Re: [ath9k] mesh powersave hardware sleep + wakeup

[Marco Porsch <marco.porsch@etit.tu-chemnitz.de>]

On 04/11/12 13:00, Marco Porsch wrote:
> On 03/16/12 23:09, Marco Porsch wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:42:02AM +0100, Marco Porsch wrote:
>>>> I am trying to implement the IEEE 802.11s power save schemes in mac80211.
>
> I did some hacking and can now answer part one of my question:
> yes, beaconing and power save are not mutually exclusive with ath9k.
>
> Second question: what about power save doze and waking up for _multiple_
> neighbors' beacons?

I've again done some hacking: now waking up for multiple neighbor 
beacons in mesh mode seems to work experimentally [1].

Next step is the mesh awake window i.e. just keep awake for a specified 
time after beacon TX.
Is it possible to configure the hardware accordingly?


There are some settings concerning ad-hoc's ATIM window in 
ath9k_hw_beaconinit that look like it should be possible to use hardware 
timers for that. Unfortunately, I had no success on these. Maybe it 
requires ATIM frames (-> AR_TXCFG_ADHOC_BEACON_ATIM_TX_POLICY)?

Regards,
Marco


[1]
I maintain a list of wakeup events stored as ath9k_beacon_state. When 
doing ath9k_ps_restore, I re-configure the hardware with a slightly 
modified version of ath9k_hw_set_sta_beacon_timers to expect the next 
wakeup event.
Actually seems to work.