From 1bf4bbb4024dcdab5e57634dd8ae1072d42a53ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Felix Fietkau Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:02:47 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: send control port protocol frames to the VO queue Improves reliability of wifi connections with WPA, since authentication frames are prioritized over normal traffic and also typically exempt from aggregation. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- net/mac80211/wme.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/mac80211/wme.c b/net/mac80211/wme.c index 21211c60ca98..d51422c778de 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/wme.c +++ b/net/mac80211/wme.c @@ -154,6 +154,11 @@ u16 ieee80211_select_queue(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, return IEEE80211_AC_BE; } + if (skb->protocol == sdata->control_port_protocol) { + skb->priority = 7; + return ieee80211_downgrade_queue(sdata, skb); + } + /* use the data classifier to determine what 802.1d tag the * data frame has */ rcu_read_lock();