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| author | Linus Lüssing <ll@simonwunderlich.de> | 2020-06-17 09:30:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2020-07-31 09:24:23 +0200 |
| commit | e3718a611470d311a92c60d4eb535270b49a7108 (patch) | |
| tree | 3e5daf705d3dfd6cc2a128623e0e4dbc897d8aac /net/wireless/nl80211.c | |
| parent | cfg80211: allow the low level driver to flush the BSS table (diff) | |
| download | linux-e3718a611470d311a92c60d4eb535270b49a7108.tar.xz linux-e3718a611470d311a92c60d4eb535270b49a7108.zip | |
cfg80211/mac80211: add mesh_param "mesh_nolearn" to skip path discovery
Currently, before being able to forward a packet between two 802.11s
nodes, both a PLINK handshake is performed upon receiving a beacon and
then later a PREQ/PREP exchange for path discovery is performed on
demand upon receiving a data frame to forward.
When running a mesh protocol on top of an 802.11s interface, like
batman-adv, we do not need the multi-hop mesh routing capabilities of
802.11s and usually set mesh_fwding=0. However, even with mesh_fwding=0
the PREQ/PREP path discovery is still performed on demand. Even though
in this scenario the next hop PREQ/PREP will determine is always the
direct 11s neighbor node.
The new mesh_nolearn parameter allows to skip the PREQ/PREP exchange in
this scenario, leading to a reduced delay, reduced packet buffering and
simplifies HWMP in general.
mesh_nolearn is still rather conservative in that if the packet destination
is not a direct 11s neighbor, it will fall back to PREQ/PREP path
discovery.
For normal, multi-hop 802.11s mesh routing it is usually not advisable
to enable mesh_nolearn as a transmission to a direct but distant neighbor
might be worse than reaching that same node via a more robust /
higher throughput etc. multi-hop path.
Cc: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Cc: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <ll@simonwunderlich.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200617073034.26149-1-linus.luessing@c0d3.blue
[fix nl80211 policy to range 0/1 only]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless/nl80211.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/wireless/nl80211.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c index 6fdf818f66cf..257c06315464 100644 --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c @@ -6885,7 +6885,9 @@ static int nl80211_get_mesh_config(struct sk_buff *skb, nla_put_u32(msg, NL80211_MESHCONF_PLINK_TIMEOUT, cur_params.plink_timeout) || nla_put_u8(msg, NL80211_MESHCONF_CONNECTED_TO_GATE, - cur_params.dot11MeshConnectedToMeshGate)) + cur_params.dot11MeshConnectedToMeshGate) || + nla_put_u8(msg, NL80211_MESHCONF_NOLEARN, + cur_params.dot11MeshNolearn)) goto nla_put_failure; nla_nest_end(msg, pinfoattr); genlmsg_end(msg, hdr); @@ -6943,6 +6945,7 @@ nl80211_meshconf_params_policy[NL80211_MESHCONF_ATTR_MAX+1] = { [NL80211_MESHCONF_AWAKE_WINDOW] = { .type = NLA_U16 }, [NL80211_MESHCONF_PLINK_TIMEOUT] = { .type = NLA_U32 }, [NL80211_MESHCONF_CONNECTED_TO_GATE] = NLA_POLICY_RANGE(NLA_U8, 0, 1), + [NL80211_MESHCONF_NOLEARN] = NLA_POLICY_RANGE(NLA_U8, 0, 1), }; static const struct nla_policy @@ -7094,6 +7097,8 @@ do { \ NL80211_MESHCONF_AWAKE_WINDOW, nla_get_u16); FILL_IN_MESH_PARAM_IF_SET(tb, cfg, plink_timeout, mask, NL80211_MESHCONF_PLINK_TIMEOUT, nla_get_u32); + FILL_IN_MESH_PARAM_IF_SET(tb, cfg, dot11MeshNolearn, mask, + NL80211_MESHCONF_NOLEARN, nla_get_u8); if (mask_out) *mask_out = mask; |