mac80211: enable collecting station statistics per-CPU

If the driver advertises the new HW flag USE_RSS, make the
station statistics on the fast-rx path per-CPU. This will
enable calling the RX in parallel, only hitting locking or
shared cachelines when the fast-RX path isn't available.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This commit is contained in:
Johannes Berg
2016-03-31 20:02:11 +03:00
parent 49ddf8e6e2
commit c9c5962b56
5 changed files with 142 additions and 46 deletions

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@@ -1980,6 +1980,9 @@ struct ieee80211_txq {
* order and does not need to manage its own reorder buffer or BA session
* timeout.
*
* @IEEE80211_HW_USES_RSS: The device uses RSS and thus requires parallel RX,
* which implies using per-CPU station statistics.
*
* @NUM_IEEE80211_HW_FLAGS: number of hardware flags, used for sizing arrays
*/
enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
@@ -2017,6 +2020,7 @@ enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_TX_STATUS,
IEEE80211_HW_NEEDS_UNIQUE_STA_ADDR,
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_REORDERING_BUFFER,
IEEE80211_HW_USES_RSS,
/* keep last, obviously */
NUM_IEEE80211_HW_FLAGS