ath9k: fix powersave frame filtering/buffering in AP mode

This patch fixes a long standing issue of pending packets in the queue being
sent (and retransmitted many times) to sleeping stations.
This was made worse by aggregation through driver-internal retransmitting
of A-MDPU subframes.
Previously the hardware tx filter was cleared unconditionally for every
single packet - with this patch it uses the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_CLEAR_PS_FILT
for unaggregated frames.
A sta_notify driver op is added to stop aggregation for stations when they
enter powersave mode. Subframes stay buffered inside the driver, to ensure
that the BlockAck window keeps a sane state.
Since the driver uses software aggregation, the clearing of the tx filter
needs to be handled by the driver instead of mac80211 for aggregated frames.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.h
index 77ad407..a2ddabf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.h
@@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ struct ath_atx_ac {
 	int sched;
 	struct list_head list;
 	struct list_head tid_q;
+	bool clear_ps_filter;
 };
 
 struct ath_frame_info {
@@ -257,6 +258,8 @@ struct ath_node {
 	struct ath_atx_ac ac[WME_NUM_AC];
 	u16 maxampdu;
 	u8 mpdudensity;
+
+	bool sleeping;
 };
 
 #define AGGR_CLEANUP         BIT(1)
@@ -338,6 +341,9 @@ int ath_tx_aggr_start(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ieee80211_sta *sta,
 void ath_tx_aggr_stop(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ieee80211_sta *sta, u16 tid);
 void ath_tx_aggr_resume(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ieee80211_sta *sta, u16 tid);
 
+void ath_tx_aggr_wakeup(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_node *an);
+bool ath_tx_aggr_sleep(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_node *an);
+
 /********/
 /* VIFs */
 /********/