On Sun, 2013-12-15 at 13:14 -0800, Thomas Pedersen wrote: > From: Thomas Pedersen <[email protected]> > > This regression was introduced in "mac80211: cache mesh > beacon". > > mesh_sync_offset_adjust_tbtt() was assuming that the > beacon would be rebuilt in every single pre-tbtt > interrupt, but now the beacon update happens on the > workqueue, and it must be ready for immediate delivery to > the driver. > > Save a pointer to the meshconf IE in the beacon_data (this > works because both the IE pointer and beacon buffer are > protected by the same rcu_{dereference,assign_pointer}()) > for quick updates during pre-tbtt. This is faster and a > little prettier than iterating over the elements to find > the meshconf IE every time.
Applied, since it doesn't look like this depends on patch 2. I'll let you discuss patch 2 with Sergey first, though I'm of the opinion that if there's no per-vif TSF in your hardware then you're SOL anyway and what you did is fine. johannes _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open80211s.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel
