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Sylvain Roger Rieunier 2a9e6c5887 minstrel_ht: enable frame aggregation for fixed rate
When sample_idx is set to a value other than -1 it activates
the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_RATE_CTRL_PROBE flag which disables
frame aggregation. To allow frame aggregation during fixed
rate it is necessary to set max_tp_rate, max_tp_rate2 and
max_prob_rate instead of sample_idx.

Signed-off-by: Sylvain Roger Rieunier <sylvain.roger.rieunier@gmail.com>
[reword commit message a bit]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-12 12:10:48 +02:00
Thomas Huehn 472dd35ccb mac80211: correct size the argument to kzalloc in minstrel_ht
msp has type struct minstrel_ht_sta_priv not struct minstrel_ht_sta.

(This incorporates the fixup originally posted as "mac80211: fix kzalloc
memory corruption introduced in minstrel_ht". -- JWL)

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-07-09 14:59:58 -04:00
Michal Kazior 4ee73f338a mac80211: remove hw.conf.channel usage where possible
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>
2012-04-13 14:32:50 -04:00
Johannes Berg 64f68e5d15 mac80211: remove channel type argument from rate_update
The channel type argument to the rate_update()
callback isn't really the correct way to give
the rate control algorithm about the desired
RX bandwidth of the peer.

Remove this argument, and instead update the
STA capabilities with 20/40 appropriately. The
SMPS update done by this callback works in the
same way, so this makes the callback cleaner.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-10 14:54:08 -04:00
Helmut Schaa ba6fa29c6d mac80211: Don't sample max throughput rate in minstrel_ht
The current max throughput rate is known to be good as otherwise it
wouldn't be the max throughput rate. Since rate sampling can introduce
some overhead (by adding RTS for example or due to not aggregating the
frame) don't sample the max throughput rate.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-03-15 13:40:33 -04:00
Helmut Schaa e9219779f9 mac80211: Disable MCS > 7 in minstrel_ht when STA uses static SMPS
Disable multi stream rates (MCS > 7) when a STA is in static SMPS mode
since it has only one active rx chain. Hence, it doesn't even make
sense to sample multi stream rates.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-03-12 14:19:39 -04:00
Patrick Kelle 6048d76384 minstrel_ht: Remove unused function parameters
Remove unused function parameters in the following functions:
minstrel_calc_rate_ewma()
minstrel_ht_calc_tp()
minstrel_aggr_check()
minstrel_ht_set_rate()

Signed-off-by: Patrick Kelle <patrick.kelle81@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-17 15:43:58 -05:00
Helmut Schaa a5f69d94d8 mac80211: Get rid of search loop for rate group index
Finding the group index for a specific rate is done by looping through
all groups and returning if the correct one is found. This code is
called for each tx'ed frame and thus it makes sense to reduce its
runtime.

Do this by calculating the group index by this formula based on the SGI
and HT40 flags as well as the stream number:

idx = (HT40 * 2 * MINSTREL_MAX_STREAMS) +
      (SGI * MINSTREL_MAX_STREAMS) +
      (streams - 1)

Hence, the groups are ordered by th HT40 flag first, then by the SGI
flag and afterwards by the number of used streams.

This should reduce the runtime of minstrel_ht_get_group_idx
considerable.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-17 15:43:57 -05:00
Helmut Schaa b79296beeb mac80211: Check rate->idx before rate->count
The drivers are not required to fill in rate->count if rate->idx is set
to -1. Hence, we should first check rate->idx before accessing
rate->count.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-17 15:43:56 -05:00
Lorenzo Bianconi 89888e368e mac80211: max_tp_rate2 management of minstrel_ht
I noticed a possible issue in the max_tp_rate2 management of
minstrel_ht. In particular, if we look up just among max_tp_rate2 of
each group it will be possible that the selected rate will not be the
mcs with second maximum throughput. I wrote this simple patch.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi83@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30 15:16:25 -04:00
Christian Lamparter 64ed5cf013 minstrel_ht: fix Open BA session request floods
Minstrel HT tries very hard to establish a BA session with
each peer once there's some data on the way. However the
stack does not inform minstrel if an aggregation session
is already in place, so it keeps trying and wastes good
cycles in the tx status path.

[ 8149.946393] Open BA session requested for $AP tid 0
[ 8150.048765] Open BA session requested for $AP tid 0
[ 8150.174509] Open BA session requested for $AP tid 0
[ 8150.274376] Open BA session requested for $AP tid 0
...

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-14 13:56:23 -04:00
Helmut Schaa 6de062ced9 mac80211: Don't use EAPOL frames for rate sampling
Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-09 15:52:02 -04:00
Zefir Kurtisi 24f7580e85 minstrel_ht: fixed rate mode through debugfs
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>
2011-06-01 15:12:29 -04:00
John W. Linville e00cf3b9eb Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-tx.c
	net/mac80211/sta_info.h
2011-05-16 19:32:19 -04:00
Daniel Halperin 8fddddff0a mac80211: fix contention time computation in minstrel, minstrel_ht
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>
2011-05-12 14:10:48 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 42933bac11 Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6:
  Fix common misspellings
2011-04-07 11:14:49 -07:00
Lucas De Marchi 25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Felix Fietkau 4dc217df68 mac80211: fix a crash in minstrel_ht in HT mode with no supported MCS rates
When a client connects in HT mode but does not provide any valid MCS
rates, the function that finds the next sample rate gets stuck in an
infinite loop.
Fix this by falling back to legacy rates if no usable MCS rates are found.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-28 15:42:01 -04:00
Helmut Schaa cf28d7934c mac80211: Shortcut minstrel_ht rate setup for non-MRR capable devices
Devices without multi rate retry support won't be able to use all rates
as specified by mintrel_ht. Hence, we can simply skip setting up further
rates as the devices will only use the first one.

Also add a special case for devices with only two possible tx rates. We
use sample_rate -> max_prob_rate for sampling and max_tp_rate ->
max_prob_rate by default.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-14 14:46:58 -04:00
Daniel Halperin 8d5eab5aa6 mac80211: update minstrel_ht sample rate when probe is set
Waiting until the status is received can cause the same rate to be
probed multiple times consecutively.

Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-09 16:10:58 -05:00
Helmut Schaa 9d468d2269 mac80211: Remove redundant preamble and RTS flag setup in minstrel_ht
mac80211 does the same afterwards anyway. Hence, just drop
this redundant code.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-04 14:06:50 -05:00
Sujith Manoharan bd2ce6e43f mac80211: Add timeout to BA session start API
Allow drivers or rate control algorithms to specify BlockAck session
timeout when initiating an ADDBA transaction. This is useful in cases
where maintaining persistent BA sessions does not incur any overhead.

The current timeout value of 5000 TUs is retained for all non ath9k/ath9k_htc
drivers.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-15 17:03:59 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 48124d1a91 mac80211: avoid aggregation for VO traffic
This should help with latency issues which can happen when
using aggregation.

Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: Matt Smith <matt.smith@atheros.com>
Cc: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-24 16:19:36 -05:00
Felix Fietkau c7317e41df mac80211: minstrel_ht - reduce the overhead of rate sampling
- reduce the number of retransmission attempts for sample rates
- sample lower rates less often
- do not use RTS/CTS for sampling frames
- increase the time between sampling attempts

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-15 13:24:21 -05:00
Björn Smedman 15d46f38df mac80211: minstrel_ht A-MPDU fix
This patch fixes two problems with the minstrel_ht rate control
algorithms handling of A-MPDU frames:

1. The ampdu_len field of the tx status is not always initialized for
non-HT frames (and it would probably be unreasonable to require all
drivers to do so). This could cause rate control statistics to be
corrupted. We now trust the ampdu_len and ampdu_ack_len fields only when
the frame is marked with the IEEE80211_TX_STAT_AMPDU flag.

2. Successful transmission attempts where only recognized when the A-MPDU
subframe carrying the rate control status information was marked with the
IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK flag. If this information happed to be carried on a
frame that failed to be ACKed then the other subframes (which may have
succeeded) where not correctly registered. We now update rate control
statistics regardless of whether the subframe carrying the information was
ACKed or not.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Björn Smedman <bjorn.smedman@venatech.se>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-11 15:04:24 -04:00
Dan Carpenter 7e988014cd mac80211: freeing the wrong variable
The intent was to free "msp->ratelist" here.  "msp->sample_table" is
always NULL at this point.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-07-26 15:32:41 -04:00
John W. Linville 00fc90c886 minstrel_ht: remove unnecessary NULL check in minstrel_ht_update_caps
If sta is NULL, we will have problems long before we get here...

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
2010-07-26 15:09:04 -04:00
Ming Lei ecc3d5ae17 minstrel_ht: fix check for downgrading of top2 rate
The check should be against current top2 rate, instead of
current top rate.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-07-02 13:44:40 -04:00
Ming Lei 009271f918 minstrel_ht: fix updating rate with best probability
The throughput should be considered when updating rate
with best probability.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-07-02 13:44:39 -04:00
John W. Linville d5ece2150a minstrel_ht: make *idx unsigned in minstrel_downgrade_rate
net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c:440:46: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c:440:46:    expected int *idx
net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c:440:46:    got unsigned int *<noident>
net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c:446:46: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c:446:46:    expected int *idx
net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c:446:46:    got unsigned int *<noident>

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
2010-06-24 15:41:26 -04:00
Johannes Berg a622ab72b4 mac80211: use RCU for TX aggregation
Currently we allocate some memory for each TX
aggregation session and additionally keep a
state bitmap indicating the state it is in.
By using RCU to protect the pointer, moving
the state into the structure and some locking
trickery we can avoid locking when the TX agg
session is fully operational.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-14 15:39:27 -04:00
Felix Fietkau ec8aa669b8 mac80211: add the minstrel_ht rate control algorithm
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-02 16:12:59 -04:00