iwlwifi: reuse page for notification packets

For notification packets and SKBs that fail to rx correctly, add
them back into the rx_free list so that the pages can be reused
later. This avoids allocating new rx pages unnecessarily.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
index 0d38865052056f196eaf24736a87807cd7a7edf8..ea1b9315f17c88417cbd6f011ea5a4833b922ec3 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
@@ -769,7 +769,7 @@ void iwl_rx_handle(struct iwl_priv *priv)
                IWL_DEBUG_RX(priv, "r = %d, i = %d\n", r, i);
 
        /* calculate total frames need to be restock after handling RX */
-       total_empty = r - priv->rxq.write_actual;
+       total_empty = r - rxq->write_actual;
        if (total_empty < 0)
                total_empty += RX_QUEUE_SIZE;
 
@@ -841,25 +841,28 @@ void iwl_rx_handle(struct iwl_priv *priv)
                                IWL_WARN(priv, "Claim null rxb?\n");
                }
 
-               /* For now we just don't re-use anything.  We can tweak this
-                * later to try and re-use notification packets and SKBs that
-                * fail to Rx correctly */
+               /* Reuse the page if possible. For notification packets and
+                * SKBs that fail to Rx correctly, add them back into the
+                * rx_free list for reuse later. */
+               spin_lock_irqsave(&rxq->lock, flags);
                if (rxb->page != NULL) {
-                       priv->alloc_rxb_page--;
-                       __free_pages(rxb->page, priv->hw_params.rx_page_order);
-                       rxb->page = NULL;
-               }
+                       rxb->page_dma = pci_map_page(priv->pci_dev, rxb->page,
+                               0, PAGE_SIZE << priv->hw_params.rx_page_order,
+                               PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE);
+                       list_add_tail(&rxb->list, &rxq->rx_free);
+                       rxq->free_count++;
+               } else
+                       list_add_tail(&rxb->list, &rxq->rx_used);
 
-               spin_lock_irqsave(&rxq->lock, flags);
-               list_add_tail(&rxb->list, &priv->rxq.rx_used);
                spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rxq->lock, flags);
+
                i = (i + 1) & RX_QUEUE_MASK;
                /* If there are a lot of unused frames,
                 * restock the Rx queue so ucode wont assert. */
                if (fill_rx) {
                        count++;
                        if (count >= 8) {
-                               priv->rxq.read = i;
+                               rxq->read = i;
                                iwl_rx_replenish_now(priv);
                                count = 0;
                        }
@@ -867,7 +870,7 @@ void iwl_rx_handle(struct iwl_priv *priv)
        }
 
        /* Backtrack one entry */
-       priv->rxq.read = i;
+       rxq->read = i;
        if (fill_rx)
                iwl_rx_replenish_now(priv);
        else

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
index 8b08bdc10bc91411650f3dc09d7e71b30bdafa88..9a430eed34ad4372b3a3ff15dda532b07fd8252a 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
@@ -1367,7 +1367,7 @@ static void iwl3945_rx_handle(struct iwl_priv *priv)
        i = rxq->read;
 
        /* calculate total frames need to be restock after handling RX */
-       total_empty = r - priv->rxq.write_actual;
+       total_empty = r - rxq->write_actual;
        if (total_empty < 0)
                total_empty += RX_QUEUE_SIZE;
 
@@ -1438,25 +1438,28 @@ static void iwl3945_rx_handle(struct iwl_priv *priv)
                                IWL_WARN(priv, "Claim null rxb?\n");
                }
 
-               /* For now we just don't re-use anything.  We can tweak this
-                * later to try and re-use notification packets and SKBs that
-                * fail to Rx correctly */
+               /* Reuse the page if possible. For notification packets and
+                * SKBs that fail to Rx correctly, add them back into the
+                * rx_free list for reuse later. */
+               spin_lock_irqsave(&rxq->lock, flags);
                if (rxb->page != NULL) {
-                       priv->alloc_rxb_page--;
-                       __free_pages(rxb->page, priv->hw_params.rx_page_order);
-                       rxb->page = NULL;
-               }
+                       rxb->page_dma = pci_map_page(priv->pci_dev, rxb->page,
+                               0, PAGE_SIZE << priv->hw_params.rx_page_order,
+                               PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE);
+                       list_add_tail(&rxb->list, &rxq->rx_free);
+                       rxq->free_count++;
+               } else
+                       list_add_tail(&rxb->list, &rxq->rx_used);
 
-               spin_lock_irqsave(&rxq->lock, flags);
-               list_add_tail(&rxb->list, &priv->rxq.rx_used);
                spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rxq->lock, flags);
+
                i = (i + 1) & RX_QUEUE_MASK;
                /* If there are a lot of unused frames,
                 * restock the Rx queue so ucode won't assert. */
                if (fill_rx) {
                        count++;
                        if (count >= 8) {
-                               priv->rxq.read = i;
+                               rxq->read = i;
                                iwl3945_rx_replenish_now(priv);
                                count = 0;
                        }
@@ -1464,7 +1467,7 @@ static void iwl3945_rx_handle(struct iwl_priv *priv)
        }
 
        /* Backtrack one entry */
-       priv->rxq.read = i;
+       rxq->read = i;
        if (fill_rx)
                iwl3945_rx_replenish_now(priv);
        else