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iwlwifi: mvm: support bss dynamic alloc/dealloc of queues

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"DQA" is shorthand for "dynamic queue allocation". This
enables on-demand allocation of queues per RA/TID rather than
statically allocating per vif, thus allowing a potential
benefit of various factors.

Please refer to the DOC section this patch adds to sta.h to
see a more in-depth explanation of this feature.

There are many things to take into consideration when working
in DQA mode, and this patch is only one in a series. Note that
default operation mode is non-DQA mode, unless the FW
indicates that it supports DQA mode.

This patch enables support of DQA for a station connected to
an AP, and works in a non-aggregated mode.

When a frame for an unused RA/TID arrives at the driver, it
isn't TXed immediately, but deferred first until a suitable
queue is first allocated for it, and then TXed by a worker
that both allocates the queues and TXes deferred traffic.

When a STA is removed, its queues goes back into the queue
pools for reuse as needed.

Signed-off-by: Liad Kaufman <liad.kaufman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
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Liad Kaufman 2015-07-28 18:56:08 +03:00 • committed by Emmanuel Grumbach
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