Commit 8900170d authored by Vivek Natarajan's avatar Vivek Natarajan Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

mac80211: Reset dynamic ps timer in Rx path.

commit e15276a4 upstream.

The current mac80211 implementation enables power save if there
is no Tx traffic for a specific timeout. Hence, PS is triggered
even if there is a continuous Rx only traffic(like UDP) going on.
This makes the drivers to wait on the tim bit in the next beacon
to awake which leads to redundant sleep-wake cycles.
Fix this by restarting the dynamic ps timer on receiving every
data packet.
Signed-off-by: default avatarVivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 948dc19c
......@@ -1590,6 +1590,7 @@ static ieee80211_rx_result debug_noinline
ieee80211_rx_h_data(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
{
struct net_device *dev = rx->dev;
struct ieee80211_local *local = rx->local;
struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)rx->skb->data;
__le16 fc = hdr->frame_control;
int err;
......@@ -1612,6 +1613,13 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_data(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
dev->stats.rx_packets++;
dev->stats.rx_bytes += rx->skb->len;
if (ieee80211_is_data(hdr->frame_control) &&
!is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1) &&
local->hw.conf.dynamic_ps_timeout > 0 && local->ps_sdata) {
mod_timer(&local->dynamic_ps_timer, jiffies +
msecs_to_jiffies(local->hw.conf.dynamic_ps_timeout));
}
ieee80211_deliver_skb(rx);
return RX_QUEUED;
......
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