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mac80211: add U-APSD client support

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Add Unscheduled Automatic Power-Save Delivery (U-APSD) client support. The
idea is that the data frames from the client trigger AP to send the buffered
frames with ACs which have U-APSD enabled. This decreases latency and makes it
possible to save even more power.

Driver needs to use IEEE80211_HW_UAPSD to enable the feature. The current
implementation assumes that firmware takes care of the wakeup and
hardware needing IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK is not yet supported.

Tested with wl1251 on a Nokia N900 and Cisco Aironet 1231G AP and running
various test traffic with ping.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Kalle Valo 2010-01-12 10:42:31 +02:00 • committed by John W. Linville
parent 2d46d7c121
commit ab13315af9
9 changed files with 106 additions and 6 deletions
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include/linux/ieee80211.h
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@ -120,6 +120,24 @@
#define IEEE80211_QOS_CTL_TID_MASK 0x000F
#define IEEE80211_QOS_CTL_TAG1D_MASK 0x0007
/* U-APSD queue for WMM IEs sent by AP */
#define IEEE80211_WMM_IE_AP_QOSINFO_UAPSD (1<<7)
/* U-APSD queues for WMM IEs sent by STA */
#define IEEE80211_WMM_IE_STA_QOSINFO_AC_VO (1<<0)
#define IEEE80211_WMM_IE_STA_QOSINFO_AC_VI (1<<1)
#define IEEE80211_WMM_IE_STA_QOSINFO_AC_BK (1<<2)
#define IEEE80211_WMM_IE_STA_QOSINFO_AC_BE (1<<3)
#define IEEE80211_WMM_IE_STA_QOSINFO_AC_MASK 0x0f
/* U-APSD max SP length for WMM IEs sent by STA */
#define IEEE80211_WMM_IE_STA_QOSINFO_SP_ALL 0x00
#define IEEE80211_WMM_IE_STA_QOSINFO_SP_2 0x01
#define IEEE80211_WMM_IE_STA_QOSINFO_SP_4 0x02
#define IEEE80211_WMM_IE_STA_QOSINFO_SP_6 0x03
#define IEEE80211_WMM_IE_STA_QOSINFO_SP_MASK 0x03
#define IEEE80211_WMM_IE_STA_QOSINFO_SP_SHIFT 5
struct ieee80211_hdr {
__le16 frame_control;
__le16 duration_id;