- 06 Mar, 2013 40 commits
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Thomas Huehn authored
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>
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Thomas Huehn authored
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:
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Thomas Huehn authored
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:
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Thomas Huehn authored
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:
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Thomas Huehn authored
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:
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Thomas Huehn authored
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:
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Felix Fietkau authored
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:
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Johannes Berg authored
For VHT, the wider bandwidths (up to 160 MHz) need to be allowed. Since world roaming only covers the case of connecting to an AP, it can be opened up there, we will rely on the AP to know the local regulations. Acked-by:
Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Berg authored
There's no reason TDLS should be prevented on P2P client interfaces, and most of the code already handles it, so allow adding stations for it. Reported-by:
Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Berg authored
Add a new debugfs file to view a station's VHT capabilities. Signed-off-by: -
Johannes Berg authored
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 authored
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 authored
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 authored
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 authored
Since hostapd will remove keys this isn't usually an issue, but we shouldn't leak keys to the next BSS started on the same interface. For VLANs this also fixes a bug, keys that aren't removed would otherwise be leaked. Signed-off-by: -
Johannes Berg authored
During roaming, the crypto_tx_tailroom_needed_cnt counter will often take values 2,1,0,1,2 because first keys are removed and then new keys are added. This is inefficient because during the 0->1 transition, synchronize_net must be called to avoid packet races, although typically no packets would be flowing during that time. To avoid that, defer the decrement (2->1, 1->0) when keys are removed (by half a second). This means the counter will really have the values 2,2,2,3,4 ... 2, thus never reaching 0 and having to do the 0->1 transition. Note that this patch entirely disregards the drivers for which this optimisation was done to start with, for them the key removal itself will be expensive because it has to synchronize_net() after the counter is incremented to remove the key from HW crypto. For them the sequence will look like this: 0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0 (*) which is clearly a lot more inefficient. This could be addressed separately, during key removal the 0->1->0 sequence isn't necessary. (*) it starts at 0 because HW crypto is on, then goes to 1 when HW crypto is disabled for a key, then back to 0 because the key is deleted; this happens for both keys in the example. When new keys are added, it goes to 1 first because they're added in software; when a key is moved to hardware it goes back to 0 Signed-off-by: -
Johannes Berg authored
There's no driver using this flag, so it seems that all drivers support HW crypto with WMM or don't support it at all. Remove the flag and code setting it. Signed-off-by: -
Stanislaw Gruszka authored
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Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Stanislaw Gruszka authored
Remove not used any longer suspend/resume code. Signed-off-by:
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Stanislaw Gruszka authored
Remove not used any longer suspend/resume code. Signed-off-by:
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Stanislaw Gruszka authored
Remove not used any longer suspend/resume code. Signed-off-by:
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Stanislaw Gruszka authored
Since now we disconnect before suspend, various code which save connection state can now be removed from suspend and resume procedure. Cleanup on resume side is smaller as ieee80211_reconfig() is also used for H/W restart. Signed-off-by:
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Stanislaw Gruszka authored
If possible that after suspend, cfg80211 will receive request to disconnect what require action on interface that was removed during suspend. Problem can manifest itself by various warnings similar to below one: WARNING: at net/mac80211/driver-ops.h:12 ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify+0x2f9/0x300 [mac80211]() wlan0: Failed check-sdata-in-driver check, flags: 0x4 Call Trace: [<c043e0b3>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x33/0x40 [<f83707c9>] ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify+0x2f9/0x300 [mac80211] [<f83a660a>] ieee80211_recalc_ps_vif+0x2a/0x30 [mac80211] [<f83a6706>] ieee80211_set_disassoc+0xf6/0x500 [mac80211] [<f83a9441>] ieee80211_mgd_deauth+0x1f1/0x280 [mac80211] [<f8381b36>] ieee80211_deauth+0x16/0x20 [mac80211] [<f8261e70>] cfg80211_mlme_down+0x70/0xc0 [cfg80211] [<f8264de1>] __cfg80211_disconnect+0x1b1/0x1d0 [cfg80211] To fix the problem disconnect from any associated network before suspend. User space is responsible to establish connection again after resume. This basically need to be done by user space anyway, because associated stations can go away during suspend (for example NetworkManager disconnects on suspend and connect on resume by default). Patch also handle situation when driver refuse to suspend with wowlan configured and try to suspend again without it. Signed-off-by:
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Stanislaw Gruszka authored
Since two years no mac80211 driver implement support for NAPI. Looks this feature is unneeded, so remove it from generic mac80211 code. Signed-off-by:
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Felix Fietkau authored
A sample attempt should only count in mi->sample_tries if the sample attempt wasn't skipped based on slower rate criteria. This patch increases the sampling frequency for potentially desirable rates and thus enables faster recovery from interference or collisions. Signed-off-by:
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Felix Fietkau authored
If a rate is below the max_tp_rate, sample it frequently if: - it is above max_tp_rate2, or - it is above max_prob_rate and is a candidate for max_prob_rate (has fewer streams than max_tp_rate). This helps the retry chain recover more quickly from bad statistics caused by collisions or interference, and slightly reduces throughput fluctuations with higher rates. Signed-off-by:
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Felix Fietkau authored
Try to sample all available rates, as sample attempts do not cost much airtime and are appropriately spaced based on the average A-MPDU length. This helps with faster recovery on rate fluctuations. Signed-off-by:
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Felix Fietkau authored
max_prob_rate should be selected to be very reliable, however limiting it to single-stream on 3-stream devices is a bit much. Allow max_prob_rate to use one stream less than the max_tp_rate. Signed-off-by:
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Felix Fietkau authored
At high data rates the average frame transmission durations are small enough for rounding errors to matter, sometimes causing minstrel to use slightly lower transmit rates than necessary. To fix this, change the unit of the duration value to nanoseconds instead of microseconds, and reorder the multiplications/divisions when calculating the throughput metric so that they don't overflow or truncate prematurely. At 2-stream HT40 this makes TCP throughput a bit more stable. Signed-off-by:
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Jouni Malinen authored
Add NL80211_CMD_UPDATE_FT_IES to support update of FT IEs to the WLAN driver and NL80211_CMD_FT_EVENT to send FT events from the WLAN driver. This will carry the target AP's MAC address along with the relevant Information Elements. This event is used to report received FT IEs (MDIE, FTIE, RSN IE, TIE, RICIE). These changes allow FT to be supported with drivers that use an internal SME instead of user space option (like FT implementation in wpa_supplicant with mac80211-based drivers). Signed-off-by:
Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Berg authored
It's not useful to specify a 0 keepalive interval, this would send too much data. Prohibit this to also avoid device issues. Signed-off-by: -
Ilan Peer authored
Some devices can handle remain on channel requests differently based on the request type/priority. Add support to differentiate between different ROC types, i.e., indicate that the ROC is required for sending managment frames. Signed-off-by:
Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com> Reviewed-by:
Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Berg authored
cfg80211_mlme_assoc() has grown far too many arguments, make the caller build almost all of the driver struct and pass that to the function instead. Signed-off-by: -
Johannes Berg authored
Support the cfg80211 API to override VHT capabilities on association. Signed-off-by: -
Johannes Berg authored
For testing it's sometimes useful to be able to override certain VHT capability advertisement, add the ability to do that in cfg80211. Signed-off-by: -
Johannes Berg authored
There's an enum with the same values (but slightly different names except for NOT_SUPPORTED) that is actually used, so remove the defines. Signed-off-by: -
Johannes Berg authored
This is the sort of thing gcc's LTO could do, but since we don't have that yet we can also do it manually. The advantage is reduced code, both source and binary, e.g. on x86-64 text data bss dec hex filename 442825 56230 776 499831 7a077 cfg80211.ko (before) 441585 56230 776 498591 79b9f cfg80211.ko (after) a reduction of ~1k. But in order to not complicate the code move only those functions that are simple wrappers, not those that have functionality of their own. Signed-off-by: -
Johannes Berg authored
Add back the channel width and extended capability data to wiphy information if split information is supported. Signed-off-by: -
Felix Fietkau authored
Regardless of what header features they use, or if they align the IP header or not, 802.11 packets from all drivers guarantee a 2-byte alignment (and there's a debug WARN_ON in case they don't). Annotate packet structs with __aligned(2) to allow the compiler to use 16-bit load/store operations on platforms with extremely inefficient unaligned access (e.g. MIPS). This reduces code size and improves performance on affected platforms and causes no binary code change on others. Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Berg authored
Move the sequence number arithmetic code from mac80211 to ieee80211.h so others can use it. Also rename the functions from _seq to _sn, they operate on the sequence number, not the sequence_control field. Also move macros to convert the sequence control to/from the sequence number value from various drivers. Signed-off-by:
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