Re: [PATCH 3/3] mac80211: select an AID when creating new mesh STAs

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Thu, 2015-07-02 at 10:45 -0400, Bob Copeland wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 03:31:38PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-07-02 at 09:28 -0400, Bob Copeland wrote:
> > > 
> > > +	DECLARE_BITMAP(aid_map, IEEE80211_MAX_AID + 1);
> > > 
> > Is there really much point in keeping a long-lived bitmap rather 
> > than
> > iterating the existing stations when adding a new one? It's not 
> > such a
> > frequent operation after all.
> 
> Not really -- I tried it both ways initially, and the bitmap ended up
> with less code and u.mesh was still (slightly) smaller than u.mgd, 
> but I agree it does feel kind of bloaty so I'll prep a version the 
> other way.

I was less worried about the bloat part than the "we're maintaining
this data twice" and corruptions/missing some remove paths etc. That
doesn't seem very likely though since it goes through the common
alloc/destroy path, so I guess it's not a problem.

Whichever you prefer really, I don't really mind.

johannes