Commit Graph

265 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Ron Rindjunsky 8b6bbe7538 mac80211: fixing null qos data frames check for reordering buffer
This patch fixes a wrong condition for null qos data frames, causing us to
drop data frames needed for reordering as well.

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-31 19:26:38 -08:00
Johannes Berg 691ba2346d mac80211: fix alignment warning
When I introduced the alignment warning I forgot the A-MSDU case which
has a different requirement because each frame contains 14-byte 802.3
headers in front of the IP payload. This patch moves the alignment
warning to a place where we know whether we're dealing with an A-MSDU
frame and adjusts it accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-31 19:26:34 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 1e90474c37 [NET_SCHED]: Convert packet schedulers from rtnetlink to new netlink API
Convert packet schedulers to use the netlink API. Unfortunately a gradual
conversion is not possible without breaking compilation in the middle or
adding lots of casts, so this patch converts them all in one step. The
patch has been mostly generated automatically with some minor edits to
at least allow seperate conversion of classifiers and actions.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:11:10 -08:00
Ron Rindjunsky 71ebb4aac8 mac80211: fix rx flow sparse errors, make functions static
This patch adds static declarations to functions in the Rx flow in order to
eliminate sparse errors

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28 15:10:46 -08:00
Stefano Brivio c09c7237ea rc80211-pid: fix last_sample initialization
Fix last_sample initialization. kzalloc'ing the per-STA data wasn't enough,
as jiffies can assume negative values as well. This fixes a bug which
prevented correct PID operation for a while after booting.

Thanks to Michael Buesch for reporting this.

Reported-and-tested-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28 15:10:43 -08:00
Johannes Berg f99b751fca mac80211: fix RCU locking in __ieee80211_rx_handle_packet
Commit c7a51bda ("mac80211: restructure __ieee80211_rx") extracted
__ieee80211_rx_handle_packet out of __ieee80211_rx and hence changed
the locking rules for __ieee80211_rx_handle_packet(), it is now
invoked under RCU lock. There is, however, one instance left where
it contains an rcu_read_unlock() in an error path, which is a bug.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28 15:10:43 -08:00
Guy Cohen a8bdf29c6c mac80211: Assign correct TID for local bridged packets
This patch assigns correct TID to frames transmitted between
two stations in the same BSS in AP mode.
The problem is that skb->protocol is not set to ETH_P_IP and it is wrong
to use that field at this stage.
The fix compares the LLC/Protocol headers explicitly to check if the
encapsulated frame is IP frame

Signed-off-by: Guy Cohen <guy.cohen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28 15:10:41 -08:00
Ron Rindjunsky 66dcb6bdc5 mac80211: A-MPDU Rx remove stop_rx_ba_session warning print
This patch removes a warning print from ieee80211_sta_stop_rx_ba_session
in case the tid is inactive when interface goes down.

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28 15:10:10 -08:00
Ron Rindjunsky 5b3d71d90e mac80211: A-MPDU Rx stop aggregation on proper dev
This patch adds a check to insure that Rx A-MPDU will be stopped only
for the proper device.

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28 15:10:09 -08:00
Ivo van Doorn 0f7054e32f mac80211: Initialize vif pointer
Before calling update_beacon() mac80211 must
initialize the control.vif pointer so it can
be used by the driver to determine which
interface is trying to send the beacon.

v2: ieee80211_beacon_get() should also initialize the
vif pointer since it can be called by mac80211 internally
before calling config_interface().

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28 15:10:08 -08:00
Johannes Berg 471b3efdfc mac80211: add unified BSS configuration
This patch (based on Ron Rindjunsky's) creates a framework for
a unified way to pass BSS configuration to drivers that require
the information, e.g. for implementing power save mode.

This patch introduces new ieee80211_bss_conf structure that is
passed to the driver via the new bss_info_changed() callback
when the BSS configuration changes.

This new BSS configuration infrastructure adds the following
new features:
 * drivers are notified of their association AID
 * drivers are notified of association status

and replaces the erp_ie_changed() callback. The patch also does
the relevant driver updates for the latter change.

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28 15:09:43 -08:00
Michael Wu 2bc454b0b3 mac80211: Fix rate reporting regression
Mattias Nissler's "clean up rate selection" patch incorrectly changes
the behavior of txrate setting in sta_info. This patch backs out parts
of the rate selection consolidation in order to fix this issue for now.

Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28 15:09:42 -08:00
Johannes Berg 4fd6931ebe mac80211: implement cfg80211 station handling
This implements station handling from userspace via cfg80211
in mac80211.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28 15:09:39 -08:00
Johannes Berg 5dfdaf58d6 mac80211: add beacon configuration via cfg80211
This patch implements the cfg80211 hooks for configuring beaconing
on an access point interface in mac80211. While doing so, it fixes
a number of races that could badly crash the machine when the
beacon is changed while being requested by the driver.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28 15:09:38 -08:00
Johannes Berg 51fb61e76d mac80211: move interface type to vif structure
Drivers that support mixed AP/STA operation may well need to
know the type of a virtual interface when iterating over them.
The easiest way to support that is to move the interface type
variable into the vif structure.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28 15:09:37 -08:00
Johannes Berg 32bfd35d4b mac80211: dont use interface indices in drivers
This patch gets rid of the if_id stuff where possible in favour of
a new per-virtual-interface structure "struct ieee80211_vif". This
structure is located at the end of the per-interface structure and
contains a variable length driver-use data area.

This has two advantages:
 * removes the need to look up interfaces by if_id, this is better
   for working with network namespaces and performance
 * allows drivers to store and retrieve per-interface data without
   having to allocate own lists/hash tables

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28 15:09:36 -08:00
Ivo van Doorn cdcb006fbe mac80211: Add radio led trigger
Some devices have a seperate LED which indicates if the radio is
enabled or not. This adds a LED trigger to mac80211 where drivers
can hook into when they are interested in radio status changes.

v2: Check hw.conf.radio_enabled when calling start().

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:04 -08:00
Andrew Lutomirski df26e7ea04 rc80211_pid should respect fixed rates.
I would argue that mac80211 should handle fixed rates outside the rate
control code, which would also allow them to take effect immediately
instead of during the rate control callback, but this is pretty close
to correct.

Signed-Off-By: Andy Lutomirski <luto@myrealbox.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:04 -08:00
Johannes Berg 4b475898ec mac80211: better rate control algorithm selection
This patch changes mac80211's Kconfig/Makefile to:
 * select between the PID and the SIMPLE rate control
   algorithm as default
 * always allow tri-state for the rate control algorithms,
   building those that are selected 'y' into the mac80211
   module (if that is a module, otherwise all into the kernel)
 * force the default rate control algorithm to be built into
   mac80211

It also makes both rate control algorithms proper modules again
with MODULE_LICENSE etc.

Only if EMBEDDED is the user allowed to select "NONE" as default
which will cause no algorithm to be selected, this will work
only when the driver brings one itself (e.g. iwlwifi drivers).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:02 -08:00
Ron Rindjunsky 688b88a488 mac80211: A-MPDU Rx handling DELBA requests
This patch opens the flow to DELBA management frames, and handles end
of A-MPDU session produced by this event.

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:02 -08:00
Ron Rindjunsky 713647169e mac80211: A-MPDU Rx adding BAR handling capability
This patch adds the ability to handle Block Ack Request

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:01 -08:00
Ron Rindjunsky b580781e03 mac80211: A-MPDU Rx handling aggregation reordering
This patch handles the reordering of the Rx A-MPDU.
This issue occurs when the sequence of the internal MPDUs is not in the
right order. such a case can be encountered for example when some MPDUs from
previous aggregations were recieved, while others failed, so current A-MPDU
will contain a mix of re-transmited MPDUs and new ones.

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:00 -08:00
Ron Rindjunsky 16c5f15c73 mac80211: A-MPDU Rx MLME data initialization
This patch initialize A-MPDU MLME data for Rx sessions.

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:00 -08:00
Ron Rindjunsky 07db218396 mac80211: A-MPDU Rx adding basic functionality
This patch adds the basic needed abilities and functions for A-MPDU Rx session
changed functions:
 - ieee80211_sta_process_addba_request - Rx A-MPDU initialization enabled
 - ieee80211_stop - stops all A-MPDU Rx in case interface goes down
added functions:
 - ieee80211_send_delba - used for sending out Del BA in A-MPDU sessions
 - ieee80211_sta_stop_rx_BA_session - stopping Rx A-MPDU session
 - sta_rx_agg_session_timer_expired - stops A-MPDU Rx use if load is too
low

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:59 -08:00
Ron Rindjunsky 5aae288061 mac80211: A-MPDU Rx add MLME structures
This patch adds the needed structures to describe the Rx aggregation MLME per STA
new:
 - struct tid_ampdu_rx: TID aggregation information (Rx)
 - struct sta_ampdu_mlme: MLME aggregation information for STA
changed:
 - struct sta_info: ampdu_mlme added to describe A-MPDU MLME per STA,
		    and timer_to_tid added to map timer id into TID

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:58 -08:00
Ron Rindjunsky 6368e4b18d mac80211: restructure __ieee80211_rx
This patch makes a separation between Rx frame pre-handling which stays in
__ieee80211_rx and Rx frame handlers, moving to __ieee80211_rx_handle_packet.
Although this separation has no affect in regular mode of operation, this kind
of mechanism will be used in A-MPDU frames reordering as it allows accumulation
of frames during pre-handling, dispatching them to later handling when necessary.

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:57 -08:00
Johannes Berg f704662fb7 mac80211: make rc_pid_fop_events static
No need to not be.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:56 -08:00
Stefano Brivio 1b507e7e53 rc80211-pid: fix definition of rate control interval
Fix the rate control interval definition. Thanks to Mattias Nissler for
spotting this out.

Cc: Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:55 -08:00
Johannes Berg 6d65f5db2f mac80211: remove misleading 'res' variable
When this function returns != CONTINUE, it needs to put the
station struct it has acquired. Hence, having this unused
variable is not just superfluous but also misleading.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:55 -08:00
Stefano Brivio d439810bda rc80211-pid: pf_target tuning
Set a better value for percentage target for failed frames. The previous value
slowed down too much rate increases in case of permanently low activity. While
at it, increase readability.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:53 -08:00
Stefano Brivio 13e05aa631 rc80211-pid: fix sta_info refcounting
Fix a bug which caused uncorrect refcounting of PHYs in mac80211. Thanks to
Johannes Berg for spotting this out.

Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:53 -08:00
Stefano Brivio fa44327c06 rc80211-pid: simplify and fix shift_adjust
Simplify and fix rate_control_pid_shift_adjust(). A bug prevented correct
mapping of sorted rates, and readability was seriously flawed.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:52 -08:00
Stefano Brivio ca5fbca924 rc80211-pid: add kerneldoc for tunable parameters
Add a kerneldoc description for parameters which are tunable through debugfs.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:51 -08:00
Stefano Brivio 426706c079 rc80211-pid: export human-readable target_pf value to debugfs
Export the non-shifted target_pf value to debugfs, so that it's human-readable.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:50 -08:00
Helmut Schaa 69f817b654 mac80211: Restore rx.fc before every invocation of ieee80211_invoke_rx_handlers
This patch fixes a problem with rx handling on multiple interfaces. Especially
when using hardware-scanning and a wireless driver (i.e. iwlwifi) which is
able to receive data while scanning.

The rx handlers can modify the skb and the frame control field (see
ieee80211_rx_h_remove_qos_control) but since every interface gets its own
copy of the skb each should get its own copy of rx.fc too.

In my case the wlan0-interface did not remove the qos-control from the frame
because the corresponding flag in rx.fc was already removed while processing
the frame on the master interface. Therefore somehow corrupted frames were
passed to the userspace.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <hschaa@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:50 -08:00
John W. Linville c40896de50 net/mac80211/Kconfig: whitespace corrections
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:55 -08:00
Johannes Berg c27f9830f3 mac80211: don't read ERP information from (re)association response
According to the standard, the field cannot be present, so don't
try to interpret it either.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:54 -08:00
Johannes Berg 176e4f8442 mac80211: move tx crypto decision
This patch moves the decision making about whether a frame is encrypted
with a certain algorithm up into the TX handlers rather than having it
in the crypto algorithm implementation.

This fixes a problem with the radiotap injection code where injecting
a non-data packet and requesting encryption could end up asking the
driver to encrypt a packet without giving it a key.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:53 -08:00
Johannes Berg 7bbdd2d987 mac80211: implement station stats retrieval
This implements the required cfg80211 callback in mac80211
to allow userspace to get station statistics.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:53 -08:00
Johannes Berg 62da92fb75 mac80211: support getting key sequence counters via cfg80211
This implements cfg80211's get_key() to allow retrieving the sequence
counter for a TKIP or CCMP key from userspace. It also cleans up and
documents the associated low-level driver interface.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:50 -08:00
Johannes Berg e8cbb4cbeb mac80211: support adding/removing keys via cfg80211
This adds the necessary hooks to mac80211 to allow userspace
to edit keys with cfg80211 (through nl80211.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:49 -08:00
Johannes Berg 7d54d0ddd6 mac80211: allow easier multicast/broadcast buffering in hardware
There are various decisions influencing the decision whether to buffer
a frame for after the next DTIM beacon. The "do we have stations in PS
mode" condition cannot be tested by the driver so mac80211 has to do
that. To ease driver writing for hardware that can buffer frames until
after the next DTIM beacon, introduce a new txctl flag telling the
driver to buffer a specific frame.

While at it, restructure and comment the code for multicast buffering
and remove spurious "inline" directives.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:47 -08:00
Johannes Berg 4e20cb293c mac80211: make ieee80211_rx_mgmt_action static
The function is only used locally.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:46 -08:00
Johannes Berg 678f5f7117 mac80211: clean up eapol handling in TX path
The previous patch left only one user of the ieee80211_is_eapol()
function and that user can be eliminated easily by introducing
a new "frame is EAPOL" flag to handle the frame specially (we
already have this information) instead of doing the (expensive)
ieee80211_is_eapol() all the time.

Also, allow unencrypted frames to be sent when they are injected.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:46 -08:00
Johannes Berg ce3edf6d0b mac80211: clean up eapol frame handling/port control
This cleans up the eapol frame handling and some related code in the
receive and transmit paths. After this patch
 * EAPOL frames addressed to us or the EAPOL group address are
   always accepted regardless of whether they are encrypted or not
 * other frames from a station are dropped if PAE is enabled and
   the station is not authorized
 * unencrypted frames (except the EAPOL frames above) are dropped if
   drop_unencrypted is enabled
 * some superfluous code that eth_type_trans handles anyway is gone
 * port control is done for transmitted packets

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:45 -08:00
Mattias Nissler 1946b74ce0 rc80211-pid: export tuning parameters through debugfs
This adds all the tunable parameters used by rc80211_pid to debugfs for easy
testing and tuning.

Signed-off-by: Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:44 -08:00
Mattias Nissler 12446c67fe rc80211-pid: add debugging
This adds a new debugfs file from which rate control relevant events can be
read one event per line. The output includes the current time, so graphs can be
created showing the rate control parameters. This helps in evaluating and
tuning rate control parameters. While at it, we split headers and code for
better readability.

Signed-off-by: Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:44 -08:00
Stefano Brivio 1dc4d1e6a1 rc80211-pid: add sharpening factor
This patch introduces a PID sharpening factor for faster response after
association and low activity events.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:43 -08:00
Stefano Brivio 90d501d610 rc80211-pid: add rate behaviour learning algorithm
This patch introduces a learning algorithm in order for the PID controller
to learn how to map adjustment values to rates. This is better described in
code comments.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:42 -08:00
Stefano Brivio c21b39aca4 mac80211: make PID rate control algorithm the default
This makes the new PID TX rate control algorithm the default instead of the
rc80211_simple rate control algorithm. The simple algorithm was flawed in
several ways: it wasn't responsive at all and didn't age the information it was
relying on properly. The PID algorithm allows us to tune characteristics such
as responsiveness by adjusting parameters and was found to generally behave
better.

The default algorithm can be overridden to select simple instead. Which
ever algorithm is the default is included as part of the mac80211
module automatically. The other algorithm (simple vs. pid) can
be selected for inclusion as well. If EMBEDDED is selected then
the choice is available to have no default specified and neither
algorithm included in mac80211. The default algorithm can be set
through a modparam.

While at it, mark rc80211-simple as deprecated, and schedule it
for removal.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:41 -08:00