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Commit 18667600 authored by Toke Høiland-Jørgensen's avatar Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Committed by Johannes Berg
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mac80211: Add TXQ scheduling API



This adds an API to mac80211 to handle scheduling of TXQs. The interface
between driver and mac80211 for TXQ handling is changed by adding two new
functions: ieee80211_next_txq(), which will return the next TXQ to schedule
in the current round-robin rotation, and ieee80211_return_txq(), which the
driver uses to indicate that it has finished scheduling a TXQ (which will
then be put back in the scheduling rotation if it isn't empty).

The driver must call ieee80211_txq_schedule_start() at the start of each
scheduling session, and ieee80211_txq_schedule_end() at the end. The API
then guarantees that the same TXQ is not returned twice in the same
session (so a driver can loop on ieee80211_next_txq() without worrying
about breaking the loop.

Usage of the new API is optional, so drivers can be ported one at a time.
In this patch, the actual scheduling performed by mac80211 is simple
round-robin, but a subsequent commit adds airtime fairness awareness to the
scheduler.

Signed-off-by: default avatarToke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
[minor kernel-doc fix, propagate sparse locking checks out]
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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