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authorYogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>2011-04-27 18:40:29 +0530
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2011-04-28 14:53:21 -0400
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mac80211: Skip tailroom reservation for full HW-crypto devices
In xmit path, devices that do full hardware crypto (including TKIP MMIC) need no tailroom. For such devices, tailroom reservation can be skipped if all the keys are programmed into the hardware (i.e software crypto is not used for any of the keys) and none of the keys wants software to generate Michael MIC. Signed-off-by: Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/tx.c')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/tx.c7
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index a2043e4..e3e3aa1 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -1476,12 +1476,7 @@ static int ieee80211_skb_resize(struct ieee80211_local *local,
{
int tail_need = 0;
- /*
- * This could be optimised, devices that do full hardware
- * crypto (including TKIP MMIC) need no tailroom... But we
- * have no drivers for such devices currently.
- */
- if (may_encrypt) {
+ if (may_encrypt && local->crypto_tx_tailroom_needed_cnt) {
tail_need = IEEE80211_ENCRYPT_TAILROOM;
tail_need -= skb_tailroom(skb);
tail_need = max_t(int, tail_need, 0);