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authorFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>2016-03-03 23:25:42 +0100
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2016-04-05 11:40:06 +0200
commit06171e9c0bd54bd7dde67dfb2fa4cced23cff880 (patch)
tree5231a7933947f2163e395e105f425dde6f184082
parentmac80211: do not pass injected frames without a valid rate to the driver (diff)
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mac80211: minstrel_ht: improve sample rate skip logic
There were a few issues that were slowing down the process of finding the optimal rate, especially on devices with multi-rate retry limitations: When max_tp_rate[0] was slower than max_tp_rate[1], the code did not sample max_tp_rate[1], which would often allow it to switch places with max_tp_rate[0] (e.g. if only the first sampling attempts were bad, but the rate is otherwise good). Also, sample attempts of rates between max_tp_rate[0] and [1] were being ignored in this case, because the code only checked if the rate was slower than [1]. Fix this by checking against the fastest / second fastest max_tp_rate instead of assuming a specific order between the two. In my tests this patch significantly reduces the time until minstrel_ht finds the optimal rate right after assoc Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c23
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c
index 370d677b547b..46ce08ed70b5 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c
@@ -924,6 +924,7 @@ minstrel_get_sample_rate(struct minstrel_priv *mp, struct minstrel_ht_sta *mi)
struct minstrel_rate_stats *mrs;
struct minstrel_mcs_group_data *mg;
unsigned int sample_dur, sample_group, cur_max_tp_streams;
+ int tp_rate1, tp_rate2;
int sample_idx = 0;
if (mi->sample_wait > 0) {
@@ -945,14 +946,22 @@ minstrel_get_sample_rate(struct minstrel_priv *mp, struct minstrel_ht_sta *mi)
mrs = &mg->rates[sample_idx];
sample_idx += sample_group * MCS_GROUP_RATES;
+ /* Set tp_rate1, tp_rate2 to the highest / second highest max_tp_rate */
+ if (minstrel_get_duration(mi->max_tp_rate[0]) >
+ minstrel_get_duration(mi->max_tp_rate[1])) {
+ tp_rate1 = mi->max_tp_rate[1];
+ tp_rate2 = mi->max_tp_rate[0];
+ } else {
+ tp_rate1 = mi->max_tp_rate[0];
+ tp_rate2 = mi->max_tp_rate[1];
+ }
+
/*
* Sampling might add some overhead (RTS, no aggregation)
- * to the frame. Hence, don't use sampling for the currently
- * used rates.
+ * to the frame. Hence, don't use sampling for the highest currently
+ * used highest throughput or probability rate.
*/
- if (sample_idx == mi->max_tp_rate[0] ||
- sample_idx == mi->max_tp_rate[1] ||
- sample_idx == mi->max_prob_rate)
+ if (sample_idx == mi->max_tp_rate[0] || sample_idx == mi->max_prob_rate)
return -1;
/*
@@ -967,10 +976,10 @@ minstrel_get_sample_rate(struct minstrel_priv *mp, struct minstrel_ht_sta *mi)
* if the link is working perfectly.
*/
- cur_max_tp_streams = minstrel_mcs_groups[mi->max_tp_rate[0] /
+ cur_max_tp_streams = minstrel_mcs_groups[tp_rate1 /
MCS_GROUP_RATES].streams;
sample_dur = minstrel_get_duration(sample_idx);
- if (sample_dur >= minstrel_get_duration(mi->max_tp_rate[1]) &&
+ if (sample_dur >= minstrel_get_duration(tp_rate2) &&
(cur_max_tp_streams - 1 <
minstrel_mcs_groups[sample_group].streams ||
sample_dur >= minstrel_get_duration(mi->max_prob_rate))) {