[PATCH 3.8 23/86] mac80211: send control port protocol frames to the VO queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Apr 1 16:07:36 UTC 2014


3.8.13.21 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Felix Fietkau <nbd at openwrt.org>

commit 1bf4bbb4024dcdab5e57634dd8ae1072d42a53ac upstream.

Improves reliability of wifi connections with WPA, since authentication
frames are prioritized over normal traffic and also typically exempt
from aggregation.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd at openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/mac80211/wme.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/wme.c b/net/mac80211/wme.c
index 906f00c..8fa9cc6 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/wme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/wme.c
@@ -153,6 +153,11 @@ u16 ieee80211_select_queue(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
 		return IEEE80211_AC_BE;
 	}
 
+	if (skb->protocol == sdata->control_port_protocol) {
+		skb->priority = 7;
+		return ieee80211_downgrade_queue(sdata, skb);
+	}
+
 	/* use the data classifier to determine what 802.1d tag the
 	 * data frame has */
 	skb->priority = cfg80211_classify8021d(skb);
-- 
1.8.3.2





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