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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00.h | 99 |
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 64 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00.h b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00.h index 8935f2c005ce..dea502234cf8 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00.h +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00.h @@ -177,52 +177,41 @@ struct antenna_setup { */ struct link_qual { /* - * Statistics required for Link tuning. - * For the average RSSI value we use the "Walking average" approach. - * When adding RSSI to the average value the following calculation - * is needed: - * - * avg_rssi = ((avg_rssi * 7) + rssi) / 8; + * Statistics required for Link tuning by driver + * The rssi value is provided by rt2x00lib during the + * link_tuner() callback function. + * The false_cca field is filled during the link_stats() + * callback function and could be used during the + * link_tuner() callback function. + */ + int rssi; + int false_cca; + + /* + * VGC levels + * Hardware driver will tune the VGC level during each call + * to the link_tuner() callback function. This vgc_level is + * is determined based on the link quality statistics like + * average RSSI and the false CCA count. * - * The advantage of this approach is that we only need 1 variable - * to store the average in (No need for a count and a total). - * But more importantly, normal average values will over time - * move less and less towards newly added values this results - * that with link tuning, the device can have a very good RSSI - * for a few minutes but when the device is moved away from the AP - * the average will not decrease fast enough to compensate. - * The walking average compensates this and will move towards - * the new values correctly allowing a effective link tuning. + * In some cases the drivers need to differentiate between + * the currently "desired" VGC level and the level configured + * in the hardware. The latter is important to reduce the + * number of BBP register reads to reduce register access + * overhead. For this reason we store both values here. */ - int avg_rssi; - int false_cca; + u8 vgc_level; + u8 vgc_level_reg; /* * Statistics required for Signal quality calculation. - * For calculating the Signal quality we have to determine - * the total number of success and failed RX and TX frames. - * After that we also use the average RSSI value to help - * determining the signal quality. - * For the calculation we will use the following algorithm: - * - * rssi_percentage = (avg_rssi * 100) / rssi_offset - * rx_percentage = (rx_success * 100) / rx_total - * tx_percentage = (tx_success * 100) / tx_total - * avg_signal = ((WEIGHT_RSSI * avg_rssi) + - * (WEIGHT_TX * tx_percentage) + - * (WEIGHT_RX * rx_percentage)) / 100 - * - * This value should then be checked to not be greater then 100. + * These fields might be changed during the link_stats() + * callback function. */ - int rx_percentage; int rx_success; int rx_failed; - int tx_percentage; int tx_success; int tx_failed; -#define WEIGHT_RSSI 20 -#define WEIGHT_RX 40 -#define WEIGHT_TX 40 }; /* @@ -286,14 +275,16 @@ struct link { struct link_ant ant; /* - * Active VGC level (for false cca tuning) + * Currently active average RSSI value */ - u8 vgc_level; + int avg_rssi; /* - * VGC level as configured in register + * Currently precalculated percentages of successful + * TX and RX frames. */ - u8 vgc_level_reg; + int rx_percentage; + int tx_percentage; /* * Work structure for scheduling periodic link tuning. @@ -302,28 +293,6 @@ struct link { }; /* - * Small helper macro to work with moving/walking averages. - */ -#define MOVING_AVERAGE(__avg, __val, __samples) \ - ( (((__avg) * ((__samples) - 1)) + (__val)) / (__samples) ) - -/* - * When we lack RSSI information return something less then -80 to - * tell the driver to tune the device to maximum sensitivity. - */ -#define DEFAULT_RSSI ( -128 ) - -/* - * Link quality access functions. - */ -static inline int rt2x00_get_link_rssi(struct link *link) -{ - if (link->qual.avg_rssi && link->qual.rx_success) - return link->qual.avg_rssi; - return DEFAULT_RSSI; -} - -/* * Interface structure * Per interface configuration details, this structure * is allocated as the private data for ieee80211_vif. @@ -522,8 +491,10 @@ struct rt2x00lib_ops { int (*rfkill_poll) (struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev); void (*link_stats) (struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev, struct link_qual *qual); - void (*reset_tuner) (struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev); - void (*link_tuner) (struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev); + void (*reset_tuner) (struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev, + struct link_qual *qual); + void (*link_tuner) (struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev, + struct link_qual *qual, const u32 count); /* * TX control handlers |