mwifiex: add multi-queue support

This patch adds support for multiple TX queues inside mwifiex
driver. Four different queues according to WMM access categories
are defined for each virtual interface. When a packet is
received from netdev for transmission, tx pending count for
particular queue is incremented and if tx pending count has
reached upper water-mark, this queue is stopped instead of
stopping all queues. Similarly when a packet is successfully
transmitted from device, tx pending count is decremented per
queue and if pending count falls below lower water-mark, queue
operations are again resumed. This ensures that not all
tranmission is blocked if traffic with particular TOS value
suddenly increases.

Also wake all queues after association/IBSS_join/uAP_BSS_start
to enable traffic on all queues.

Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/uap_event.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/uap_event.c
index a33fa39..21c640d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/uap_event.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/uap_event.c
@@ -235,11 +235,18 @@ int mwifiex_process_uap_event(struct mwifiex_private *priv)
 		break;
 	case EVENT_UAP_BSS_IDLE:
 		priv->media_connected = false;
+		if (netif_carrier_ok(priv->netdev))
+			netif_carrier_off(priv->netdev);
+		mwifiex_stop_net_dev_queue(priv->netdev, adapter);
+
 		mwifiex_clean_txrx(priv);
 		mwifiex_del_all_sta_list(priv);
 		break;
 	case EVENT_UAP_BSS_ACTIVE:
 		priv->media_connected = true;
+		if (!netif_carrier_ok(priv->netdev))
+			netif_carrier_on(priv->netdev);
+		mwifiex_wake_up_net_dev_queue(priv->netdev, adapter);
 		break;
 	case EVENT_UAP_BSS_START:
 		dev_dbg(adapter->dev, "AP EVENT: event id: %#x\n", eventcause);