iwlwifi: mvm: synchronize with FW after multicast commands
authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Sat, 4 Dec 2021 06:35:45 +0000 (08:35 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 27 Jan 2022 10:04:37 +0000 (11:04 +0100)
commit59b49457fbd870b4d033159698c452f7248b57b1
tree6db8d32a75216c4fdc87e870844902933975dd97
parentb52954c7798ecc2b833a68d20181e5efa5561453
iwlwifi: mvm: synchronize with FW after multicast commands

[ Upstream commit db66abeea3aefed481391ecc564fb7b7fb31d742 ]

If userspace installs a lot of multicast groups very quickly, then
we may run out of command queue space as we send the updates in an
asynchronous fashion (due to locking concerns), and the CPU can
create them faster than the firmware can process them. This is true
even when mac80211 has a work struct that gets scheduled.

Fix this by synchronizing with the firmware after sending all those
commands - outside of the iteration we can send a synchronous echo
command that just has the effect of the CPU waiting for the prior
asynchronous commands to finish. This also will cause fewer of the
commands to be sent to the firmware overall, because the work will
only run once when rescheduled multiple times while it's running.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213649
Suggested-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Reported-by: Maximilian Ernestus <maximilian@ernestus.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/iwlwifi.20211204083238.51aea5b79ea4.I88a44798efda16e9fe480fb3e94224931d311b29@changeid
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c