mac80211: add a function for running rx without passing skbs to the stack

This can be used to run mac80211 rx processing on a batch of frames in NAPI
poll before passing them to the network stack in a large batch.
This can improve icache footprint, or it can be used to pass frames via
netif_receive_skb_list.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200726110611.46886-1-nbd@nbd.name
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 6e26f0ba6fd0..66e2bfd165e8 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -4361,6 +4361,31 @@ void ieee80211_free_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw);
 void ieee80211_restart_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw);
 
 /**
+ * ieee80211_rx_list - receive frame and store processed skbs in a list
+ *
+ * Use this function to hand received frames to mac80211. The receive
+ * buffer in @skb must start with an IEEE 802.11 header. In case of a
+ * paged @skb is used, the driver is recommended to put the ieee80211
+ * header of the frame on the linear part of the @skb to avoid memory
+ * allocation and/or memcpy by the stack.
+ *
+ * This function may not be called in IRQ context. Calls to this function
+ * for a single hardware must be synchronized against each other. Calls to
+ * this function, ieee80211_rx_ni() and ieee80211_rx_irqsafe() may not be
+ * mixed for a single hardware. Must not run concurrently with
+ * ieee80211_tx_status() or ieee80211_tx_status_ni().
+ *
+ * This function must be called with BHs disabled and RCU read lock
+ *
+ * @hw: the hardware this frame came in on
+ * @sta: the station the frame was received from, or %NULL
+ * @skb: the buffer to receive, owned by mac80211 after this call
+ * @list: the destination list
+ */
+void ieee80211_rx_list(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_sta *sta,
+		       struct sk_buff *skb, struct list_head *list);
+
+/**
  * ieee80211_rx_napi - receive frame from NAPI context
  *
  * Use this function to hand received frames to mac80211. The receive