mac80211: use call_rcu() on sta deletion
mac80211 calls synchronize_rcu() on sta deletion,
which increase the roaming time significantly.
Convert it into a call_rcu() mechanism, in order
to avoid blocking. Since some of the cleanup
functions might sleep, schedule from the call_rcu
callback a new work that will do the actual cleanup.
In order to make sure the cleanup occurs before
the interface went down, flush local->workqueue
on ieee80211_do_stop().
Signed-off-by: Yoni Divinsky <yoni.divinsky@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.h b/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
index a470e11..c88f161f 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
@@ -287,6 +287,7 @@
struct sta_info {
/* General information, mostly static */
struct list_head list;
+ struct rcu_head rcu_head;
struct sta_info __rcu *hnext;
struct ieee80211_local *local;
struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata;
@@ -297,6 +298,7 @@
spinlock_t lock;
struct work_struct drv_unblock_wk;
+ struct work_struct free_sta_wk;
u16 listen_interval;