Commit ac5e1e39 authored by Juuso Oikarinen's avatar Juuso Oikarinen Committed by John W. Linville

wl1271: Update TX packet life time handling with higher resolution time

This patch uses a higher precision timer to synchronize with the firmware
clock. Improved precision is needed as on some platforms a jiffy may be up to
tens of milliseconds, and the required precision is closer to TU's.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJuuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarTeemu Paasikivi <ext-teemu.3.paasikivi@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent 1e73eb62
...@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ struct wl1271 { ...@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ struct wl1271 {
u32 tx_packets_count; u32 tx_packets_count;
/* Time-offset between host and chipset clocks */ /* Time-offset between host and chipset clocks */
int time_offset; s64 time_offset;
/* Session counter for the chipset */ /* Session counter for the chipset */
int session_counter; int session_counter;
......
...@@ -374,6 +374,7 @@ static void wl1271_power_on(struct wl1271 *wl) ...@@ -374,6 +374,7 @@ static void wl1271_power_on(struct wl1271 *wl)
static void wl1271_fw_status(struct wl1271 *wl, static void wl1271_fw_status(struct wl1271 *wl,
struct wl1271_fw_status *status) struct wl1271_fw_status *status)
{ {
struct timespec ts;
u32 total = 0; u32 total = 0;
int i; int i;
...@@ -402,8 +403,9 @@ static void wl1271_fw_status(struct wl1271 *wl, ...@@ -402,8 +403,9 @@ static void wl1271_fw_status(struct wl1271 *wl,
ieee80211_queue_work(wl->hw, &wl->tx_work); ieee80211_queue_work(wl->hw, &wl->tx_work);
/* update the host-chipset time offset */ /* update the host-chipset time offset */
wl->time_offset = jiffies_to_usecs(jiffies) - getnstimeofday(&ts);
le32_to_cpu(status->fw_localtime); wl->time_offset = (timespec_to_ns(&ts) >> 10) -
(s64)le32_to_cpu(status->fw_localtime);
} }
#define WL1271_IRQ_MAX_LOOPS 10 #define WL1271_IRQ_MAX_LOOPS 10
......
...@@ -86,8 +86,10 @@ static int wl1271_tx_allocate(struct wl1271 *wl, struct sk_buff *skb, u32 extra) ...@@ -86,8 +86,10 @@ static int wl1271_tx_allocate(struct wl1271 *wl, struct sk_buff *skb, u32 extra)
static int wl1271_tx_fill_hdr(struct wl1271 *wl, struct sk_buff *skb, static int wl1271_tx_fill_hdr(struct wl1271 *wl, struct sk_buff *skb,
u32 extra, struct ieee80211_tx_info *control) u32 extra, struct ieee80211_tx_info *control)
{ {
struct timespec ts;
struct wl1271_tx_hw_descr *desc; struct wl1271_tx_hw_descr *desc;
int pad, ac; int pad, ac;
s64 hosttime;
u16 tx_attr; u16 tx_attr;
desc = (struct wl1271_tx_hw_descr *) skb->data; desc = (struct wl1271_tx_hw_descr *) skb->data;
...@@ -101,8 +103,9 @@ static int wl1271_tx_fill_hdr(struct wl1271 *wl, struct sk_buff *skb, ...@@ -101,8 +103,9 @@ static int wl1271_tx_fill_hdr(struct wl1271 *wl, struct sk_buff *skb,
} }
/* configure packet life time */ /* configure packet life time */
desc->start_time = cpu_to_le32(jiffies_to_usecs(jiffies) - getnstimeofday(&ts);
wl->time_offset); hosttime = (timespec_to_ns(&ts) >> 10);
desc->start_time = cpu_to_le32(hosttime - wl->time_offset);
desc->life_time = cpu_to_le16(TX_HW_MGMT_PKT_LIFETIME_TU); desc->life_time = cpu_to_le16(TX_HW_MGMT_PKT_LIFETIME_TU);
/* configure the tx attributes */ /* configure the tx attributes */
......
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