From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Moving scan logic into work-queue?
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:15:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1322590531.4110.29.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ED520DD.8050606@candelatech.com>
On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 10:13 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> We've talked before about moving the scan logic into the work-queue.
I think you mean ieee80211_work, not work-queue.
> Since my previous attempts at optimizing this code for scanning & off-channel
> work didn't stick, I thought I might attempt to convert the scan logic
> to the work-queue, with hopes of then being able to make another attempt
> at optimizing things for multiple interfaces & potentially off-channel work
> items.
>
> Before I start though, I'm hoping for some guidance on how you'd
> want this implemented. Or, if you think there are other changes
> that should go in first, I'll wait...
In any case, yes, please don't work on this now. I need to rework auth &
assoc handling completely, and get rid of the work items for that etc.
That will probably mean a large rewrite of the work item logic, possibly
even removing most of that code.
johannes
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2011-11-29 18:13 Moving scan logic into work-queue? Ben Greear
2011-11-29 18:15 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2011-11-29 18:18 ` Ben Greear
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