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| author | Björn Smedman <bjorn.smedman@venatech.se> | 2010-10-10 22:14:25 +0200 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2010-10-11 21:04:24 +0200 |
| commit | 15d46f38df87f89242e470f5797120fa384c1fc3 (patch) | |
| tree | 94f88d22a0d43ed99cbc9289ea8ee89a15a71851 /net | |
| parent | mac80211: don't kmalloc 16 bytes (diff) | |
| download | linux-15d46f38df87f89242e470f5797120fa384c1fc3.tar.xz linux-15d46f38df87f89242e470f5797120fa384c1fc3.zip | |
mac80211: minstrel_ht A-MPDU fix
This patch fixes two problems with the minstrel_ht rate control
algorithms handling of A-MPDU frames:
1. The ampdu_len field of the tx status is not always initialized for
non-HT frames (and it would probably be unreasonable to require all
drivers to do so). This could cause rate control statistics to be
corrupted. We now trust the ampdu_len and ampdu_ack_len fields only when
the frame is marked with the IEEE80211_TX_STAT_AMPDU flag.
2. Successful transmission attempts where only recognized when the A-MPDU
subframe carrying the rate control status information was marked with the
IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK flag. If this information happed to be carried on a
frame that failed to be ACKed then the other subframes (which may have
succeeded) where not correctly registered. We now update rate control
statistics regardless of whether the subframe carrying the information was
ACKed or not.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Björn Smedman <bjorn.smedman@venatech.se>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c index c5b465904e3b..2a18d6602d4a 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c +++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c @@ -397,8 +397,9 @@ minstrel_ht_tx_status(void *priv, struct ieee80211_supported_band *sband, !(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_STAT_AMPDU)) return; - if (!info->status.ampdu_len) { - info->status.ampdu_ack_len = 1; + if (!(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_STAT_AMPDU)) { + info->status.ampdu_ack_len = + (info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK ? 1 : 0); info->status.ampdu_len = 1; } @@ -426,7 +427,7 @@ minstrel_ht_tx_status(void *priv, struct ieee80211_supported_band *sband, group = minstrel_ht_get_group_idx(&ar[i]); rate = &mi->groups[group].rates[ar[i].idx % 8]; - if (last && (info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK)) + if (last) rate->success += info->status.ampdu_ack_len; rate->attempts += ar[i].count * info->status.ampdu_len; |