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author | Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> | 2006-05-01 23:45:50 +0200 |
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committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2006-05-05 23:10:41 +0200 |
commit | 8462fe3cd9ec8951871a20a4dfe36321ab075964 (patch) | |
tree | 8b3c6db6091ee99b4791a911734229181ef6f473 /include/net | |
parent | [PATCH] orinoco: don't put PCI resource data to the network device (diff) | |
download | linux-8462fe3cd9ec8951871a20a4dfe36321ab075964.tar.xz linux-8462fe3cd9ec8951871a20a4dfe36321ab075964.zip |
[PATCH] softmac: suggest per-frame-type TX rate
This patch is the first step towards rate control inside softmac.
The txrates substructure has been extended to provide
different fields for different types of packets (management/data,
unicast/multicast). These fields are updated on association to values
compatible with the access point we are associating to.
Drivers can then use the new ieee80211softmac_suggest_txrate() function
call when deciding which rate to transmit each frame at. This is
immensely useful for ZD1211, and bcm can use it too.
The user can still specify a rate through iwconfig, which is matched
for all transmissions (assuming the rate they have specified is in
the rate set required by the AP).
At a later date, we can incorporate automatic rate management into
the ieee80211softmac_recalc_txrates() function.
This patch also removes the mcast_fallback field. Sam Leffler pointed
out that this field is meaningless, because no driver will ever be
retransmitting mcast frames (they are not acked).
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
-rw-r--r-- | include/net/ieee80211softmac.h | 38 |
1 files changed, 33 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/ieee80211softmac.h b/include/net/ieee80211softmac.h index 052ed596a4e4..703463a8828b 100644 --- a/include/net/ieee80211softmac.h +++ b/include/net/ieee80211softmac.h @@ -86,6 +86,9 @@ struct ieee80211softmac_assoc_info { /* BSSID we're trying to associate to */ char bssid[ETH_ALEN]; + + /* Rates supported by the network */ + struct ieee80211softmac_ratesinfo supported_rates; /* some flags. * static_essid is valid if the essid is constant, @@ -132,23 +135,26 @@ enum { struct ieee80211softmac_txrates { /* The Bit-Rate to be used for multicast frames. */ u8 mcast_rate; - /* The Bit-Rate to be used for multicast fallback - * (If the device supports fallback and hardware-retry) - */ - u8 mcast_fallback; + + /* The Bit-Rate to be used for multicast management frames. */ + u8 mgt_mcast_rate; + /* The Bit-Rate to be used for any other (normal) data packet. */ u8 default_rate; /* The Bit-Rate to be used for default fallback * (If the device supports fallback and hardware-retry) */ u8 default_fallback; + + /* This is the rate that the user asked for */ + u8 user_rate; }; /* Bits for txrates_change callback. */ #define IEEE80211SOFTMAC_TXRATECHG_DEFAULT (1 << 0) /* default_rate */ #define IEEE80211SOFTMAC_TXRATECHG_DEFAULT_FBACK (1 << 1) /* default_fallback */ #define IEEE80211SOFTMAC_TXRATECHG_MCAST (1 << 2) /* mcast_rate */ -#define IEEE80211SOFTMAC_TXRATECHG_MCAST_FBACK (1 << 3) /* mcast_fallback */ +#define IEEE80211SOFTMAC_TXRATECHG_MGT_MCAST (1 << 3) /* mgt_mcast_rate */ struct ieee80211softmac_device { /* 802.11 structure for data stuff */ @@ -250,6 +256,28 @@ extern void ieee80211softmac_fragment_lost(struct net_device *dev, * Note that the rates need to be sorted. */ extern void ieee80211softmac_set_rates(struct net_device *dev, u8 count, u8 *rates); +/* Helper function which advises you the rate at which a frame should be + * transmitted at. */ +static inline u8 ieee80211softmac_suggest_txrate(struct ieee80211softmac_device *mac, + int is_multicast, + int is_mgt) +{ + struct ieee80211softmac_txrates *txrates = &mac->txrates; + + if (!mac->associated) + return txrates->mgt_mcast_rate; + + /* We are associated, sending unicast frame */ + if (!is_multicast) + return txrates->default_rate; + + /* We are associated, sending multicast frame */ + if (is_mgt) + return txrates->mgt_mcast_rate; + else + return txrates->mcast_rate; +} + /* Start the SoftMAC. Call this after you initialized the device * and it is ready to run. */ |