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Adrien Schildknecht f5eeb5fa19 mac80211: fix invalid read in minstrel_sort_best_tp_rates()
At the last iteration of the loop, j may equal zero and thus
tp_list[j - 1] causes an invalid read.
Change the logic of the loop so that j - 1 is always >= 0.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Adrien Schildknecht <adrien+dev@schischi.me>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-08-13 13:52:34 +02:00
Thomas Huehn 5f919abc76 mac80211: add standard deviation to Minstrel stats
This patch adds the statistical descriptor "standard deviation"
to better describe the current properties of Minstrel and
Minstrel-HTs success probability distribution. The standard
deviation (SD) is calculated as exponential weighted moving
standard deviation (EWMSD) and its current value is added as
new column in all rc_stats (in debugfs).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-04-01 20:44:33 +02:00
Thomas Huehn 50e55a8ea7 mac80211: add max lossless throughput per rate
This patch adds the new statistic "maximum possible lossless
throughput" to Minstrels and Minstrel-HTs rc_stats (in debugfs). This
enables comprehensive comparison between current per-rate throughput
and max. achievable per-rate throughput.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-04-01 20:44:32 +02:00
Thomas Huehn 6a27b2c40b mac80211: restructure per-rate throughput calculation into function
This patch moves Minstrels and Minstrel-HTs per-rate throughput
calculation (EWMA(thr)) into a dedicated function to be called.
Therefore the variable "unsigned int cur_tp" within struct
"minstrel_rate_stats" becomes obsolete.  and is removed to free
up its space.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-04-01 20:44:32 +02:00
Thomas Huehn 9134073bc6 mac80211: improve Minstrel variable & function naming
This patch ensures a consistent usage of variable names for type
"minstrel_rate_stats" to be used as "mrs" and from type minstrel_rate
as "mr" across both Minstrel & Minstrel-HT. In addition some
variable and function names got changed to more meaningful ones.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-04-01 20:44:31 +02:00
Thomas Huehn f62838bcc5 mac80211: unify Minstrel & Minstrel-HTs calculation of rate statistics
This patch unifies the calculation of Minstrels and Minstrel-HTs
per-rate statistic. The new common function minstrel_calc_rate_stats()
is called when a statistic update is performed.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-04-01 20:44:31 +02:00
Jiri Slaby 17dce15801 mac80211/minstrel: fix !x!=0 confusion
Commit 06d961a8e2 ("mac80211/minstrel: use the new rate control API")
inverted the condition 'if (msr->sample_limit != 0)' to
'if (!msr->sample_limit != 0)'. But it is confusing both to people and
compilers (gcc5):
net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c: In function 'minstrel_get_rate':
net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c:376:26: warning: logical not is only applied to the left hand side of comparison
   if (!msr->sample_limit != 0)
                          ^

Let there be only 'if (!msr->sample_limit)'.

Fixes: 06d961a8e2 ("mac80211/minstrel: use the new rate control API")
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-02-24 21:12:07 +01:00
Felix Fietkau 8d819a92cc mac80211: minstrel: reduce size of struct minstrel_rate_stats
On minstrel_ht, the size of the per-sta struct is almost 18k, making it
an order-3 allocation.
A few fields inside the per-rate statistics are bigger than they need to
be. This patch reduces the size enough to cut down the per-sta struct to
about 13k (order-2 allocation).

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-12-19 21:34:22 +01:00
Felix Fietkau fb7acfb8e1 mac80211: minstrel: switch to .tx_status_noskb
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-11-28 15:01:50 +01:00
Stephen Hemminger d070f9137a mac80211: fix spelling errors
Use codespell to find spelling errors.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-10-31 08:29:56 +01:00
Thomas Huehn ca12c0c833 mac80211: Unify rate statistic variables between Minstrel & Minstrel_HT
Minstrel and Mintrel_HT used there own structs to keep track of rate
statistics. Unify those variables in struct minstrel_rate_states and
move it to rc80211_minstrel.h for common usage. This is a clean-up
patch to prepare Minstrel and Minstrel_HT codebase for upcoming TPC.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-09-11 12:08:31 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli cca674d47e mac80211: export the expected throughput
Add get_expected_throughput() API to mac80211 so that each
driver can implement its own version based on the RC
algorithm they are using (might be using an HW RC algo).
The API returns a value expressed in Kbps.

Also, add the new get_expected_throughput() member
to the rate_control_ops structure in order to be
able to query the RC algorithm (this patch provides an
implementation of this API for both minstrel and
minstrel_ht).

The related member in the station_info object is now
filled accordingly when dumping a station.

Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-05-21 09:15:16 +02:00
Johannes Berg 631ad703ba mac80211: make rate control ops const
Change the code to allow making all the rate control ops
const, nothing ever needs to change them. Also change all
drivers to make use of this and mark the ops const.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-04 21:48:21 +01:00
Weilong Chen f359d3fe83 mac80211: fix checkpatch errors
Fix a number of different checkpatch errors.

Signed-off-by: Weilong Chen <chenweilong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-12-18 10:33:06 +01:00
Karl Beldan f7d8ad81ca mac80211: minstrels: spare numerous useless calls to get_random_bytes
ATM, only the first array value returned by get_random_bytes is used.
This change moves the call to get_random_bytes from the nested loop it
is in to its parent.
While at it, replace get_random_bytes with prandom_bytes since PRNs are
way enough for the selection process.
After this, minstrel_ht reclaims 80 PR-bytes instead of 640 R-bytes.

minstrels use sample tables to probe different rates in a randomized
manner.
minstrel_ht inits one single sample table upon registration (during
subsys_initcalls) and minstrel uses one per STA addition in minstrel.

Signed-off-by: Karl Beldan <karl.beldan@rivierawaves.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-11-25 20:52:09 +01:00
Lorenzo Bianconi 45966aebad mac80211: add fixed_rate management to minstrel rc
Add the capability to use a fixed modulation rate to minstrel rate controller

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi83@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-09-26 13:27:12 +02:00
John W. Linville 7546ff9549 Merge branch 'for-john' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next 2013-08-01 15:26:52 -04:00
Felix Fietkau 5c9fc93bc9 mac80211/minstrel: fix NULL pointer dereference issue
When priv_sta == NULL, mi->prev_sample is dereferenced too early. Move
the assignment further down, after the rate_control_send_low call.

Reported-by: Krzysztof Mazur <krzysiek@podlesie.net>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-07-16 17:48:14 +03:00
Simon Wunderlich 438b61b770 mac80211: fix timing for 5 MHz and 10 MHz channels
according to IEEE 802.11-2012 section 18, various timings change
when using 5 MHz and 10 MHz. Reflect this by using a "shift" when
calculating durations.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
2013-07-16 09:58:04 +03:00
Simon Wunderlich 3de805cf96 mac80211/rc80211: add chandef to rate initialization
5 and 10 MHz support needs to know the current operating channel width,
add the chandef to the rate control API.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
2013-07-16 09:58:02 +03:00
Felix Fietkau 06d961a8e2 mac80211/minstrel: use the new rate control API
Pass the rate selection table to mac80211 from minstrel_update_stats.
Only rates for sample attempts are set in info->control.rates, with deferred
sampling, only the second slot gets changed.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-04-22 16:16:41 +02:00
Felix Fietkau 991fec0910 mac80211: fix CTS protection handling
The rates[0] CTS and RTS flags are only set after rate control has been
called, so minstrel cannot use them to for setting the number of
retries. This patch adds two new flags to explicitly indicate RTS/CTS use.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-04-16 23:42:30 +02:00
Thomas Huehn 2ff2b690c5 mac80211: improve minstrels rate sorting by means of throughput & probability
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>
2013-03-06 16:36:10 +01:00
Thomas Huehn db8c5ee692 mac80211: treat minstrel success probabilities below 10% as implausible
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>
2013-03-06 16:36:09 +01:00
Thomas Huehn f744bf81f7 mac80211: add lowest rate into minstrel's random rate sampling table
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>
2013-03-06 16:36:09 +01:00
Thomas Huehn 1e9c27df7b mac80211: extend minstrel's rate sampling to avoid unsampled rates
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>
2013-03-06 16:36:08 +01:00
Thomas Huehn 8f15761197 mac80211: add documentation and verbose variable names in
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>
2013-03-06 16:36:08 +01:00
Thomas Huehn c8ca8c2f93 mac80211: merge value scaling macros of minstrel_ht and minstrel
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>
2013-03-06 16:36:07 +01:00
Thomas Huehn a512d4b543 mac80211: merge EWMA calculation of minstrel_ht and minstrel
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>
2013-03-06 16:36:06 +01:00
Felix Fietkau a0497f9f57 mac80211/minstrel_ht: add support for using CCK rates
When MCS rates start to get bad in 2.4 GHz because of long range or
strong interference, CCK rates can be a lot more robust.

This patch adds a pseudo MCS group containing CCK rates (long preamble
in the lower 4 slots, short preamble in the upper slots).

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
[make minstrel_ht_get_stats static]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-13 10:56:33 +01:00
Johannes Berg 8acbcddb5f minstrel: update stats after processing status
Instead of updating stats before sending a packet,
update them after processing the packet's status.
This makes minstrel in line with minstrel_ht.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-12-10 22:51:50 +01:00
Michal Kazior 4ee73f338a mac80211: remove hw.conf.channel usage where possible
Removes hw.conf.channel usage from the following functions:
 * ieee80211_mandatory_rates
 * ieee80211_sta_get_rates
 * ieee80211_frame_duration
 * ieee80211_rts_duration
 * ieee80211_ctstoself_duration

This is in preparation for multi-channel operation.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-13 14:32:50 -04:00
Patrick Kelle 868a5f719d minstrel: Remove unused function parameter in calc_rate_durations()
Signed-off-by: Patrick Kelle <patrick.kelle81@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-11 12:32:52 -05:00
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
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
John W. Linville ea65145da8 minstrel: don't complain about feedback for unrequested rates
"It's not problematic if minstrel gets feedback for rates that it
doesn't have in its list, it should just ignore it. - Felix"

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
2010-07-26 15:09:04 -04:00
David S. Miller 871039f02f Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c
	net/core/ethtool.c
	net/mac80211/scan.c
2010-04-11 14:53:53 -07:00
Tejun Heo 5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Felix Fietkau eae44756d6 minstrel: make the rate control ops reusable from another rc implementation
This patch makes it possible to reuse the minstrel rate control ops
from another rate control module. This is useful in preparing for the
new 802.11n implementation of minstrel, which will reuse the old code
for legacy stations.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-10 17:44:23 -05:00
Pavel Roskin 8c6c03fe23 rc80211_minstrel: fix contention window calculation
The contention window is supposed to be a power of two minus one, i.e.
15, 31, 63, 127...  minstrel_rate_init() forgets to subtract 1, so the
sequence becomes 15, 32, 66, 134...

Bug reported by Dan Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-16 16:21:00 -04:00
Javier Cardona bfc32e6a95 mac80211: Decouple fail_avg stats used by mesh from rate control algorithm.
Mesh uses the tx failure average to compute the (m)path metric.  This used to
be done inside the rate control module.  This patch breaks the dependency
between the mesh stack and the rate control algorithm.  Mesh will now work
independently of the chosen rate control algorithm.

The mesh stack keeps a moving average of the average transmission losses for
each mesh peer station.  If the fail average exceeds a certain threshold, the
peer link is marked as broken.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20 11:36:02 -04:00
Javier Cardona 5815814bfa 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>
2009-08-14 09:14:01 -04:00
Javier Cardona d403a1c66e mac80211: Update the station failed frames average when minstrel is used.
The fail_avg value is used to compute the mesh metric, and was only being set
by the pid rate control module. This fixes the mesh path selection mechanism
for cards that use mistrel for rate control.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:14:00 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 4c6d4f5c33 mac80211: add helper for management / no-ack frame rate decision
All current rate control algorithms agree to send management and no-ack
frames at the lowest rate. They also agree to do this when sta
and the private rate control data is NULL. We add a hlper to mac80211
for this and simplify the rate control algorithm code.

Developers wishing to make enhancements to rate control algorithms
are for broadcast/multicast can opt to not use this in their
gate_rate() mac80211 callback.

Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: Derek Smithies <derek@indranet.co.nz>
Cc: Chittajit Mitra <Chittajit.Mitra@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:16 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez e898643658 mac80211: make minstrel/pid RC use ieee80211_is_data(fc)
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: Derek Smithies <derek@indranet.co.nz>
Cc: Chittajit Mitra <Chittajit.Mitra@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:16 -04:00
Luciano Coelho 3938b45c1c mac80211: minstrel: avoid accessing negative indices in rix_to_ndx()
If rix is not found in mi->r[], i will become -1 after the loop.  This value
is eventually used to access arrays, so we were accessing arrays with a
negative index, which is obviously not what we want to do.  This patch fixes
this potential problem.

Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-07 12:55:28 -04:00
Bob Copeland 5ee58d7e6a mac80211: fix minstrel single-rate memory corruption
The minstrel rate controller periodically looks up rate indexes in
a sampling table.  When accessing a specific row and column, minstrel
correctly does a bounds check which, on the surface, appears to handle
the case where mi->n_rates < 2.  However, mi->sample_idx is actually
defined as an unsigned, so the right hand side is taken to be a huge
positive number when negative, and the check will always fail.

Consequently, the RC will overrun the array and cause random memory
corruption when communicating with a peer that has only a single rate.
The max value of mi->sample_idx is around 25 so casting to int should
have no ill effects.

Without the change, uptime is a few minutes under load with an AP
that has a single hard-coded rate, and both the AP and STA could
potentially crash.  With the change, both lasted 12 hours with a
steady load.

Thanks to Ognjen Maric for providing the single-rate clue so I could
reproduce this.

This fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12490 on the
regression list (also http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13000).

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Sergey S. Kostyliov <rathamahata@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Ognjen Maric <ognjen.maric@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-10 13:27:51 -04:00
David S. Miller bb803cfbec Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c
2009-05-18 21:08:20 -07:00
John W. Linville 621ad7c96a mac80211: avoid NULL ptr deref when finding max_rates in PID and minstrel
"There is another problem with this piece of code. The sband will be NULL
after second iteration on single band device and cause null pointer
dereference. Everything is working with dual band card. Sorry, but i
don't know how to explain this clearly in English. I have looked on the
second patch for pid algorithm and found similar bug."

Reported-by: Karol Szuster <qflon@o2.pl>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-11 15:07:01 -04:00
David S. Miller a8679be207 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2009-05-08 12:46:17 -07:00