• Johannes Berg's avatar
    mac80211: use RCU for RX aggregation · a87f736d
    Johannes Berg authored
    Currently we allocate some memory for each RX
    aggregation session and additionally keep a
    flag indicating whether or not it is valid.
    By using RCU to protect the pointer and making
    sure that the memory is fully set up before it
    becomes visible to the RX path, we can remove
    the need for the bool that indicates validity,
    as well as for locking on the RX path since it
    is always synchronised against itself, and we
    can guarantee that all other modifications are
    done when the structure is not visible to the
    RX path.
    
    The net result is that since we remove locking
    requirements from the RX path, we can in the
    future use any kind of lock for the setup and
    teardown code paths.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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