mac80211: update adjusting TBTT bit in beacon

This regression was introduced in "mac80211: cache mesh
beacon".

mesh_sync_offset_adjust_tbtt()  was assuming that the
beacon would be rebuilt in every single pre-tbtt
interrupt, but now the beacon update happens on the
workqueue, and it must be ready for immediate delivery to
the driver.

Save a pointer to the meshconf IE in the beacon_data (this
works because both the IE pointer and beacon buffer are
protected by the same rcu_{dereference,assign_pointer}())
for quick updates during pre-tbtt. This is faster and a
little prettier than iterating over the elements to find
the meshconf IE every time.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This commit is contained in:
Thomas Pedersen
2013-12-15 13:14:16 -08:00
committed by Johannes Berg
parent d43c6b6e6f
commit 43552be1da
4 changed files with 22 additions and 4 deletions

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@@ -259,6 +259,9 @@ int mesh_add_meshconf_ie(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
*pos++ = WLAN_EID_MESH_CONFIG;
*pos++ = meshconf_len;
/* save a pointer for quick updates in pre-tbtt */
ifmsh->meshconf_offset = pos - skb->data;
/* Active path selection protocol ID */
*pos++ = ifmsh->mesh_pp_id;
/* Active path selection metric ID */
@@ -723,6 +726,8 @@ ieee80211_mesh_build_beacon(struct ieee80211_if_mesh *ifmsh)
bcn->tail_len = skb->len;
memcpy(bcn->tail, skb->data, bcn->tail_len);
bcn->meshconf = (struct ieee80211_meshconf_ie *)
(bcn->tail + ifmsh->meshconf_offset);
dev_kfree_skb(skb);
rcu_assign_pointer(ifmsh->beacon, bcn);