mac80211: add fast-rx path

The regular RX path has a lot of code, but with a few
assumptions on the hardware it's possible to reduce the
amount of code significantly. Currently the assumptions
on the driver are the following:
 * hardware/driver reordering buffer (if supporting aggregation)
 * hardware/driver decryption & PN checking (if using encryption)
 * hardware/driver did de-duplication
 * hardware/driver did A-MSDU deaggregation
 * AP_LINK_PS is used (in AP mode)
 * no client powersave handling in mac80211 (in client mode)

of which some are actually checked per packet:
 * de-duplication
 * PN checking
 * decryption
and additionally packets must
 * not be A-MSDU (have been deaggregated by driver/device)
 * be data packets
 * not be fragmented
 * be unicast
 * have RFC 1042 header

Additionally dynamically we assume:
 * no encryption or CCMP/GCMP, TKIP/WEP/other not allowed
 * station must be authorized
 * 4-addr format not enabled

Some data needed for the RX path is cached in a new per-station
"fast_rx" structure, so that we only need to look at this and
the packet, no other memory when processing packets on the fast
RX path.

After doing the above per-packet checks, the data path collapses
down to a pretty simple conversion function taking advantage of
the data cached in the small fast_rx struct.

This should speed up the RX processing, and will make it easier
to reason about parallelizing RX (for which statistics will need
to be per-CPU still.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>

diff --git a/include/linux/ieee80211.h b/include/linux/ieee80211.h
index 633053047fbc070f4ee93815bfc58855ee2cb046..4c5a283dbff4b3bb3906aabc4d03aa67c46fde14 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/ieee80211.h
+++ b/include/linux/ieee80211.h
@@ -644,6 +644,16 @@ static inline bool ieee80211_is_first_frag(__le16 seq_ctrl)
        return (seq_ctrl & cpu_to_le16(IEEE80211_SCTL_FRAG)) == 0;
 }
 
+/**
+ * ieee80211_is_frag - check if a frame is a fragment
+ * @hdr: 802.11 header of the frame
+ */
+static inline bool ieee80211_is_frag(struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr)
+{
+       return ieee80211_has_morefrags(hdr->frame_control) ||
+              hdr->seq_ctrl & cpu_to_le16(IEEE80211_SCTL_FRAG);
+}
+
 struct ieee80211s_hdr {
        u8 flags;
        u8 ttl;