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| | * | | mac80211: fix LED in idle handlingJohannes Berg2013-04-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | feng xiangjun reports that my commit 382a103b2b528a3085cde4ac56fc69d92a828b72 Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Date: Fri Mar 22 22:30:09 2013 +0100 mac80211: fix idle handling sequence broke the wireless status LED. The reason is that we now call ieee80211_idle_off() when the channel context is assigned, and that doesn't recalculate the LED state. Fix this by making that function a wrapper around most of idle recalculation while forcing active. Reported-by: feng xiangjun <fengxj325@gmail.com> Tested-by: feng xiangjun <fengxj325@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
* | | | | Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville2013-04-10
|\ \ \ \ \ | | |_|_|/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00pci.c net/mac80211/sta_info.c net/wireless/core.h
| * | | | Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville2013-04-10
| |\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00pci.c
| * | | | Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville2013-03-29
| |\ \ \ \ | | |_|_|/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless Conflicts: net/mac80211/sta_info.c net/wireless/core.h
| * | | | mac80211: stop queues temporarily for flushingJohannes Berg2013-03-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sometimes queues are flushed in the middle of operation, which can lead to driver issues. Stop queues temporarily, while flushing, to avoid transmitting new packets while they are being flushed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
| * | | | mac80211: pass queue bitmap to flush operationJohannes Berg2013-03-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are a number of situations in which mac80211 only really needs to flush queues for one virtual interface, and in fact during this frames might be transmitted on other virtual interfaces. Calculate and pass a queue bitmap to the driver so it knows which queues to flush. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
| * | | | mac80211/minstrel_ht: do not sample actively used ratesFelix Fietkau2013-03-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | max_tp_rate2 and max_prob_rate tend to get used occasionally during retransmission, which is more useful for the statistics than probing with individual probe packets. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
| * | | | mac80211/minstrel_ht: avoid useless sampling of high-probability slower ratesFelix Fietkau2013-03-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Slow rates that have >95% success probability do not need to be monitored continuously. When the channel conditions change rapidly, the slow sampling results are useless anyway. When conditions change slowly, they will be monitored by gradual downgrading of the actively used rates. This patch slightly improves throughput under good conditions. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
| * | | | mac80211/minstrel_ht: improve rate selection stabilityFelix Fietkau2013-03-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Under load, otherwise stable rates can easily fluctuate because of collisions. In my tests on a clean channel, the success probability of the max throughput rate often stays somewhere between 90% and 100% under load. This can cause some unnecessary switching to lower rates. This patch improves stability by treating success probability values between 90% and 100% the same. In my tests on a 3x3 HT20 link with lots of TCP traffic, it improves the average throughput by a few mbit/s. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
| * | | | mac80211: remove vif debugfs driver callbacksStanislaw Gruszka2013-03-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This basically reverts commit b207cdb07f3f01ec1adaac62e9d0cc918c60a81a. Now is possible to use drv_{add,remove}_interface() and vif->debugfs_dir to create/remove per interface debugfs files. Remove redundant callbacks. Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
| * | | | mac80211: move sdata debugfs dir to vifStanislaw Gruszka2013-03-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is need create driver own per interface debugfs files. This is currently done by drv_{add,remove}_interface_debugfs() callbacks. But it is possible that after we remove interface from the driver (i.e. on suspend) we call drv_remove_interface_debugfs() function. Fixing this problem will require to add call drv_{add,remove}_interface_debugfs() anytime we create and remove interface in mac80211. So it's better to add debugfs dir dentry to vif structure to allow to create/remove custom debugfs driver files on drv_{add,remove}_interface(). Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
| * | | | mac80211: add driver callback for per-interface multicast filterAlexander Bondar2013-03-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some devices have multicast filter capability for each individual virtual interface rather than just a global one. Add an interface specific driver callback allowing such drivers to configure this. Signed-off-by: Alexander Bondar <alexander.bondar@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
| * | | | mac80211: remove a few set but unused variablesJohannes Berg2013-03-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Found by compiling with W=1. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
| * | | | mac80211: batch key free synchronize_net()Johannes Berg2013-03-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead of calling synchronize_net() for every key on an interface or when a station is removed, do it only once for all keys in both of these cases. As a side-effect, removing station keys now always calls synchronize_net() even if there are no keys, which fixes an issue with station removal happening in the driver while the station could still be used for TX. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
| * | | | mac80211: remove underscores from some key functionsJohannes Berg2013-03-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some key function don't exist without underscores, so remove the underscores from those. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
| * | | | mac80211: clean up key freeing a bitJohannes Berg2013-03-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a key is allocated but not really added, there's no need to go through the entire teardown process. Also, if adding a key fails, ieee80211_key_link() can take care of freeing it instead of the (only) caller. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
| * | | | mac80211: Call drv_set_tim only if there is a changeIlan Peer2013-03-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It is possible that sta_info_recalc_tim() is called consecutively without changing the station's tim bit. In such cases there is no need to call the driver's set_tim() callback. Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
| * | | | mac80211: provide ieee80211_sta_eosp()Johannes Berg2013-03-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The irqsafe version ieee80211_sta_eosp_irqsafe() exists, but drivers must not mix calls to any irqsafe/non-irqsafe function. Both ath9k and iwlwifi, the likely first users of this interface, use non-irqsafe RX/TX/TX status so must also use a non-irqsafe version of this function. Since no driver uses the _irqsafe() version, remove that. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
| * | | | mac80211: provide race-free 64-bit traffic countersJohannes Berg2013-03-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make the TX bytes/packets counters race-free by keeping them per AC so concurrent TX on queues can't cause lost or wrong updates. This works since each station belongs to a single interface. While at it also make the bytes counters 64-bit. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
* | | | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller2013-04-07
|\ \ \ \ \ | | |_|/ / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: drivers/nfc/microread/mei.c net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue_core.c Pull in 'net' to get Eric Biederman's AF_UNIX fix, upon which some cleanups are going to go on-top. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | | Merge branch 'for-john' of ↵John W. Linville2013-04-01
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| | * | mac80211: fix idle handling sequenceJohannes Berg2013-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Corey Richardson reported that my idle handling cleanup (commit fd0f979a1b, "mac80211: simplify idle handling") broke ath9k_htc. The reason appears to be that it wants to go out of idle before switching channels. To fix it, reimplement that sequence. Reported-by: Corey Richardson <corey@octayn.net> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
| | * | mac80211: fix remain-on-channel cancel crashJohannes Berg2013-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a ROC item is canceled just as it expires, the work struct may be scheduled while it is running (and waiting for the mutex). This results in it being run after being freed, which obviously crashes. To fix this don't free it when aborting is requested but instead mark it as "to be freed", which makes the work a no-op and allows freeing it outside. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [3.6+] Reported-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Tested-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
* | | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller2013-04-01
|\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: net/mac80211/sta_info.c net/wireless/core.h Two minor conflicts in wireless. Overlapping additions of extern declarations in net/wireless/core.h and a bug fix overlapping with the addition of a boolean parameter to __ieee80211_key_free(). Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | Merge branch 'for-john' of ↵John W. Linville2013-03-25
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| | * | mac80211: Don't restart sta-timer if not associated.Ben Greear2013-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I found another crash when deleting lots of virtual stations in a congested environment. I think the problem is that the ieee80211_mlme_notify_scan_completed could call ieee80211_restart_sta_timer for a stopped interface that was about to be deleted. With the following patch I am unable to reproduce the crash. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> [move check, also make the same change in mesh] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
| | * | mac80211: fix virtual monitor interface lockingJohannes Berg2013-03-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The virtual monitor interface has a locking issue, it calls into the channel context code with the iflist mutex held which isn't allowed since it is usually acquired the other way around. The mutex is still required for the interface iteration, but need not be held across the channel calls. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
| | * | mac80211: fix crash with P2P Device returning action framesJohannes Berg2013-03-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a P2P Device interface receives an unhandled action frame, we attempt to return it. This crashes because it doesn't have a channel context. Fix the crash by using status->band and properly mark the return frame as an off-channel frame. Reported-by: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
| | * | mac80211: always synchronize_net() during station removalJohannes Berg2013-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If there are keys left during station removal, then a synchronize_net() will be done (for each key, I have a patch to address this for 3.10), otherwise it won't be done at all which causes issues because the station could be used for TX while it's being removed from the driver -- that might confuse the driver. Fix this by always doing synchronize_net() if no key was present any more. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
| * | | Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville2013-03-06
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| * | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netLinus Torvalds2013-03-05
| |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull networking fixes from David Miller: "A moderately sized pile of fixes, some specifically for merge window introduced regressions although others are for longer standing items and have been queued up for -stable. I'm kind of tired of all the RDS protocol bugs over the years, to be honest, it's way out of proportion to the number of people who actually use it. 1) Fix missing range initialization in netfilter IPSET, from Jozsef Kadlecsik. 2) ieee80211_local->tim_lock needs to use BH disabling, from Johannes Berg. 3) Fix DMA syncing in SFC driver, from Ben Hutchings. 4) Fix regression in BOND device MAC address setting, from Jiri Pirko. 5) Missing usb_free_urb in ISDN Hisax driver, from Marina Makienko. 6) Fix UDP checksumming in bnx2x driver for 57710 and 57711 chips, fix from Dmitry Kravkov. 7) Missing cfgspace_lock initialization in BCMA driver. 8) Validate parameter size for SCTP assoc stats getsockopt(), from Guenter Roeck. 9) Fix SCTP association hangs, from Lee A Roberts. 10) Fix jumbo frame handling in r8169, from Francois Romieu. 11) Fix phy_device memory leak, from Petr Malat. 12) Omit trailing FCS from frames received in BGMAC driver, from Hauke Mehrtens. 13) Missing socket refcount release in L2TP, from Guillaume Nault. 14) sctp_endpoint_init should respect passed in gfp_t, rather than use GFP_KERNEL unconditionally. From Dan Carpenter. 15) Add AISX AX88179 USB driver, from Freddy Xin. 16) Remove MAINTAINERS entries for drivers deleted during the merge window, from Cesar Eduardo Barros. 17) RDS protocol can try to allocate huge amounts of memory, check that the user's request length makes sense, from Cong Wang. 18) SCTP should use the provided KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE instead of it's own, bogus, definition. From Cong Wang. 19) Fix deadlocks in FEC driver by moving TX reclaim into NAPI poll, from Frank Li. Also, fix a build error introduced in the merge window. 20) Fix bogus purging of default routes in ipv6, from Lorenzo Colitti. 21) Don't double count RTT measurements when we leave the TCP receive fast path, from Neal Cardwell." * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (61 commits) tcp: fix double-counted receiver RTT when leaving receiver fast path CAIF: fix sparse warning for caif_usb rds: simplify a warning message net: fec: fix build error in no MXC platform net: ipv6: Don't purge default router if accept_ra=2 net: fec: put tx to napi poll function to fix dead lock sctp: use KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE instead of its own MAX_KMALLOC_SIZE rds: limit the size allocated by rds_message_alloc() MAINTAINERS: remove eexpress MAINTAINERS: remove drivers/net/wan/cycx* MAINTAINERS: remove 3c505 caif_dev: fix sparse warnings for caif_flow_cb ax88179_178a: ASIX AX88179_178A USB 3.0/2.0 to gigabit ethernet adapter driver sctp: use the passed in gfp flags instead GFP_KERNEL ipv[4|6]: correct dropwatch false positive in local_deliver_finish l2tp: Restore socket refcount when sendmsg succeeds net/phy: micrel: Disable asymmetric pause for KSZ9021 bgmac: omit the fcs phy: Fix phy_device_free memory leak bnx2x: Fix KR2 work-around condition ...
| | * \ \ Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville2013-03-01
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* | | | | | net: add ETH_P_802_3_MINSimon Horman2013-03-28
| |_|_|_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a new constant ETH_P_802_3_MIN, the minimum ethernet type for an 802.3 frame. Frames with a lower value in the ethernet type field are Ethernet II. Also update all the users of this value that David Miller and I could find to use the new constant. Also correct a bug in util.c. The comparison with ETH_P_802_3_MIN should be >= not >. As suggested by Jesse Gross. Compile tested only. Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de> Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Bart De Schuymer <bart.de.schuymer@pandora.be> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@padovan.org> Cc: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@gmail.com> Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: dev@openvswitch.org Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | | | mac80211: init mesh timer for user authed STAsThomas Pedersen2013-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | | | mac80211: disallow changing auto_open_plinksThomas Pedersen2013-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | while user MPM is running. Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
* | | | | mac80211: support userspace MPMThomas Pedersen2013-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | | | cfg80211: rename mesh station typesThomas Pedersen2013-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | | | mac80211: improve minstrels rate sorting by means of throughput & probabilityThomas Huehn2013-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | | | mac80211: treat minstrel success probabilities below 10% as implausibleThomas Huehn2013-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | | | mac80211: add lowest rate into minstrel's random rate sampling tableThomas Huehn2013-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | | | mac80211: extend minstrel's rate sampling to avoid unsampled ratesThomas Huehn2013-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | | | mac80211: add documentation and verbose variable names inThomas Huehn2013-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | | | mac80211: merge value scaling macros of minstrel_ht and minstrelThomas Huehn2013-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Both minstrel versions use individual ways to scale up integer values to perform calculations. Merge minstrel_ht's scaling macros into minstrels header file and use them in both minstrel versions. 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>
* | | | | mac80211: merge EWMA calculation of minstrel_ht and minstrelThomas Huehn2013-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Both rate control algorithms (minstrel and minstrel_ht) calculate averages based on EWMA. Shift function minstrel_ewma() into rc80211_minstrel.h and make use of it in both minstrel version. Also shift the default EWMA level (75%) definition to the header file and clean up variable usage. 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>
* | | | | mac80211/minstrel_ht: disable multiple consecutive sample attemptsFelix Fietkau2013-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The last minstrel_ht changes increased the sampling frequency for potentially useful rates to decrease the response time to rate fluctuations. This caused an increase in sampling frequency that can slightly reduce throughput, so this patch limits the sampling attempts to one per rate instead of two. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
* | | | | mac80211: add VHT capabilities station debugfs fileJohannes Berg2013-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a new debugfs file to view a station's VHT capabilities. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
* | | | | mac80211: restrict peer's VHT capabilities to ownJohannes Berg2013-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement restricting peer VHT capabilities to the device's own capabilities. This is useful when a single driver supports more than one device and the devices have different capabilities (often they will differ in the number of spatial streams), but in particular is also necessary for VHT capability overrides to work correctly -- otherwise it'd be possible to e.g. advertise, due to overrides, that TX-STBC is not supported, but then still use it to TX to the AP because it supports RX-STBC. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
* | | | | mac80211: fix HT capability overrides for AP stationJohannes Berg2013-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | HT capabilites are asymmetric -- e.g. beamforming is both an RX and TX capability. If, for example, we support RX but not TX, the RX capability of the AP station is masked out (if it supports it). This works correctly if it's really the driver capability. If, on the other hand, the reason for not supporting TX BF is that it was removed by HT capability overrides then the wrong thing happens: the AP's TX capability will be removed rather than its RX capability, because the override function works on own capabilities, not remote ones, and doesn't take the asymmetry into account. To fix this make a copy of our own capabilities, apply the overrides to them (where needed) and then use that to set up the peer's capabilities. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
* | | | | mac80211: don't apply HT overrides to TDLS peersJohannes Berg2013-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The HT overrides are intended only for the connection to the AP, not for any other purpose. Therefore, don't apply them to TDLS peers that are also stations added to a managed station interface. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
* | | | | mac80211: simplify AP interface stopJohannes Berg2013-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For AP interfaces, there's no need to flush stations or keys again when the interface is stopped as already happened when the BSS was stopped on the interface. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>