In congested network, having all rate reties at MCS rates
is failing to transmit the frame offenly. By the time reaching
the success rate set, the application gets timed out. One such
scenario is that authentication time out during 4-Way handshake.
This patch uses a legacy rate as last retry sequnce for
unaggregated frames or if the first selected rate's PER is ~80%
of max limit. And also observed from the tx status that the frame
was trasmitted successfully by using legacy rates.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
for the ease of debugging, we display only the rate control statistics
for currently operating mode and bandwidth
Cc: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: "Balasubramanian, senthilkumar" <senthilb@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Whenever there is a channel width change from 40 Mhz to 20 Mhz,
the hardware is reconfigured to ht20. Meantime before doing
the rate control updation, the packets are being transmitted are
selected rate with IEEE80211_TX_RC_40_MHZ_WIDTH.
While transmitting ht40 rate packets in ht20 mode is causing
baseband panic with AR9003 based chips.
==== BB update: BB status=0x02001109 ====
ath: ** BB state: wd=1 det=1 rdar=0 rOFDM=1 rCCK=1 tOFDM=0 tCCK=0 agc=2
src=0 **
ath: ** BB WD cntl: cntl1=0xffff0085 cntl2=0x00000004 **
ath: ** BB mode: BB_gen_controls=0x000033c0 **
ath: ** BB busy times: rx_clear=99%, rx_frame=0%, tx_frame=0% **
ath: ==== BB update: done ====
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Check whether index is within bounds before testing the element
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
With the recent tx status optimization in mac80211, we bail out as
and and when invalid rate index is found. So the behavior of resetting
rate idx to -1 and count to 0 has changed for the rate indexes that
were not part of the driver's retry series.
This has resulted in ath9k using incorrect rate table index which
caused the system to panic. Ideally ath9k need to loop only for the
indexes that were part of the retry series and so simply use hw->max_rates
as the loop counter.
Pasted the stack trace of the panic issue for reference.
[ 754.093192] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff88046a9025b0
[ 754.093256] IP: [<ffffffffa02eac49>] ath_tx_status+0x209/0x2f0 [ath9k]
[ 754.094888] Call Trace:
[ 754.094903] <IRQ>
[ 754.094928] [<ffffffffa051f883>] ieee80211_tx_status+0x203/0x9e0 [mac80211]
[ 754.094975] [<ffffffffa053e305>] ? __ieee80211_wake_queue+0x125/0x140 [mac80211]
[ 754.095017] [<ffffffffa02e66c9>] ath_tx_complete_buf+0x1b9/0x370 [ath9k]
[ 754.095054] [<ffffffffa02e6fcf>] ath_tx_complete_aggr+0x51f/0xb50 [ath9k]
[ 754.095098] [<ffffffffa05382a3>] ? ieee80211_prepare_and_rx_handle+0x173/0xab0 [mac80211]
[ 754.095148] [<ffffffff81350e62>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x32/0x40
[ 754.095186] [<ffffffffa02e9735>] ath_tx_tasklet+0x365/0x4b0 [ath9k]
[ 754.095224] [<ffffffff8107a2a2>] ? clockevents_program_event+0x62/0xa0
[ 754.095261] [<ffffffffa02e2628>] ath9k_tasklet+0x168/0x1c0 [ath9k]
[ 754.095298] [<ffffffff8105599b>] tasklet_action+0x6b/0xe0
[ 754.095331] [<ffffffff81056278>] __do_softirq+0x98/0x120
[ 754.095361] [<ffffffff8100cd5c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
[ 754.095393] [<ffffffff8100efb5>] do_softirq+0x65/0xa0
[ 754.095423] [<ffffffff810563fd>] irq_exit+0x8d/0x90
[ 754.095453] [<ffffffff8100ebc1>] do_IRQ+0x61/0xe0
[ 754.095482] [<ffffffff81351413>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0x15
[ 754.095513] <EOI>
[ 754.095531] [<ffffffff81014375>] ? native_sched_clock+0x15/0x70
[ 754.096475] [<ffffffffa02bcfa6>] ? acpi_idle_enter_bm+0x24d/0x285 [processor]
[ 754.096475] [<ffffffffa02bcf9f>] ? acpi_idle_enter_bm+0x246/0x285 [processor]
[ 754.096475] [<ffffffff8127fab2>] cpuidle_idle_call+0x82/0x100
[ 754.096475] [<ffffffff8100a236>] cpu_idle+0xa6/0xf0
[ 754.096475] [<ffffffff81339bc1>] rest_init+0x91/0xa0
[ 754.096475] [<ffffffff814efccd>] start_kernel+0x3fd/0x408
[ 754.096475] [<ffffffff814ef347>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x132/0x136
[ 754.096475] [<ffffffff814ef451>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x106/0x115
[ 754.096475] RIP [<ffffffffa02eac49>] ath_tx_status+0x209/0x2f0 [ath9k]
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove some obvious looking dead code and rename few functions
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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>
Remove ath/debug.h and the includes of these files.
Coalesce long formats.
Correct a few misspellings and missing "\n"s from these logging messages.
Remove unnecessary trailing space before a newline.
Remove ARRAY_SIZE casts, use printf type %zu
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
So these errors are always emitted at KERN_ERR level.
Remove ARRAY_SIZE casts, use printf type %zu
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This should help with latency issues which can happen when
using aggregation.
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>
This takes care that boolean types are properly assigned
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
With the current rate control selection method the median function is
nowhere used, so remove it.
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The index variable to access the rate flags should be obtained from the
inner loop counter which corresponds to the rate table structure.This
fixes the invalid rate selection i.e when the supported basic rate is
invalid on a particular band and also the following warning message.
Thanks to Raj for finding this out.
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8104ee4a>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7a/0xb0
[<ffffffff8104ee95>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
[<ffffffffa0583c45>] ath_get_rate+0x595/0x5b0 [ath9k]
[<ffffffff811a0636>] ? cpumask_next_and+0x36/0x50
[<ffffffffa0405186>] rate_control_get_rate+0x86/0x160 [mac80211]
[<ffffffffa040dfac>] invoke_tx_handlers+0x81c/0x12d0 [mac80211]
[<ffffffffa040eae9>] ieee80211_tx+0x89/0x2b0 [mac80211]
[<ffffffff812891bc>] ? pskb_expand_head+0x1cc/0x1f0
[<ffffffffa040edc5>] ieee80211_xmit+0xb5/0x1c0 [mac80211]
[<ffffffffa041026f>] ieee80211_tx_skb+0x4f/0x60 [mac80211]
[<ffffffffa03fe016>] ieee80211_send_nullfunc+0x46/0x60 [mac80211]
[<ffffffffa03f91d7>] ieee80211_offchannel_stop_station+0x107/0x150
[mac80211]
[<ffffffff812891bc>] ? pskb_expand_head+0x1cc/0x1f0
[<ffffffffa040edc5>] ieee80211_xmit+0xb5/0x1c0 [mac80211]
[<ffffffffa041026f>] ieee80211_tx_skb+0x4f/0x60 [mac80211]
[<ffffffffa03fe016>] ieee80211_send_nullfunc+0x46/0x60 [mac80211]
[<ffffffffa03f91d7>] ieee80211_offchannel_stop_station+0x107/0x150
[mac80211]
[<ffffffffa03f8896>] ieee80211_scan_work+0x146/0x600 [mac80211]
[<ffffffff8133a375>] ? schedule+0x2f5/0x8e0
[<ffffffffa03f8750>] ? ieee80211_scan_work+0x0/0x600 [mac80211]
[<ffffffff81064fcf>] process_one_work+0x10f/0x380
[<ffffffff81066bc2>] worker_thread+0x162/0x340
[<ffffffff81066a60>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x340
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The wireless mode bitfield was only used to detect 2.4 and 5 GHz support,
which can be simplified by using ATH9K_HW_CAP_* capabilities.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Set the rate table in the rc module properly based on band and
HT capabilities instead, which was already partially done, but
not for every mode.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Move them to the same debugfs file that the other rc modules use.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This fix updates the documenation in Rate Control Table structure
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch attempts to ensure that ath9k's built-in rate control algorithm
does not rely on the value of the ampdu_len and ampdu_ack_len tx status
fields unless the IEEE80211_TX_STAT_AMPDU flag is set.
This patch has not been tested.
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>
It is not used anywhere else and can be made static
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
base index is not used anymore and so remove it.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The user ratekbs of MCS15 ShortGI is incorrect and can not be lesser
than MCS15 rate. This incorrect rate may affect switching to higher
rates as the rate control algorithm always finds MCS15 is better
than MCS15 ShortGI and results in lower throughput. Fix this by
feeding the correct user ratekbs for MCS15 ShortGI rate.
This issue affects 3 stream case very badly as the 3 stream rates are
not used at all once we scale down to MCS15 from 3 stream rates.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds 3 stream rate control support for AR938X family
chipsets which supports 3 streams.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
replace valid and valid_single_stream in rate table with bit masks
and reorganize the code so adding 3x3 rate control would be easier.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mac80211 already masks the HT sta capabilities based on hardware support
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The following commit added an entry in 11na and 11ng rate
table but missed to update its rate count field. This
inconsistency between the rate count and the actual number
of rates in the table will leave out the final rate entry
(mcs15 with half gi in ht40) while forming the valid
rate indices. Not having mcs15+shortGI in ht40 will have
a performance impact (on max throughput) of about 10% both
in nght40 and naht40 mode.
Author: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Date: Thu May 13 18:42:38 2010 -0700
ath9k: Enable Short GI in 20 Mhz for ar9287 and later chips
This patch enables short GI rx at all rates and tx at mcs15
for 20 Mhz channel width also.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch enables short GI rx at all rates and tx at mcs15
for 20 Mhz channel width also.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
LDPC is enabled by the rate control if the its determined
that the target peer supports LDPC. We would have already
intersected the HT capabilities so if our peer supports
LDPC so do we.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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>
Currently the rate control tx status update gets called for every
subframe of an A-MPDU, and ath9k marks the frame with the relevant
status update with an internal flag. This not suitable for rate control
algorithms using the standard mac80211 rate control API, so fix this by
using IEEE80211_TX_STAT_AMPDU for marking the correct frames that
should be processed.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Handling HT configuration changes involved setting the channel
with the new HT parameters and then issuing a rate_update()
notification to the driver.
This behavior changed after the off-channel changes. Now, the channel
is not updated with the new HT params in enable_ht() - instead, it
is now done when the scan work terminates. This results in the driver
depending on stale information, defaulting to non-HT mode always.
Fix this by passing the new channel type to the driver.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When selecting the tx fallback rate, rc.c used a separate variable
'nrix' for storing the next rate index, however it did not use that as
reference for further rate index lowering. Because of that, it ended up
reusing the same rate for multiple multi-rate retry stages, thus
decreasing delivery probability under changing link conditions.
This patch removes the separate (unnecessary) variable and fixes
fallback the way it was intended to work.
This should result in increased throughput and better link stability.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k currently forces hw->max_rate_tries to 4 to work around rate
control inefficiencies. This has some negative side effects, such as
rate_control_send_low also using a maximum of 4 tries, which could
negatively affect reliability of unicast management frames.
This patch pushes the retry limit to the rate control instead, and
allows it to use more tries on the last stage to prevent unnecessary
packet loss.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Rajkumar Manoharan