[Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH v2 1/4] mac80211: Rearrange ieee80211_tx_info to make room for tx_time_est

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

From: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at redhat.com>

To implement airtime queue limiting, we need to keep a running account of
the estimated airtime of all skbs queued into the device. Do to this
correctly, we need to store the airtime estimate into the skb so we can
decrease the outstanding balance when the skb is freed. This means that the
time estimate must be stored somewhere that will survive for the lifetime
of the skb.

Fortunately, we had a couple of bytes left in the 'status' field in the
ieee80211_tx_info; and since we only plan to calculate the airtime estimate
after the skb is dequeued from the FQ structure, on the control side we can
share the space with the codel enqueue time. And by rearranging the order
of elements it is possible to have the position of the new tx_time_est line
up between the control and status structs, so the value will survive from
when mac80211 hands the packet to the driver, and until the driver either
frees it, or hands it back through TX status.

Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at redhat.com>
---
 include/net/mac80211.h |   26 +++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index d69081c38788..49f8ea0af5f8 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -975,20 +975,23 @@ ieee80211_rate_get_vht_nss(const struct ieee80211_tx_rate *rate)
  * @control.short_preamble: use short preamble (CCK only)
  * @control.skip_table: skip externally configured rate table
  * @control.jiffies: timestamp for expiry on powersave clients
+ * @control.enqueue_time: enqueue time (for iTXQs)
+ * @control.tx_time_est: estimated airtime usage (shared with @status)
+ * @control.reserved: unused field to ensure alignment of data structure
+ * @control.flags: control flags, see &enum mac80211_tx_control_flags
  * @control.vif: virtual interface (may be NULL)
  * @control.hw_key: key to encrypt with (may be NULL)
- * @control.flags: control flags, see &enum mac80211_tx_control_flags
- * @control.enqueue_time: enqueue time (for iTXQs)
  * @driver_rates: alias to @control.rates to reserve space
  * @pad: padding
  * @rate_driver_data: driver use area if driver needs @control.rates
  * @status: union part for status data
  * @status.rates: attempted rates
  * @status.ack_signal: ACK signal
+ * @status.tx_time_est: estimated airtime of skb (shared with @control)
+ * @status.tx_time: actual airtime consumed for transmission
  * @status.ampdu_ack_len: AMPDU ack length
  * @status.ampdu_len: AMPDU length
  * @status.antenna: (legacy, kept only for iwlegacy)
- * @status.tx_time: airtime consumed for transmission
  * @status.is_valid_ack_signal: ACK signal is valid
  * @status.status_driver_data: driver use area
  * @ack: union part for pure ACK data
@@ -1026,11 +1029,17 @@ struct ieee80211_tx_info {
 				/* only needed before rate control */
 				unsigned long jiffies;
 			};
+			union {
+				codel_time_t enqueue_time;
+				struct {
+					u16 tx_time_est; /* shared with status */
+					u16 reserved; /* padding for alignment */
+				};
+			};
+			u32 flags;
 			/* NB: vif can be NULL for injected frames */
 			struct ieee80211_vif *vif;
 			struct ieee80211_key_conf *hw_key;
-			u32 flags;
-			codel_time_t enqueue_time;
 		} control;
 		struct {
 			u64 cookie;
@@ -1038,12 +1047,13 @@ struct ieee80211_tx_info {
 		struct {
 			struct ieee80211_tx_rate rates[IEEE80211_TX_MAX_RATES];
 			s32 ack_signal;
+			u16 tx_time_est; /* shared with control */
+			u16 tx_time;
 			u8 ampdu_ack_len;
 			u8 ampdu_len;
 			u8 antenna;
-			u16 tx_time;
 			bool is_valid_ack_signal;
-			void *status_driver_data[19 / sizeof(void *)];
+			void *status_driver_data[16 / sizeof(void *)];
 		} status;
 		struct {
 			struct ieee80211_tx_rate driver_rates[
@@ -1126,6 +1136,8 @@ ieee80211_tx_info_clear_status(struct ieee80211_tx_info *info)
 		     offsetof(struct ieee80211_tx_info, control.rates));
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct ieee80211_tx_info, status.rates) !=
 		     offsetof(struct ieee80211_tx_info, driver_rates));
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct ieee80211_tx_info, control.tx_time_est) !=
+		     offsetof(struct ieee80211_tx_info, status.tx_time_est));
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct ieee80211_tx_info, status.rates) != 8);
 	/* clear the rate counts */
 	for (i = 0; i < IEEE80211_TX_MAX_RATES; i++)