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>
iwl-agn-rs.c already uses this.
Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Cc: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This removes the work around implemented for transmitting on
an unsupported band on iwlwifi. This was added via the patch:
8e1856e82cb8f541e925738bebfbc473420cda68:
iwlwifi: fix rs_get_rate WARN_ON()
Cc: Mohamed Abbas <mohamed.abbas@intel.com>
Cc: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch unifies 3945 and AGN station management
It also removes useless struct iwl_station_mgmt ops
and cleanups a bit the interface
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Tested-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Make iwl-{3945|agn}-rs check for IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK instead of
is_multicast_ether_addr when determining whether to use the lowest
rate, and set the retry count to 0 (total try count = 1) if
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK is set.
Signed-off-by: Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Patch unifies the add_station function for 3945 and iwlwifi drivers.
Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Control the rate decrease. Do not decrease the rate fast.
Use success_ratio for rate scaling :)
Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Patch fixes the bug 1900 at
http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1900
Issues:
Throughput and success ratio calculations were not done properly.
Number of retries were exceeding 16.
Fix:
Patch fixes above issues by doing window calculations inline with iwlwifi
Patch adds sanity check to limit number of retries to 16.
Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mohamed Abbas <mohamed.abbas@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Reduce stack memory footprint of iwlwifi.
(From >1000 bytes for each *_table_read
on i386 down to 32)
Signed-off-by: Frank Seidel <frank@f-seidel.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Call IWL_DEBUG macro with explicit priv argument.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds __maybe_unused attribute to priv variables used in
functions that used it solely for debug printouts
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Cc: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The iwl_rxon_cmd is really just a iwl3945_rxon_cmd structure extension.
So, we can use the *_rxon fields from iwl_priv instead of the 3945 specific
ones (*39_rxon). We have to then be careful when submitting REPLY_RXON host
commands, since the command length as to be set according to the HW. As
another precaution the reserved4 and reserved5 fields are cleared before being
sent to the 3945.
With the *39_rxon removal, a lot of duplicated code can be removed from the
3945 code base.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
allow user to set max rate through #iwconfig <inteface> rate XXX.
mac80211 will try to force this if user set it, but driver is not
in sync which cause mac80211 to report wrong current rate. This
patch will check if max rate is set and force it in rate scaling
Signed-off-by: mohamed abbas <mohamed.abbas@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The patch replaces iwl3945_priv to iwl_priv. It adds 3945 specific
data members to iwl_priv.
Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The patch renames iwl3945 specific variables in iwl3945_priv
structure. iwl3945_priv structure differs with iwl_priv structure
with these variables. Goal of this patch is to make transition from
iwl3945_priv to iwl_priv smoothly.
Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
A lot of rate relates definition are shared between iwl-3945-rs.h and
iwl-agn-rs.h. Let's just use the agn version, and add the 3945 specific
constants there.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
At the cost of adding a debug_level field to iwl3945_priv, we are now able to
get rid of iwl-3945-debug.h, and use iwl-debug.h instead.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch remove iwl-3945-commands.h
eliminating duplicated and moving all definitions to iwl-commands.h
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch uses iwl-commands.h also for iwl3945
more clean ups are required but this get to stage where it
compiles cleanly.
Most massive changes are in spectrum and power managment.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch unfolds includes of iwl-3945-commands.h
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In ieee80211_sta structure there is u64 supp_rates[IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS]
this is filled with all support rate from assoc_resp. If we associate
with G-band AP only supp_rates of G-band will be set the other band
supp_rates will be set to 0. If the user type this command
this will cause mac80211 to set to new channel, mac80211
does not disassociate in setting new channel, so the active
band is now A-band. then in handling the new essid mac80211 will
kick in the assoc steps which involve sending disassociation frame.
in this mac80211 will WARN_ON sta->supp_rates[A_BAND] == 0.
This fixes:
http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1822http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=rs_get_rate
Signed-off-by: mohamed abbas <mohamed.abbas@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch replaces personal emails with hopefully
always valid Intel Linux Wireless, which will be routed
to a current maintainer
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch make sure we use only CCK rate for B only network.
For 3945 driver, it sets REPLY_RATE_SCALE command every time
we connect to a new network. In this command we set for every
rate the number of try and next rate. The problem mac80211 reports
same mode for both B and G mode as IEEE80211_BAND_2GHZ which will cause
using invalid rate other than CCK in B only network. THis patch
on association will examine sta valid rate on association, if no
OFDM rate in valid available rates it considers it as B only mode so
we can set REPLY_RATE_SCALE command with valid B only network and only
choose CCK rate in rate scaling.
Signed-off-by: Mohamed Abbas <mohamed.abbas@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
3945 rate scaling was broken in recent tree. This patch fix the following:
1- Get TX response info and update rates window.
2- Rate scaling selection.
3- Flush window timer.
Signed-off-by: Mohamed Abbas <mohamed.abbas@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add debugfs support to 3945 driver to display rs info.
Signed-off-by: Mohamed Abbas <mohamed.abbas@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
"Clearing" the rate control algorithm is pointless, none of
the algorithms actually uses this operation and it's not even
invoked properly for all channel switching. Also, there's no
need to since rate control algorithms work per station.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
So after the previous changes we were still unhappy with how
convoluted the API is and decided to make things simpler for
everybody. This completely changes the rate control API, now
taking into account 802.11n with MCS rates and more control,
most drivers don't support that though.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Probably bugs I added.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This converts pretty much everything to print_mac. There were
a few things that had conflicts which I have just dropped for
now, no harm done.
I've built an allyesconfig with this and looked at the files
that weren't built very carefully, but it's a huge patch.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Long awaited, hard work. This patch totally cleans up the rate control
API to remove the requirement to include internal headers outside of
net/mac80211/.
There's one internal use in the PID algorithm left for mesh networking,
we'll have to figure out a way to clean that one up and decide how to
do the peer link evaluation, possibly independent of the rate control
algorithm or via new API.
Additionally, ath9k is left using the cross-inclusion hack for now, we
will add new API where necessary to make this work properly, but right
now I'm not expert enough to do it. It's still off better than before.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The sta_info->txrate_idx member isn't used by all RC algorithms
in the way it was intended to be used, move it into those that
require it (only PID) and keep track in the core code of which
rate was last used for reporting to userspace and the mesh MLME.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
As more preparation for a saner rate control algorithm API,
share the supported rates bitmap in the public API.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This variable in sta_info is only used in a meaningful way
by the Intel RC algorithms, so move it into those.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There's really no reason for mac80211 to be using its
own interface type defines. Use the nl80211 types and
simplify the configuration code a bit: there's no need
to translate them any more now.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch converts mac80211 and all drivers to have transmit
information and status in skb->cb rather than allocating extra
memory for it and copying all the data around. To make it fit,
a union is used where only data that is necessary for all steps
is kept outside of the union.
A number of fixes were done by Ivo, as well as the rt2x00 part
of this patch.
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch modifies struct ieee80211_tx_control to give band
info and the rate index (instead of rate pointers) to drivers.
This mostly serves to reduce the TX control structure size to
make it fit into skb->cb so that the fragmentation code can
put it there and we can think about passing it to drivers that
way in the future.
The rt2x00 driver update was done by Ivo, thanks.
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
this patch removes remaining includes to net/ieee80211.h
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch renames all mac80211 files (except ieee80211_i.h) to get rid
of the useless ieee80211_ prefix.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Having rate registration during module load enables the use of
error checking as well as reliable registration/unregistration
pairing. Previously this was not possible as rate registration
was done during _probe where _probe could be run for more than
one device on the system.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Also fix a copy and paste error in header of iwl-core.c. This file
is not dual licensed.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fix 3945 rate scaling after cfg80211 rate/band changes
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This makes access to the STA hash table/list use RCU to protect
against freeing of items. However, it's not a true RCU, the
copy step is missing: whenever somebody changes a STA item it
is simply updated. This is an existing race condition that is
now somewhat understandable.
This patch also fixes the race key freeing vs. STA destruction
by making sure that sta_info_destroy() is always called under
RTNL and frees the key.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes compilation breakage caused by 'cfg80211 API for
channels/bitrates' patch.
however it doesn't fix the driver's functional problems caused by that
patch.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch creates new cfg80211 wiphy API for channel and bitrate
registration and converts mac80211 and drivers to the new API. The
old mac80211 API is completely ripped out. All drivers (except ath5k)
are updated to the new API, in many cases I expect that optimisations
can be done.
Along with the regulatory code I've also ripped out the
IEEE80211_HW_DEFAULT_REG_DOMAIN_CONFIGURED flag, I believe it to be
unnecessary if the hardware simply gives us whatever channels it wants
to support and we then enable/disable them as required, which is pretty
much required for travelling.
Additionally, the patch adds proper "basic" rate handling for STA
mode interface, AP mode interface will have to have new API added
to allow userspace to set the basic rate set, currently it'll be
empty... However, the basic rate handling will need to be moved to
the BSS conf stuff.
I do expect there to be bugs in this, especially wrt. transmit
power handling where I'm basically clueless about how it should work.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch renames iwl3945_rate_scale_priv to iwl3945_rs_sta as it
better represents the purpose of this variable.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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>
Prefix all symbols with iwl3945_ or iwl4965_ and thus allow building
the driver into the kernel. Also remove all the useless default
statements in Kconfig while we're at it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The iwl3945 and iwl4965 devices share some common structure, but with a
lot of difference split all over. Currently the two drivers share a lot
of headers and use ugly preprocessor magic to manage the difference.
This patch keeps two entirely separate copies of the headers to get rid
of these hacks an ease future development.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fixing various spelling errors and typos. Mostly in comments. In total
27 words were corrected, some of which occurred more than ones.
Signed-Of-By: Ian Schram <ischram@telenet.be>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Luis R. Rodriguez