Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: Be able to set bss expire time at config stage. | From | Johannes Berg <> | Date | Mon, 22 May 2017 18:19:14 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2017-05-22 at 18:09 +0200, Enric Balletbo i Serra wrote: > The IEEE80211_SCAN_RESULT_EXPIRE value was modified several times in > the > past. Initially was set at 10 seconds (2a51931192), then increased at > 15 > seconds (09f97e0fc4) and finally to 30 seconds (f9616e0f88) to cover > the > use case when a station is having heavy uplink traffic. On some > devices, > like Chromebooks, this value is decreased to 7 seconds to avoid stall > results, and other devices prefer set to 15 seconds. > > This simple patch tries to make the selection of this value a bit > more > flexible by being able to set the expire time at config stage. Most > users > can leave the default value set as 30 seconds, others can modify the > value > at config stage if they want lower or bigger values.
I'm not really all that convinced that we really need this - userspace should just be using the flush thing more often, and then it doesn't really matter.
However, maybe that doesn't really matter all that much.
But,
> +config CFG80211_SCAN_RESULT_EXPIRE > + int "Scan completion time" if CFG80211
That should have "if CFG80211 && EXPERT" or something like that - no need to prompt everyone for it.
> + rdev->scan_result_expire = > CONFIG_CFG80211_SCAN_RESULT_EXPIRE;
This is completely pointless - no need to go through runtime like that.
> -#define IEEE80211_SCAN_RESULT_EXPIRE (30 * HZ)
You can just use CONFIG_CFG80211_SCAN_RESULT_EXPIRE * HZ here.
> + __cfg80211_bss_expire(rdev, jiffies - rdev- > >scan_result_expire);
You also completely messed this up because it now depends on HZ.
johannes
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