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authorEmmanuel Grumbach2012-05-24 19:24:34 +0300
committerJohannes Berg2012-06-06 13:21:22 +0200
commit59c647b6266506cbbceadfabfd01168148f026c5 (patch)
tree7fc0ea93110ea25bcbb96f42253931bc59199873 /drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h
parentcde5b48700bde6edc24c26d3d1bbec219e0ef2a1 (diff)
iwlwifi: allocate Tx cmd pool per device
Different transports will have different needs: New tranports need headroom for their own use before the Tx cmd. So allocate the Tx cmd pool in the transport and give it a unique name based on dev_name. Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h29
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h
index 90ef0dc5f275..00efde8e5536 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h
@@ -433,6 +433,11 @@ enum iwl_trans_state {
* @hw_id_str: a string with info about HW ID. Set during transport allocation.
* @pm_support: set to true in start_hw if link pm is supported
* @wait_command_queue: the wait_queue for SYNC host commands
+ * @dev_cmd_pool: pool for Tx cmd allocation - for internal use only.
+ * The user should use iwl_trans_{alloc,free}_tx_cmd.
+ * @dev_cmd_headroom: room needed for the transport's private use before the
+ * device_cmd for Tx - for internal use only
+ * The user should use iwl_trans_{alloc,free}_tx_cmd.
*/
struct iwl_trans {
const struct iwl_trans_ops *ops;
@@ -450,6 +455,10 @@ struct iwl_trans {
wait_queue_head_t wait_command_queue;
+ /* The following fields are internal only */
+ struct kmem_cache *dev_cmd_pool;
+ size_t dev_cmd_headroom;
+
/* pointer to trans specific struct */
/*Ensure that this pointer will always be aligned to sizeof pointer */
char trans_specific[0] __aligned(sizeof(void *));
@@ -525,6 +534,26 @@ static inline int iwl_trans_send_cmd(struct iwl_trans *trans,
return trans->ops->send_cmd(trans, cmd);
}
+static inline struct iwl_device_cmd *
+iwl_trans_alloc_tx_cmd(struct iwl_trans *trans)
+{
+ u8 *dev_cmd_ptr = kmem_cache_alloc(trans->dev_cmd_pool, GFP_ATOMIC);
+
+ if (unlikely(dev_cmd_ptr == NULL))
+ return NULL;
+
+ return (struct iwl_device_cmd *)
+ (dev_cmd_ptr + trans->dev_cmd_headroom);
+}
+
+static inline void iwl_trans_free_tx_cmd(struct iwl_trans *trans,
+ struct iwl_device_cmd *dev_cmd)
+{
+ u8 *dev_cmd_ptr = (u8 *)dev_cmd - trans->dev_cmd_headroom;
+
+ kmem_cache_free(trans->dev_cmd_pool, dev_cmd_ptr);
+}
+
static inline int iwl_trans_tx(struct iwl_trans *trans, struct sk_buff *skb,
struct iwl_device_cmd *dev_cmd, int queue)
{