ath9k: Skip FFT reports if we are out of output buffers
authorNick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Wed, 29 Apr 2015 23:51:19 +0000 (23:51 +0000)
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Sat, 9 May 2015 13:46:16 +0000 (16:46 +0300)
There is no reason to keep processing FFT reports if there is no
space left on the relayfs buffers for the results. This saves
lots of CPU cycles, especially on normal (non-short) reports.

Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/common-spectral.c

index b8682bc4f7ac2e204c75fd74bd75a5d293a97a47..4ab08edeb065e4a104f579da9c27f60d737ff084 100644 (file)
@@ -473,6 +473,24 @@ ath_cmn_copy_fft_frame(u8 *in, u8 *out, int sample_len, int sample_bytes)
        }
 }
 
+static int
+ath_cmn_is_fft_buf_full(struct ath_spec_scan_priv *spec_priv)
+{
+       int i = 0;
+       int ret = 0;
+       struct rchan *rc = spec_priv->rfs_chan_spec_scan;
+
+       for_each_online_cpu(i)
+               ret += relay_buf_full(rc->buf[i]);
+
+       i = num_online_cpus();
+
+       if (ret == i)
+               return 1;
+       else
+               return 0;
+}
+
 /* returns 1 if this was a spectral frame, even if not handled. */
 int ath_cmn_process_fft(struct ath_spec_scan_priv *spec_priv, struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr,
                    struct ath_rx_status *rs, u64 tsf)
@@ -509,6 +527,16 @@ int ath_cmn_process_fft(struct ath_spec_scan_priv *spec_priv, struct ieee80211_h
        if (!(radar_info->pulse_bw_info & SPECTRAL_SCAN_BITMASK))
                return 0;
 
+       /* Output buffers are full, no need to process anything
+        * since there is no space to put the result anyway
+        */
+       ret = ath_cmn_is_fft_buf_full(spec_priv);
+       if (ret == 1) {
+               ath_dbg(common, SPECTRAL_SCAN, "FFT report ignored, no space "
+                                               "left on output buffers\n");
+               return 1;
+       }
+
        chan_type = cfg80211_get_chandef_type(&common->hw->conf.chandef);
        if ((chan_type == NL80211_CHAN_HT40MINUS) ||
            (chan_type == NL80211_CHAN_HT40PLUS)) {