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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2012-03-05 11:24:21 -0800
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2012-03-06 15:16:08 -0500
commit71cb99241d63b26a41c9cce6ed441bc30f90224a (patch)
tree3c35d75ba7ff93cfa42675e32b6d68e60c048f14 /drivers/net
parentf2b69ef022aba3fe436bb03664cf12b261cb64d1 (diff)
iwlwifi: reduce sta_lock hold time in TX
When we TX, we hold the sta_lock for a long time, a lot of which isn't needed. Reduce the time we hold the lock. Note that this doesn't really change anything as the code is already under the other spinlock, but it makes the code easier to read. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-tx.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-tx.c
index 81a3b0e3a8e0..59509d80f73f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-tx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-tx.c
@@ -341,13 +341,10 @@ int iwlagn_tx_skb(struct iwl_priv *priv, struct sk_buff *skb)
if (info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_AMPDU)
is_agg = true;
- /* irqs already disabled/saved above when locking priv->shrd->lock */
- spin_lock(&priv->shrd->sta_lock);
-
dev_cmd = kmem_cache_alloc(priv->tx_cmd_pool, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (unlikely(!dev_cmd))
- goto drop_unlock_sta;
+ goto drop_unlock_priv;
memset(dev_cmd, 0, sizeof(*dev_cmd));
tx_cmd = (struct iwl_tx_cmd *) dev_cmd->payload;
@@ -372,6 +369,9 @@ int iwlagn_tx_skb(struct iwl_priv *priv, struct sk_buff *skb)
info->driver_data[0] = ctx;
info->driver_data[1] = dev_cmd;
+ /* irqs already disabled/saved above when locking priv->shrd->lock */
+ spin_lock(&priv->shrd->sta_lock);
+
if (ieee80211_is_data_qos(fc) && !ieee80211_is_qos_nullfunc(fc)) {
u8 *qc = NULL;
struct iwl_tid_data *tid_data;