rt2800usb: read TX_STA_FIFO asynchronously

Trying to fix the "TX status report missed" warnings
by reading the TX_STA_FIFO entries as quickly as possible.
The TX_STA_FIFO is too small in hardware, thus reading
it only from the workqueue is too slow and entries get lost.

Start an asynchronous read of the TX_STA_FIFO directly from
the TX URB completion callback (atomic context, thus it cannot
use the blocking rt2800_register_read()). If the async
read returns a valid FIFO entry, it is pushed into a larger
FIFO inside struct rt2x00_dev, until rt2800_txdone() picks
it up.

A .tx_dma_done callback is added to struct rt2x00lib_ops
to trigger the async read from the URB completion callback.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This commit is contained in:
Johannes Stezenbach
2011-04-18 15:29:12 +02:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent 8da3efbb4a
commit 0e0d39e5f3
5 changed files with 110 additions and 24 deletions

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@@ -345,6 +345,21 @@ int rt2x00usb_regbusy_read(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev,
const struct rt2x00_field32 field,
u32 *reg);
/**
* rt2x00usb_register_read_async - Asynchronously read 32bit register word
* @rt2x00dev: Device pointer, see &struct rt2x00_dev.
* @offset: Register offset
* @callback: Functon to call when read completes.
*
* Submit a control URB to read a 32bit register. This safe to
* be called from atomic context. The callback will be called
* when the URB completes. Otherwise the function is similar
* to rt2x00usb_register_read().
*/
void rt2x00usb_register_read_async(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev,
const unsigned int offset,
void (*callback)(struct rt2x00_dev*,int,u32));
/*
* Radio handlers
*/