mac802154: add interframe spacing time handling

This patch adds a new interframe spacing time handling into mac802154
layer. Interframe spacing time is a time period between each transmit.
This patch adds a high resolution timer into mac802154 and starts on
xmit complete with corresponding interframe spacing expire time if
ifs_handling is true. We make it variable because it depends if
interframe spacing time is handled by transceiver or mac802154. At the
timer complete function we wake the netdev queue again. This avoids
new frame transmit in range of interframe spacing time.

For synced driver we add no handling of interframe spacing time. This
is currently a lack of support in all synced xmit drivers. I suppose
it's working because the latency of workqueue which is needed to call
spi_sync.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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Alexander Aring
2014-11-12 19:51:56 +01:00
committed by Marcel Holtmann
parent a930430b04
commit 61f2dcba9a
9 changed files with 67 additions and 6 deletions

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#define IEEE802154_EXTENDED_ADDR_LEN 8
#define IEEE802154_LIFS_PERIOD 40
#define IEEE802154_SIFS_PERIOD 12
#define IEEE802154_FC_TYPE_BEACON 0x0 /* Frame is beacon */
#define IEEE802154_FC_TYPE_DATA 0x1 /* Frame is data */
#define IEEE802154_FC_TYPE_ACK 0x2 /* Frame is acknowledgment */