[PATCH 5.5 61/80] mac80211: use more bits for ack_frame_id

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Feb 18 2020 - 15:02:56 EST


From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>

commit f2b18baca9539c6a3116d48b70972c7a2ba5d766 upstream.

It turns out that this wasn't a good idea, I hit a test failure in
hwsim due to this. That particular failure was easily worked around,
but it raised questions: if an AP needs to, for example, send action
frames to each connected station, the current limit is nowhere near
enough (especially if those stations are sleeping and the frames are
queued for a while.)

Shuffle around some bits to make more room for ack_frame_id to allow
up to 8192 queued up frames, that's enough for queueing 4 frames to
each connected station, even at the maximum of 2007 stations on a
single AP.

We take the bits from band (which currently only 2 but I leave 3 in
case we add another band) and from the hw_queue, which can only need
4 since it has a limit of 16 queues.

Fixes: 6912daed05e1 ("mac80211: Shrink the size of ack_frame_id to make room for tx_time_est")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Toke HÃiland-JÃrgensen <toke@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200115122549.b9a4ef9f4980.Ied52ed90150220b83a280009c590b65d125d087c@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
include/net/mac80211.h | 11 +++++------
net/mac80211/cfg.c | 2 +-
net/mac80211/tx.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -1004,12 +1004,11 @@ ieee80211_rate_get_vht_nss(const struct
struct ieee80211_tx_info {
/* common information */
u32 flags;
- u8 band;
-
- u8 hw_queue;
-
- u16 ack_frame_id:6;
- u16 tx_time_est:10;
+ u32 band:3,
+ ack_frame_id:13,
+ hw_queue:4,
+ tx_time_est:10;
+ /* 2 free bits */

union {
struct {
--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -3450,7 +3450,7 @@ int ieee80211_attach_ack_skb(struct ieee

spin_lock_irqsave(&local->ack_status_lock, spin_flags);
id = idr_alloc(&local->ack_status_frames, ack_skb,
- 1, 0x40, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ 1, 0x2000, GFP_ATOMIC);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&local->ack_status_lock, spin_flags);

if (id < 0) {
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -2442,7 +2442,7 @@ static int ieee80211_store_ack_skb(struc

spin_lock_irqsave(&local->ack_status_lock, flags);
id = idr_alloc(&local->ack_status_frames, ack_skb,
- 1, 0x40, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ 1, 0x2000, GFP_ATOMIC);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&local->ack_status_lock, flags);

if (id >= 0) {