b43: Add fastpath to b43_mac_suspend()

This adds a fastpath for the common workloads to the MAC suspend flushing.
In common workloads the FIFO flush will take between 100 and 200 microseconds. So we want to avoid calling msleep() in the common case, as it will waste over 800 microseconds + scheduler overhead.

This fastpath will hit in workloads where only small chunks of data are transmitted (downloading a file) or when a TX rate bigger or equal to 24MBit/s is used when transmitting lots of stuff (iperf). So in the commonly used workloads it will basically always hit.

In case the fastpath is not hit, there's no real performance or latency disadvantage from that.

And yes, I measured this. So this is not one of these bad Programmer Likeliness Assumptions that are always wrong. ;)

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Patch version without useless {}

John, please apply to 2.6.26
Stefano, you may port this, if you like to.

Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
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@@ -2340,12 +2340,20 @@ static void b43_mac_suspend(struct b43_w
 		b43_power_saving_ctl_bits(dev, B43_PS_AWAKE);
 		b43_write32(dev, B43_MMIO_MACCTL,
 			    b43_read32(dev, B43_MMIO_MACCTL)
 			    & ~B43_MACCTL_ENABLED);
 		/* force pci to flush the write */
 		b43_read32(dev, B43_MMIO_MACCTL);
+		/* Finally wait for the microcode to flush the fifos. */
+		for (i = 35; i; i--) {
+			tmp = b43_read32(dev, B43_MMIO_GEN_IRQ_REASON);
+			if (tmp & B43_IRQ_MAC_SUSPENDED)
+				goto out;
+			udelay(10);
+		}
+		/* Hm, it seems this will take some time. Use msleep(). */
 		for (i = 40; i; i--) {
 			tmp = b43_read32(dev, B43_MMIO_GEN_IRQ_REASON);
 			if (tmp & B43_IRQ_MAC_SUSPENDED)
 				goto out;
 			msleep(1);
 		}

Ah yeah. Whatever. What was meant it it flushes everything from the host point of view and goes to sleep. Feel free to remove that comment, John. (simply remove the line from the patch before applying it).

Greetings Michael.