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2017-04-28mac80211: make rate control tx status API more extensibleFelix Fietkau
Rename .tx_status_noskb to .tx_status_ext and pass a new on-stack struct ieee80211_tx_status instead of struct ieee80211_tx_info. This struct can be used to pass extra information, e.g. for dynamic tx power control Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2016-12-15mac80211: minstrel: avoid port control frames for samplingThomas Huehn
Makes connections more reliable Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas.huehn@evernet-eg.de> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2016-12-15mac80211: minstrel: store probability variance instead of standard deviationFelix Fietkau
This avoids the costly int_sqrt calls in the statistics update and moves it to the debugfs code instead. This also fixes an overflow in the previous standard deviation calculation. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas.huehn@evernet-eg.de> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2016-12-15mac80211: minstrel: remove cur_prob from debugfsFelix Fietkau
This field is redundant, because it is simply last success divided by last attempt count. Removing it from the rate stats struct saves about 1.2 KiB per HT station. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2016-04-12cfg80211: remove enum ieee80211_bandJohannes Berg
This enum is already perfectly aliased to enum nl80211_band, and the only reason for it is that we get IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS out of it. There's no really good reason to not declare the number of bands in nl80211 though, so do that and remove the cfg80211 one. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2016-02-02mac80211: minstrel: Change expected throughput unit back to KbpsSven Eckelmann
The change from cur_tp to the function minstrel_get_tp_avg/minstrel_ht_get_tp_avg changed the unit used for the current throughput. For example in minstrel_ht the correct conversion between them would be: mrs->cur_tp / 10 == minstrel_ht_get_tp_avg(..). This factor 10 must also be included in the calculation of minstrel_get_expected_throughput and minstrel_ht_get_expected_throughput to return values with the unit [Kbps] instead of [10Kbps]. Otherwise routing algorithms like B.A.T.M.A.N. V will make incorrect decision based on these values. Its kernel based implementation expects expected_throughput always to have the unit [Kbps] and not sometimes [10Kbps] and sometimes [Kbps]. The same requirement has iw or olsrdv2's nl80211 based statistics module which retrieve the same data via NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_BITRATE. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 6a27b2c40b48 ("mac80211: restructure per-rate throughput calculation into function") Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-08-13mac80211: fix invalid read in minstrel_sort_best_tp_rates()Adrien Schildknecht
At the last iteration of the loop, j may equal zero and thus tp_list[j - 1] causes an invalid read. Change the logic of the loop so that j - 1 is always >= 0. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Adrien Schildknecht <adrien+dev@schischi.me> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-04-01mac80211: add standard deviation to Minstrel statsThomas Huehn
This patch adds the statistical descriptor "standard deviation" to better describe the current properties of Minstrel and Minstrel-HTs success probability distribution. The standard deviation (SD) is calculated as exponential weighted moving standard deviation (EWMSD) and its current value is added as new column in all rc_stats (in debugfs). Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de> Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-04-01mac80211: add max lossless throughput per rateThomas Huehn
This patch adds the new statistic "maximum possible lossless throughput" to Minstrels and Minstrel-HTs rc_stats (in debugfs). This enables comprehensive comparison between current per-rate throughput and max. achievable per-rate throughput. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de> Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-04-01mac80211: restructure per-rate throughput calculation into functionThomas Huehn
This patch moves Minstrels and Minstrel-HTs per-rate throughput calculation (EWMA(thr)) into a dedicated function to be called. Therefore the variable "unsigned int cur_tp" within struct "minstrel_rate_stats" becomes obsolete. and is removed to free up its space. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de> Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-04-01mac80211: improve Minstrel variable & function namingThomas Huehn
This patch ensures a consistent usage of variable names for type "minstrel_rate_stats" to be used as "mrs" and from type minstrel_rate as "mr" across both Minstrel & Minstrel-HT. In addition some variable and function names got changed to more meaningful ones. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de> Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-04-01mac80211: unify Minstrel & Minstrel-HTs calculation of rate statisticsThomas Huehn
This patch unifies the calculation of Minstrels and Minstrel-HTs per-rate statistic. The new common function minstrel_calc_rate_stats() is called when a statistic update is performed. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de> Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-02-24mac80211/minstrel: fix !x!=0 confusionJiri Slaby
Commit 06d961a8e210 ("mac80211/minstrel: use the new rate control API") inverted the condition 'if (msr->sample_limit != 0)' to 'if (!msr->sample_limit != 0)'. But it is confusing both to people and compilers (gcc5): net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c: In function 'minstrel_get_rate': net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c:376:26: warning: logical not is only applied to the left hand side of comparison if (!msr->sample_limit != 0) ^ Let there be only 'if (!msr->sample_limit)'. Fixes: 06d961a8e210 ("mac80211/minstrel: use the new rate control API") Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-12-19mac80211: minstrel: reduce size of struct minstrel_rate_statsFelix Fietkau
On minstrel_ht, the size of the per-sta struct is almost 18k, making it an order-3 allocation. A few fields inside the per-rate statistics are bigger than they need to be. This patch reduces the size enough to cut down the per-sta struct to about 13k (order-2 allocation). Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-11-28mac80211: minstrel: switch to .tx_status_noskbFelix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-10-31mac80211: fix spelling errorsStephen Hemminger
Use codespell to find spelling errors. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-09-11mac80211: Unify rate statistic variables between Minstrel & Minstrel_HTThomas Huehn
Minstrel and Mintrel_HT used there own structs to keep track of rate statistics. Unify those variables in struct minstrel_rate_states and move it to rc80211_minstrel.h for common usage. This is a clean-up patch to prepare Minstrel and Minstrel_HT codebase for upcoming TPC. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de> Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-05-21mac80211: export the expected throughputAntonio Quartulli
Add get_expected_throughput() API to mac80211 so that each driver can implement its own version based on the RC algorithm they are using (might be using an HW RC algo). The API returns a value expressed in Kbps. Also, add the new get_expected_throughput() member to the rate_control_ops structure in order to be able to query the RC algorithm (this patch provides an implementation of this API for both minstrel and minstrel_ht). The related member in the station_info object is now filled accordingly when dumping a station. Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-04mac80211: make rate control ops constJohannes Berg
Change the code to allow making all the rate control ops const, nothing ever needs to change them. Also change all drivers to make use of this and mark the ops const. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-12-18mac80211: fix checkpatch errorsWeilong Chen
Fix a number of different checkpatch errors. Signed-off-by: Weilong Chen <chenweilong@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-11-25mac80211: minstrels: spare numerous useless calls to get_random_bytesKarl Beldan
ATM, only the first array value returned by get_random_bytes is used. This change moves the call to get_random_bytes from the nested loop it is in to its parent. While at it, replace get_random_bytes with prandom_bytes since PRNs are way enough for the selection process. After this, minstrel_ht reclaims 80 PR-bytes instead of 640 R-bytes. minstrels use sample tables to probe different rates in a randomized manner. minstrel_ht inits one single sample table upon registration (during subsys_initcalls) and minstrel uses one per STA addition in minstrel. Signed-off-by: Karl Beldan <karl.beldan@rivierawaves.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-09-26mac80211: add fixed_rate management to minstrel rcLorenzo Bianconi
Add the capability to use a fixed modulation rate to minstrel rate controller Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi83@gmail.com> Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-08-01Merge branch 'for-john' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next
2013-07-16mac80211/minstrel: fix NULL pointer dereference issueFelix Fietkau
When priv_sta == NULL, mi->prev_sample is dereferenced too early. Move the assignment further down, after the rate_control_send_low call. Reported-by: Krzysztof Mazur <krzysiek@podlesie.net> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10 Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-07-16mac80211: fix timing for 5 MHz and 10 MHz channelsSimon Wunderlich
according to IEEE 802.11-2012 section 18, various timings change when using 5 MHz and 10 MHz. Reflect this by using a "shift" when calculating durations. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
2013-07-16mac80211/rc80211: add chandef to rate initializationSimon Wunderlich
5 and 10 MHz support needs to know the current operating channel width, add the chandef to the rate control API. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
2013-04-22mac80211/minstrel: use the new rate control APIFelix Fietkau
Pass the rate selection table to mac80211 from minstrel_update_stats. Only rates for sample attempts are set in info->control.rates, with deferred sampling, only the second slot gets changed. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-04-16mac80211: fix CTS protection handlingFelix Fietkau
The rates[0] CTS and RTS flags are only set after rate control has been called, so minstrel cannot use them to for setting the number of retries. This patch adds two new flags to explicitly indicate RTS/CTS use. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06mac80211: improve minstrels rate sorting by means of throughput & probabilityThomas Huehn
This patch improves the way minstrel sorts rates according to throughput and success probability. 3 FOR-loops across the entire rate set in function minstrel_update_stats() which where used to determine the fastest, second fastest and most robust rate are reduced to 1 FOR-loop. The sorted list of rates according throughput is extended to the best four rates as we need them in upcoming joint rate and power control. The sorting is done via the new function minstrel_sort_best_tp_rates(). The most robust rate selection is aligned with minstrel_ht's approach. Once any success probability is above 95% the one with the highest throughput is chosen as most robust rate. If success probabilities of all rates are below 95%, the rate with the highest succ. prob. is elected as most robust one Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06mac80211: treat minstrel success probabilities below 10% as implausibleThomas Huehn
Based on minstrel_ht this patch treats success probabilities below 10% as implausible values for throughput calculation in minstrel's statistics. Current throughput per rate with such a low success probability is reset to 0 MBit/s. Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06mac80211: add lowest rate into minstrel's random rate sampling tableThomas Huehn
While minstrel bootstraps and fills the success probabilities of each rate the lowest rate has typically a very high success probability (often 100% in our tests). Its statistics are never updated but considered to setup the mrr chain. In our tests we see that especially the 3rd mrr stage (which is that rate providing highest success probability) is filled with the lowest rate because its initial high sucess probability is never updated. By design the 4th mrr stage is filled with the lowest rate so often 3rd and 4th mrr stage are equal. This patch follows minstrels general approach of assuming as little as possible about rate dependencies. Consequently we include the lowest rate into the random sampling table to get balanced up-to-date statistics of all rates and therefore balanced decisions. Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06mac80211: extend minstrel's rate sampling to avoid unsampled ratesThomas Huehn
Minstrel's decision which rate should be directly sampled within the 1st mrr stage is limited to such rates faster than the current max throughput rate. All rates below the current max. throughput rate are indirectly sampled via the 2nd mrr stage. This approach leads to deprecated per rate statistics and therfore a deprecated mrr chain setup. This patch uses the sampling approach from minstrel_ht. A counter is added to sum all indirect sample attempts per rate. After 20 indirect sampling attempts the rate is directly sampled within the 1st mrr stage. Therefore more up-to-date statistics for all rates are maintained and used to setup the mrr chain. Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06mac80211: add documentation and verbose variable names inThomas Huehn
Add documentation and more verbose variable names to minstrel's multi-rate-retry setup within function minstrel_get_rate() to increase the readability of the algorithm. Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06mac80211: merge value scaling macros of minstrel_ht and minstrelThomas Huehn
Both minstrel versions use individual ways to scale up integer values to perform calculations. Merge minstrel_ht's scaling macros into minstrels header file and use them in both minstrel versions. Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06mac80211: merge EWMA calculation of minstrel_ht and minstrelThomas Huehn
Both rate control algorithms (minstrel and minstrel_ht) calculate averages based on EWMA. Shift function minstrel_ewma() into rc80211_minstrel.h and make use of it in both minstrel version. Also shift the default EWMA level (75%) definition to the header file and clean up variable usage. Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-13mac80211/minstrel_ht: add support for using CCK ratesFelix Fietkau
When MCS rates start to get bad in 2.4 GHz because of long range or strong interference, CCK rates can be a lot more robust. This patch adds a pseudo MCS group containing CCK rates (long preamble in the lower 4 slots, short preamble in the upper slots). Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> [make minstrel_ht_get_stats static] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-12-10minstrel: update stats after processing statusJohannes Berg
Instead of updating stats before sending a packet, update them after processing the packet's status. This makes minstrel in line with minstrel_ht. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-04-13mac80211: remove hw.conf.channel usage where possibleMichal Kazior
Removes hw.conf.channel usage from the following functions: * ieee80211_mandatory_rates * ieee80211_sta_get_rates * ieee80211_frame_duration * ieee80211_rts_duration * ieee80211_ctstoself_duration This is in preparation for multi-channel operation. Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-11minstrel: Remove unused function parameter in calc_rate_durations()Patrick Kelle
Signed-off-by: Patrick Kelle <patrick.kelle81@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-06-01minstrel_ht: fixed rate mode through debugfsZefir Kurtisi
Found several threads about fixed rate mode in minstrel_ht for test environments, but no patches for it. This patch provides such a mode through debugfs. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-05-12mac80211: fix contention time computation in minstrel, minstrel_htDaniel Halperin
When transmitting a frame, the transmitter waits a random number of slots between 0 and cw. Thus, the contention time is (cw / 2) * t_slot which we can represent instead as (cw * t_slot) >> 1. Also fix a few other accounting bugs around contention time, and add comments. Signed-off-by: Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-07-26minstrel: don't complain about feedback for unrequested ratesJohn W. Linville
"It's not problematic if minstrel gets feedback for rates that it doesn't have in its list, it should just ignore it. - Felix" Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
2010-04-11Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_main.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c net/core/ethtool.c net/mac80211/scan.c
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo
implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-10minstrel: make the rate control ops reusable from another rc implementationFelix Fietkau
This patch makes it possible to reuse the minstrel rate control ops from another rate control module. This is useful in preparing for the new 802.11n implementation of minstrel, which will reuse the old code for legacy stations. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-16rc80211_minstrel: fix contention window calculationPavel Roskin
The contention window is supposed to be a power of two minus one, i.e. 15, 31, 63, 127... minstrel_rate_init() forgets to subtract 1, so the sequence becomes 15, 32, 66, 134... Bug reported by Dan Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu> Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20mac80211: Decouple fail_avg stats used by mesh from rate control algorithm.Javier Cardona
Mesh uses the tx failure average to compute the (m)path metric. This used to be done inside the rate control module. This patch breaks the dependency between the mesh stack and the rate control algorithm. Mesh will now work independently of the chosen rate control algorithm. The mesh stack keeps a moving average of the average transmission losses for each mesh peer station. If the fail average exceeds a certain threshold, the peer link is marked as broken. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14mac80211: Early detection of broken mesh paths when using minstrel.Javier Cardona
This change triggers a path discovery as soon as the link quality degrades below a certain threshold. This results in a faster path recovery time than by simply relying on the periodic path refresh mechanism to detect broken links. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14mac80211: Update the station failed frames average when minstrel is used.Javier Cardona
The fail_avg value is used to compute the mesh metric, and was only being set by the pid rate control module. This fixes the mesh path selection mechanism for cards that use mistrel for rate control. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24mac80211: add helper for management / no-ack frame rate decisionLuis R. Rodriguez
All current rate control algorithms agree to send management and no-ack frames at the lowest rate. They also agree to do this when sta and the private rate control data is NULL. We add a hlper to mac80211 for this and simplify the rate control algorithm code. Developers wishing to make enhancements to rate control algorithms are for broadcast/multicast can opt to not use this in their gate_rate() mac80211 callback. Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Cc: ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org> Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: Derek Smithies <derek@indranet.co.nz> Cc: Chittajit Mitra <Chittajit.Mitra@Atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>