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wl12xx: avoid starving the system hlid
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Re-factor the Tx scheduler so that the system_hlid is taken into account
before restarting an iteration over the wlvifs. Previously this
hlid had a lower priority and would starve if some wlvif had many
packets.
In addition avoid iterating over wlvifs past last_wlvif when performing
the a second pass. If we had packets in those wlvifs they would have
been found earlier.

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
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Arik Nemtsov authored and Luciano Coelho committed Feb 28, 2012
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17 changes: 13 additions & 4 deletions drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/tx.c
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Expand Up @@ -572,6 +572,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *wl1271_skb_dequeue(struct wl1271 *wl)
struct wl12xx_vif *wlvif = wl->last_wlvif;
struct sk_buff *skb = NULL;

/* continue from last wlvif (round robin) */
if (wlvif) {
wl12xx_for_each_wlvif_continue(wl, wlvif) {
skb = wl12xx_vif_skb_dequeue(wl, wlvif);
Expand All @@ -582,20 +583,28 @@ static struct sk_buff *wl1271_skb_dequeue(struct wl1271 *wl)
}
}

/* do another pass */
/* dequeue from the system HLID before the restarting wlvif list */
if (!skb)
skb = wl12xx_lnk_skb_dequeue(wl, &wl->links[wl->system_hlid]);

/* do a new pass over the wlvif list */
if (!skb) {
wl12xx_for_each_wlvif(wl, wlvif) {
skb = wl12xx_vif_skb_dequeue(wl, wlvif);
if (skb) {
wl->last_wlvif = wlvif;
break;
}

/*
* No need to continue after last_wlvif. The previous
* pass should have found it.
*/
if (wlvif == wl->last_wlvif)
break;
}
}

if (!skb)
skb = wl12xx_lnk_skb_dequeue(wl, &wl->links[wl->system_hlid]);

if (!skb &&
test_and_clear_bit(WL1271_FLAG_DUMMY_PACKET_PENDING, &wl->flags)) {
int q;
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