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Author SHA1 Message Date
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