Ignore TXQs with the flag IEEE80211_TXQ_STOP when scheduling a queue.
The flag is only set after all fragments have been dequeued and won't
allow dequeueing other frames as long as the flag is set.
For drivers using ieee80211_txq_schedule_start() this prevents an
loop trying to push the queued frames while IEEE80211_TXQ_STOP is set:
After setting IEEE80211_TXQ_STOP the driver will call
ieee80211_return_txq(). Which calls __ieee80211_schedule_txq(), detects
that there sill are frames in the queue and immediately restarts the
stopped TXQ. Which can't dequeue any frame and thus starts over the loop.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Wetzel <Alexander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: ba8c3d6f16a1 ("mac80211: add an intermediate software queue implementation")
---
net/mac80211/tx.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index d58b80813bdd..4a9b258300fe 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -4098,7 +4098,9 @@ void __ieee80211_schedule_txq(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
spin_lock_bh(&local->active_txq_lock[txq->ac]);
- has_queue = force || txq_has_queue(txq);
+ has_queue = force ||
+ (!test_bit(IEEE80211_TXQ_STOP, &txqi->flags) &&
+ txq_has_queue(txq));
if (list_empty(&txqi->schedule_order) &&
(has_queue || ieee80211_txq_keep_active(txqi))) {
/* If airtime accounting is active, always enqueue STAs at the
--
2.50.0
