mac80211: decrease execution of the associated timer
authorKalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:57:06 +0000 (21:57 +0200)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:13:12 +0000 (20:13 -0400)
commit3cf335d527ba6af80f4143f3c9e5136afdb143af
tree3bde85689909d3185622ccafe16f55fe4469a6ce
parentaf83debf5bb44257082d4489ac86123a0cadf6d3
mac80211: decrease execution of the associated timer

Currently the timer is triggering every two seconds
(IEEE80211_MONITORING_INTERVAL). Decrease the timer to only trigger during
data idle periods to avoid waking up CPU unnecessary. The timer will
still trigger during idle periods, that needs to be fixed later.

There's also a functional change that probe requests are sent only when the
data path is idle, earlier they were sent also while there was activity
on the data path.

This is also preparation for the beacon filtering support. Thanks to
Johannes Berg for the idea.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
net/mac80211/mlme.c
net/mac80211/rx.c