[PATCH] ieee80211: Return NETDEV_TX_BUSY when QoS buffer full

tree ba6509c7cd1dd4244a2f285f2da5d632e7ffbb25
parent 7b5f9f2ddcabdaea214527a895e6e8445cafdd80
author James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com> 1124447000 -0500
committer James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com> 1127313383 -0500

Per the conversations with folks at OLS, the QoS layer in 802.11
drivers can now result in NETDEV_TX_BUSY being returned when the queue
a packet is targetted for is full.

To implement this, ieee80211_xmit will now call the driver's
is_queue_full to determine if the current priority queue is full.  If
so, NETDEV_TX_BUSY is returned to the kernel and no processing is done
on the frame.

Signed-off-by: James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_tx.c b/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_tx.c
index 23a1f88de7cb..e9efdd42ba37 100644
--- a/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_tx.c
+++ b/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_tx.c
@@ -236,8 +236,12 @@ int ieee80211_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
         };
         u8 dest[ETH_ALEN], src[ETH_ALEN];
         struct ieee80211_crypt_data *crypt;
+        int priority = skb->priority;
         int snapped = 0;
 
+        if (ieee->is_queue_full && (*ieee->is_queue_full) (dev, priority))
+                return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
+
         spin_lock_irqsave(&ieee->lock, flags);
 
         /* If there is no driver handler to take the TXB, dont' bother
@@ -467,6 +471,14 @@ int ieee80211_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
                         stats->tx_bytes += txb->payload_size;
                         return 0;
                 }
+
+                if (ret == NETDEV_TX_BUSY) {
+                        printk(KERN_ERR "%s: NETDEV_TX_BUSY returned; "
+                               "driver should report queue full via "
+                               "ieee_device->is_queue_full.\n",
+                               ieee->dev->name);
+                }
+
                 ieee80211_txb_free(txb);
         }