[PATCH] ath11k: avoid unnecessary BH disable lock in STA kickout event

[Kalle Valo]

Karthikeyan Periyasamy <quic_periyasa at quicinc.com> wrote:

> In STA kickout event processing, the peer object is protected
> under spin lock BH. Release this lock after picking up the vdev_id
> from the peer object instead after ieee80211_report_low_ack().
> This will minimize the lock hold period which will improve
> performance since base_lock is used across the data path.
> This was found in code review.
> 
> Tested-on: IPQ8074 hw2.0 AHB WLAN.HK.2.5.0.1-00729-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-3 v2
> 
> Signed-off-by: Karthikeyan Periyasamy <quic_periyasa at quicinc.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo at codeaurora.org>

Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks.

4c375743c5fe ath11k: avoid unnecessary BH disable lock in STA kickout event

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