[PATCH v5] mac80211: Fix regression in mesh forwarding path.

Andrey Yurovsky andrey at cozybit.com
Fri Jul 10 15:04:30 EDT 2009


On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:51 AM, John W.
Linville<linville at tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 10:55:03AM -0700, javier at cozybit.com wrote:
>> From: Javier Cardona <javier at cozybit.com>
>>
>> The removal of the master netdev broke the mesh forwarding path.  This patch
>> fixes it by using the new internal 'pending' queue.
>>
>> As a result of this change, mesh forwarding no longer does the inefficient
>> 802.11 -> 802.3 -> 802.11 conversion that was done before.
>>
>> [Changes since v1]
>> Suggested by Johannes:
>>  - Select queue before adding to mpath queue
>>  - ieee80211_add_pending_skb -> ieee80211_add_pending_skbs
>>  - Remove unnecessary header wme.h
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier at cozybit.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey at cozybit.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net>
>
> What tree are you basing this on?

wireless-testing, the latest (re-spun) version applied on top of
commit 5ac0fb5e5044cb578fb352dc65def1a46a2a21aa


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