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2012-03-15mac80211: Don't sample max throughput rate in minstrel_htHelmut Schaa
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>
2012-03-12mac80211: Disable MCS > 7 in minstrel_ht when STA uses static SMPSHelmut Schaa
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>
2011-11-17minstrel_ht: Remove unused function parametersPatrick Kelle
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>
2011-11-17mac80211: Get rid of search loop for rate group indexHelmut Schaa
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>
2011-11-17mac80211: Check rate->idx before rate->countHelmut Schaa
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>
2011-09-30mac80211: max_tp_rate2 management of minstrel_htLorenzo Bianconi
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>
2011-09-14minstrel_ht: fix Open BA session request floodsChristian Lamparter
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>
2011-08-09mac80211: Don't use EAPOL frames for rate samplingHelmut Schaa
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>
2011-06-01minstrel_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>
2011-05-16Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
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
2011-05-12mac80211: 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>
2011-04-07Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6: Fix common misspellings
2011-03-31Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-28mac80211: fix a crash in minstrel_ht in HT mode with no supported MCS ratesFelix Fietkau
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>
2011-03-14mac80211: Shortcut minstrel_ht rate setup for non-MRR capable devicesHelmut Schaa
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>
2011-03-09mac80211: update minstrel_ht sample rate when probe is setDaniel Halperin
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>
2011-03-04mac80211: Remove redundant preamble and RTS flag setup in minstrel_htHelmut Schaa
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>
2010-12-15mac80211: Add timeout to BA session start APISujith Manoharan
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>
2010-11-24mac80211: avoid aggregation for VO trafficLuis R. Rodriguez
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>
2010-11-15mac80211: minstrel_ht - reduce the overhead of rate samplingFelix Fietkau
- 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>
2010-10-11mac80211: minstrel_ht A-MPDU fixBjörn Smedman
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>
2010-07-26mac80211: freeing the wrong variableDan Carpenter
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>
2010-07-26minstrel_ht: remove unnecessary NULL check in minstrel_ht_update_capsJohn W. Linville
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>
2010-07-02minstrel_ht: fix check for downgrading of top2 rateMing Lei
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>
2010-07-02minstrel_ht: fix updating rate with best probabilityMing Lei
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>
2010-06-24minstrel_ht: make *idx unsigned in minstrel_downgrade_rateJohn W. Linville
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>
2010-06-14mac80211: use RCU for TX aggregationJohannes Berg
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>
2010-06-02mac80211: add the minstrel_ht rate control algorithmFelix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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