mac80211: send wpa frames through the WMM voice queue - improves connection reliability

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>

SVN-Revision: 39572
master
Felix Fietkau 11 years ago
parent cd7fb9a51f
commit c0bec2b315
  1. 27
      package/kernel/mac80211/patches/300-pending_work.patch

@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
commit 82ed9e3ccc02797df2ffe4b78127c4cd5f799a41
Author: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Date: Tue Feb 11 15:54:13 2014 +0100
mac80211: send control port protocol frames to the VO queue
Improves reliability of wifi connections with WPA, since authentication
frames are prioritized over normal traffic and also typically exempt
from aggregation.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
commit d4426800f71e972feaa33e04c5801fc730627bdd
Author: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
Date: Mon Feb 10 22:38:28 2014 +0100
@ -2705,3 +2718,17 @@ Date: Thu Jan 23 20:06:34 2014 +0100
bool rfkill_off;
u16 seqno;
};
--- a/net/mac80211/wme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/wme.c
@@ -154,6 +154,11 @@ u16 ieee80211_select_queue(struct ieee80
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 */
rcu_read_lock();

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