nl80211_pattern_support pat;
+        __u32 max_delay;
+} __attribute__((packed));
+
+/**
+ * enum nl80211_attr_coalesce_rule - coalesce rule attribute
+ * @__NL80211_COALESCE_RULE_INVALID: invalid number for nested attribute
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_COALESCE_RULE_DELAY: delay in msecs used for packet coalescing
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_COALESCE_RULE_CONDITION: condition for packet coalescence,
+ *      see &enum nl80211_coalesce_condition.
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_COALESCE_RULE_PKT_PATTERN: packet offset, pattern is matched
+ *      after these fixed number of bytes of received packet
+ * @NUM_NL80211_ATTR_COALESCE_RULE: number of attributes
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_COALESCE_RULE_MAX: max attribute number
+ */
+enum nl80211_attr_coalesce_rule {
+        __NL80211_COALESCE_RULE_INVALID,
+        NL80211_ATTR_COALESCE_RULE_DELAY,
+        NL80211_ATTR_COALESCE_RULE_CONDITION,
+        NL80211_ATTR_COALESCE_RULE_PKT_PATTERN,
+
+        /* keep last */
+        NUM_NL80211_ATTR_COALESCE_RULE,
+        NL80211_ATTR_COALESCE_RULE_MAX = NUM_NL80211_ATTR_COALESCE_RULE - 1
+};
+
+/**
+ * enum nl80211_coalesce_condition - coalesce rule conditions
+ * @NL80211_COALESCE_CONDITION_MATCH: coalaesce Rx packets when patterns
+ *      in a rule are matched.
+ * @NL80211_COALESCE_CONDITION_NO_MATCH: coalesce Rx packets when patterns
+ *      in a rule are not matched.
+ */
+enum nl80211_coalesce_condition {
+        NL80211_COALESCE_CONDITION_MATCH,
+        NL80211_COALESCE_CONDITION_NO_MATCH
+};
+
+/**
  * enum nl80211_iface_limit_attrs - limit attributes
  * @NL80211_IFACE_LIMIT_UNSPEC: (reserved)
  * @NL80211_IFACE_LIMIT_MAX: maximum number of interfaces that