mac80211: Early detection of broken mesh paths when using minstrel.

This change triggers a path discovery as soon as the link quality degrades
below a certain threshold.  This results in a faster path recovery time than
by simply relying on the periodic path refresh mechanism to detect broken
links.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c
index 3ea9740736a5..007164919e02 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
 #include <linux/random.h>
 #include <linux/ieee80211.h>
 #include <net/mac80211.h>
+#include "mesh.h"
 #include "rate.h"
 #include "rc80211_minstrel.h"
 
@@ -178,9 +179,14 @@ minstrel_tx_status(void *priv, struct ieee80211_supported_band *sband,
 
                 if ((i != IEEE80211_TX_MAX_RATES - 1) && (ar[i + 1].idx < 0)) {
                         mi->r[ndx].success += success;
-                        if (si)
+                        if (si) {
                                 si->fail_avg = (18050 - mi->r[ndx].probability)
                                         / 180;
+                                WARN_ON(si->fail_avg > 100);
+                                if (si->fail_avg == 100 &&
+                                        ieee80211_vif_is_mesh(&si->sdata->vif))
+                                        mesh_plink_broken(si);
+                        }
                 }
         }