git: wlan - if_ath driver - Make some adjustments to ath (preliminary)

[Matthew Dillon]

commit 0c208ba482c80073e86a7d8412cdd547fd1a3d82
Author: Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com>
Date:   Wed Sep 8 00:20:23 2010 -0700

    wlan - if_ath driver - Make some adjustments to ath (preliminary)
    
    These adjustments correct some chip races and appear to fix issues
    related to running the wlan in AP mode with the atheros driver.
    
    * Fix a bug in ath_txqmove().  This bug was hidden due to a queue
      length check in the one place that used the routine but fix it anyway.
    
    * Call stoptxdma() before messing with the beacon linkages rather than
      afterwords (ap mode).  I'm a bit unclear as to whether the previously
      installed beacon should have been allowed to continue to run if no
      new beacons are found.  For now it isn't.
    
    * Redo the qbusy logic.  The old logic had at least 2 chipset/driver
      races related to the link field.  The new logic makes no assumptions
      and only reactivates the txdma if the queue is clearly idle and
      we are adding the first (bf) to it.  Otherwise leave it to the INT_TX
      code to detect where the txdma stopped and restart it at the
      appropriate place.
    
      This bit of code needs more work as the INT_TX for tx completion may
      be delayed indefinitely (we might need a callout check in there too,
      I'm not sure).
    
    * For the moment use MB_WAIT when loading or replentishing the receive ring.
      There does not appear to be a proper mechanism to deal with stalls that
      might be created if a mbuf fails to allocate.
    
      What we really need here is proper rx ring mbuf replacement logic where
      the filled mbuf is NOT removed if no new mbuf can be allocated to take
      its place.  Using MB_WAIT is a bad hack.  It isn't entirely trivial
      due to the DMA load and the 32 bit address space restriction.
    
    * Add a few cpu_sfence()s when poking the (bf) link field.  This probably
      isn't correct.
    
    * Cleanup, add some debugging kprintf()s for a few unexpected conditions

Summary of changes:
 sys/dev/netif/ath/ath/if_ath.c                     |  210 ++++++++++++--------
 sys/dev/netif/ath/ath/if_ath_pci.c                 |    2 +-
 sys/dev/netif/ath/hal/ath_hal/ar5210/ar5210_xmit.c |    1 +
 sys/dev/netif/ath/hal/ath_hal/ar5211/ar5211_xmit.c |    1 +
 sys/dev/netif/ath/hal/ath_hal/ar5212/ar5212_xmit.c |    2 +
 5 files changed, 133 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)

http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/commitdiff/0c208ba482c80073e86a7d8412cdd547fd1a3d82


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