| From | Kamal Mostafa <> | Subject | [PATCH 3.8 23/86] mac80211: send control port protocol frames to the VO queue | Date | Tue, 1 Apr 2014 09:07:36 -0700 |
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3.8.13.21 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
commit 1bf4bbb4024dcdab5e57634dd8ae1072d42a53ac upstream.
Improves reliability of wifi connections with WPA, since authentication frames are prioritized over normal traffic and also typically exempt from aggregation.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> --- net/mac80211/wme.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/wme.c b/net/mac80211/wme.c index 906f00c..8fa9cc6 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/wme.c +++ b/net/mac80211/wme.c @@ -153,6 +153,11 @@ u16 ieee80211_select_queue(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, return IEEE80211_AC_BE; } + if (skb->protocol == sdata->control_port_protocol) { + skb->priority = 7; + return ieee80211_downgrade_queue(sdata, skb); + } + /* use the data classifier to determine what 802.1d tag the * data frame has */ skb->priority = cfg80211_classify8021d(skb); -- 1.8.3.2
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