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Hauke Mehrtens 8524982847 ssb: fix unaligned access to mac address
The mac address should be aligned to u16 to prevent an unaligned access
in drivers/ssb/pci.c where it is casted to __be16.

Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2013-03-06 16:24:22 -05:00
David S. Miller 930df2dfc7 Merge branch 'for-davem' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
John W. Linville says:

====================
This time just passing along a big batch of fixes from Johannes...

For the mac80211 bits:

"Here I have fixes from Ben Greear for stray work items when deleting
interfaces, another idle handling fix from Felix, a fix from Marco ro a
mesh PS buffering crash and I have a fix for the VHT MCS calculation in
association request frames and more nl80211 feature advertising removal
as well as a workaround to increase the dump size if the SKB overhead is
too large. For 3.10 I already have a complete fix queued, but that also
requires (simple) userspace changes."

And for the iwlwifi bits:

"The patches from Dor fix a bunch of calibration issues in the new MVM
driver, and Emmanuel has a number of fixes there as well. Also, we
decided to disable 8k A-MSDU by default, so that's in there. My own
patches are addressing an issue we found with the new devices but that
seems to also exist on older ones, the DMA writeback the devices do can
be delayed and cause issues. The fix is unfortunately relatively large
and depends on two other changes (to not be hugely conflicting), but I
think it's still worth it at this point."

As Johannes says, it is a bit large.  But I hope it is still early
enough in the cycle to make that worthwhile.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-06 15:33:15 -05:00
Sathya Perla c5b3ad4c67 be2net: use CSR-BAR SEMAPHORE reg for BE2/BE3
The SLIPORT_SEMAPHORE register shadowed in the
config-space may not reflect the correct POST stage after
an EEH reset in BE2/3; it may return FW_READY state even though
FW is not ready. This causes the driver to prematurely
poll the FW mailbox and fail.

For BE2/3 use the CSR-BAR/0xac instead.

Reported-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-06 14:57:17 -05:00
Jason Wang f422d2a04f net: docs: document multiqueue tuntap API
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-06 14:56:10 -05:00
David S. Miller 70e21fe4fc Merge branch 'sfc-3.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bwh/sfc
Ben Hutchings says:

====================
Fix regressions introduced by the last set of fixes (sorry):

1. Potential deadlock when disabling TX queues.
2. RX was broken on architectures other than x86 and powerpc.

I still expect to send one more bug fix for 3.9, but as it sometimes
takes days to reproduce the bug it's going to take a couple of weeks of
testing to be confident that it's really fixed.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-06 14:51:04 -05:00
Ben Hutchings c73e787a8d sfc: Correct efx_rx_buffer::page_offset when EFX_PAGE_IP_ALIGN != 0
RX DMA buffers start at an offset of EFX_PAGE_IP_ALIGN bytes from the
start of a cache line.  This offset obviously needs to be included in
the virtual address, but this was missed in commit b590ace09d
('sfc: Fix efx_rx_buf_offset() in the presence of swiotlb') since
EFX_PAGE_IP_ALIGN is equal to 0 on both x86 and powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2013-03-06 17:57:25 +00:00
Ben Hutchings 35205b211c sfc: Disable soft interrupt handling during efx_device_detach_sync()
efx_device_detach_sync() locks all TX queues before marking the device
detached and thus disabling further TX scheduling.  But it can still
be interrupted by TX completions which then result in TX scheduling in
soft interrupt context.  This will deadlock when it tries to acquire
a TX queue lock that efx_device_detach_sync() already acquired.

To avoid deadlock, we must use netif_tx_{,un}lock_bh().

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2013-03-06 17:57:24 +00:00
Emmanuel Grumbach 25b9ea5c79 iwlwifi: mvm: the SCD byte count is a TLV flag
The SCD byte count layout is decided by the configuration
done in fw, it is then logical to export it as a TLV flag
and not per HW SKU.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:48:03 +01:00
Amnon Paz f9477c17c2 iwlwifi: fix indirect write bug
Fix a bug in writing to indirect (periphery) registers; although
writes seem successful the data is not written to the desired
address). Also fix address mask for HBUS_TARG_PRPH_RADDR and
HBUS_TARG_PRPH_WADDR registers.

Signed-off-by: Amnon Paz <amnonX.paz@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:48:02 +01:00
Emmanuel Grumbach 490953ac34 iwlwifi: move firmware restart debugfs hook to op_mode
This allows to test fw restart flow. The hook in transport
layer doesn't really make the fw assert. Moving this hook
to the op_mode allows to use the fw API to actually send a
host command that will make the fw assert.

Change the restart_fw module parameter to be a boolean on
the way.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:48:01 +01:00
Emmanuel Grumbach 6bfcb7e88c iwlwifi: mvm: update firmware API - MAC ID in RX
The firmware tells the driver to what MACs the received frame
belongs (based on the time slot in which it was received).

Note that there can be several MACs if they share the same
binding.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:48:01 +01:00
Emmanuel Grumbach 1094234284 iwlwifi: mvm: export last bt_notif through debugfs
This will allow to track how BT core updates the driver.
This is required to debug the BT Coexistence mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:48:00 +01:00
Emmanuel Grumbach 7da052b818 iwlwifi: mvm: update SMPS when BT gets active
When BT traffic load gets higher, we want to avoid using the
shared antenna. In order to do so, we need to tell the AP
that we don't support MIMO any more, or at least not all
the time: in short, use the SMPS to achieve this.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:47:59 +01:00
Emmanuel Grumbach f421f9c3b2 iwlwifi: mvm: handle BT-coex notification
The BT-Coex notification is sent by the fw when there are
updates wrt. BT activity. Driver action might be taken
based on the info in this notification.

For now, update the Ack/Cts_kill_msk if HID / SCO / A2DP
profiles are active.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:47:59 +01:00
Emmanuel Grumbach 931d416049 iwlwifi: mvm: begin basic BT-Coex implementation
Send the PRIO table before the calibrations. This table
tells the fw what priority to give to what (WiFi / BT)
according to events.

Send a hardcoded BT_COEX command to the fw to enable basic
BT coexistence.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:47:58 +01:00
Emmanuel Grumbach fb3ceb8175 iwlwifi: mvm: add BT Coex FW API
This is the API to tell the fw to handle the BT Coexistence.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:47:57 +01:00
Emmanuel Grumbach 3b4612fbd3 iwlwifi: mvm: add CARD_STATE_NOTIFICATION to the cmd strings
Then the transport can print it nicely in its debug prints.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:47:57 +01:00
Johannes Berg 48e29340d5 iwlwifi: export symbols only conditionally
If all the pieces of iwlwifi are built into the kernel
then there's no need for it to export its symbols to
other modules, so prevent that.

Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:47:56 +01:00
Johannes Berg 1218206e9d iwlwifi: allow selecting only MVM driver
Now that we have two drivers (DVM and MVM) stop selecting
the DVM one (but make it default) and allow enabling only
the MVM driver if so desired. Add a warning for the case
of having neither DVM nor MVM enabled -- that's useless.

Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:47:56 +01:00
Dor Shaish 1fd4afe2d1 iwlwifi: mvm: Change NVM default section read size
Signed-off-by: Dor Shaish <dor.shaish@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:47:55 +01:00
Johannes Berg 506a81e6ba iwlwifi: mvm: don't read system time when modifying AP/GO MAC
When modifying a MAC, we update its beacon system time which
is taken as a base to calculate TBTT. The firmware doesn't use
the new timestamp because the time is never used after the MAC
and broadcast station were added, but it is safer to not rely
on this and avoids the overhead of reading the register every
time the MAC is updated.

Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:47:54 +01:00
Emmanuel Grumbach b1f553c748 iwlwifi: make device configuration bus agnostic
Newer devices can work on different buses. This means that
their configuration can be shared between different buses.
Hence the configuration structures should exported to all
the buses and not only to PCIE. Change this.

Note that this requires all the fields to be the same
amongst the buses. If differences will appear, we can always
define a part that is bus dependent. Today, this is not
needed.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:47:54 +01:00
Emmanuel Grumbach 5e4fbe4cc0 iwlwifi: dvm: pad iwl_compressed_ba_resp
All the data coming from the fw must have a length that is
multiple of 4.
This doesn't change anything to the way we handle the
notification.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:47:53 +01:00
Eytan Lifshitz 33158fefc8 iwlwifi: mvm: advertise VHT capabilities
Update the NVM parsing functions to add VHT capabilities;
they are only added for 5 GHz, of course. This assumes
that all devices with NVM reading (rather than EEPROM)
that support 5 GHz have VHT, which is true right now.

Signed-off-by: Eytan Lifshitz <eytan.lifshitz@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:47:52 +01:00
Johannes Berg 5bc5aaad40 iwlwifi: mvm: set up initial SMPS/NSS station info
When a station is added, we need to tell the firmware what
the SMPS settings and number of streams are. After having
the initial data, the firmware will track future changes
by itself.

Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:47:52 +01:00
Johannes Berg f0c2646af4 iwlwifi: mvm: implement remote wake
With remote wake, the firmware creates a TCP connection
and sends some configurable data on it, until a special
TCP data packet from the server is received that triggers
a wakeup. The configuration is a bit tricky because it is
based on packet pattern matching but this is hidden in
the driver and the exposed API in cfg80211 is just based
on the required TCP connection parameters.

Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:47:51 +01:00
Wei Yongjun ba5295f8b2 iwlwifi: convert to use simple_open()
This removes an open coded simple_open() function and
replaces file operations references to the function
with simple_open() instead.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:47:51 +01:00
Johannes Berg 9047e4ad43 iwlwifi: use __get_str in tracing
Instead of using (char *)__get_dynamic_array use
__get_str. The latter is actually a macro that
expands to the former in the code, but trace-cmd
in userspace can parse __get_str only.

Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:47:27 +01:00
Johannes Berg f7546c76f7 iwlwifi: support DSSS/CCK mode in 40 MHz
All hardware after 4965 supports this. It's likely that
it wasn't set because for 4965 it was irrelevant (HT is
only supported on 5 GHz there) and then never updated.

Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:47:26 +01:00
Emmanuel Grumbach e3d9e7ce4c iwlwifi: mvm: support IEEE80211_AMPDU_TX_STOP_FLUSH
mac80211 tells us when we need to dump the frames from the
AGG queue instead of releasing them as single MPDUs.
Being able to differentiate between the different cases
(IEEE80211_AMPDU_TX_STOP_*) allows us to handle races better.

When the station is removed, mac80211 asks to flush and
removes the station right away.
This allows to avoid a case where we still have frames in
AGG queues, but the station has been remove already.

Note that we can have frames on the shared queues, but this
is not a problem: the station in the fw will be kept until
all the frames on the shared queues have been drained.
AGG queues are a special case since they are dynamically
allocated.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:47:26 +01:00
Ilan Peer 831e85f3fe iwlwifi: mvm: Add support for additional addresses
Use the number of addresses (max 5) from the NVM
instead of limiting to 2 artificially.

Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:47:23 +01:00
Beni Lev 6e6cc9f319 iwlwifi: disable greenfield transmissions as a workaround
There's a bug that causes the rate scaling to get stuck
when it has to use single-stream rates with a peer that
can do GF and SGI; the two are incompatible so we can't
use them together, but that causes the algorithm to not
work at all, it always rejects updates.

Disable greenfield for now to prevent that problem. The
MVM driver currently only works on devices that don't
support greenfield anyway, but better be safe and not
allow us to forget about this.

Signed-off-by: Beni Lev <beni.lev@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:47:03 +01:00
Beni Lev f4a7dfa3f2 iwlwifi: 7000: disable HT greenfield support
The 7000 series devices don't support HT greenfield mode
so don't advertise or use it.

Signed-off-by: Beni Lev <beni.lev@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:47:02 +01:00
Ilan Peer 1dcd15eed0 iwlwifi: mvm: Update MAC context filter flags
1. For P2P Device filter in only probe requests.
2. For station mode filter in all group cast frames,
   and in addition beacons as long as we are not associated.
3. For AP/GO filter in all group cast and in addition probe
   requests.

Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:47:01 +01:00
Dor Shaish cc7ee2bab3 iwlwifi: mvm: don't use cts to self
The current fw doesn't currently support cts to self. There
is a bug in the fw that prevents us from using cts to self.
Use full protection (including RTS) for now.

Signed-off-by: Dor Shaish <dor.shaish@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:47:01 +01:00
Emmanuel Grumbach 80d8565557 iwlwifi: mvm: free AGG queue when we STA is removed
When we stop an AGG session, we need to look at the sequence
numbers in in the private area of the ieee80211_sta struct.
This allows us to know is the queue is empty. To get access
to this private area, we use fw_id_to_mac_id that maps
sta_id (index of the STA in fw table) to ieee80211_sta.

When the STA exists in fw, but not in mac80211, we set
an ERR ptr in fw_id_to_mac_id.

But if we first set an ERR ptr to fw_id_to_mac_id, and only
then flush the queues, then we won't be able to access the
sequence numbers in ieee80211_sta from the reclaim flow.
This means that we will never be able to release an AGG
queue when a station is deleted.

So first, flush the queue. That will let the reclaim flow
call iwl_mvm_check_ratid_empty which will disable the AGG
queue as needed, and only then, remove the mapping in
fw_id_to_mac_id.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:47:00 +01:00
Emmanuel Grumbach 5d158efa55 iwlwifi: mvm: respect disable Tx AGG parameter
We didn't check that we allowed to start Tx AGG. This can
possibly be avoided by a module parameter. Fix that.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:46:59 +01:00
Emmanuel Grumbach 410dc5aa59 iwlwifi: a few fixes in license
7000.c was released as GPL only by mistake: it should be
dual licensed - GPL / BSD.
The file that contains the license in the kernel is COPYING
and not LICENSE.GPL.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:46:59 +01:00
Johannes Berg 41effc2a6c Merge remote-tracking branch 'iwlwifi-fixes/master' into HEAD
This is needed to resolve some conflicts that would otherwise
happen between wireless-next and the code here.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:46:43 +01:00
Thomas Pedersen 87f59c70ce mac80211: init mesh timer for user authed STAs
There is a corner case which wasn't being covered:
userspace may authenticate and allocate stations,
but still leave the peering up to the kernel.

Initialize the peering timer if the MPM is not in
userspace, in a path which is taken by both the kernel and
userspace when allocating stations.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:36:14 +01:00
Thomas Pedersen 146bb4839a mac80211: disallow changing auto_open_plinks
while user MPM is running.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:36:13 +01:00
Thomas Pedersen d37bb18ae3 nl80211: user_mpm overrides auto_open_plinks
If the user requested a userspace MPM, automatically
disable auto_open_plinks to fully disable the kernel MPM.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:36:13 +01:00
Thomas Pedersen a6dad6a26e mac80211: support userspace MPM
Earlier mac80211 would check whether some kind of mesh
security was enabled, when the real question was "is the
MPM in userspace"?

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:36:12 +01:00
Thomas Pedersen eef941e6d6 cfg80211: rename mesh station types
The mesh station types used to refer to whether the
station was secure or nonsecure. Really the salient
information is whether it is managed by the kernel or
userspace

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:36:11 +01:00
Thomas Pedersen bb2798d45f nl80211: explicit userspace MPM
Secure mesh had the implicit requirement that the Mesh
Peering Management entity be in userspace.  However
userspace might want to implement an open MPM as well, so
specify a mesh setup parameter to indicate this.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:36:11 +01:00
Thomas Huehn 2ff2b690c5 mac80211: improve minstrels rate sorting by means of throughput & probability
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>
2013-03-06 16:36:10 +01:00
Thomas Huehn db8c5ee692 mac80211: treat minstrel success probabilities below 10% as implausible
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>
2013-03-06 16:36:09 +01:00
Thomas Huehn f744bf81f7 mac80211: add lowest rate into minstrel's random rate sampling table
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>
2013-03-06 16:36:09 +01:00
Thomas Huehn 1e9c27df7b mac80211: extend minstrel's rate sampling to avoid unsampled rates
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>
2013-03-06 16:36:08 +01:00
Thomas Huehn 8f15761197 mac80211: add documentation and verbose variable names in
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>
2013-03-06 16:36:08 +01:00