rt2x00: Decrease association time for USB devices

When powersaving is enabled, assocaition times are very high
(for WPA2 networks, the time can easily be around the 3 seconds).

This is caused, because the flushing of the queues takes
too much time. Without the flushing callback mac80211 assumes
a timeout of 100ms while scanning. Limit all flush waiting
loops to the same maximum.

We can apply this maximum by passing the drop status to the
driver, which makes sure the driver performs extra actions
during the waiting for the queue to become empty.

After these changes, association times fall within the
healthy range of ~0.6 seconds with powersaving enabled.
The difference between association time between powersaving
enabled and disabled is now only ~0.1 second (which can also
be due to the measuring method).

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00pci.h b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00pci.h
index 07961b8b369..5d5887426f7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00pci.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00pci.h
@@ -107,6 +107,16 @@ struct queue_entry_priv_pci {
  */
 bool rt2x00pci_rxdone(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev);
 
+/**
+ * rt2x00pci_flush_queue - Flush data queue
+ * @queue: Data queue to stop
+ * @drop: True to drop all pending frames.
+ *
+ * This will wait for a maximum of 100ms, waiting for the queues
+ * to become empty.
+ */
+void rt2x00pci_flush_queue(struct data_queue *queue, bool drop);
+
 /*
  * Device initialization handlers.
  */