Johannes Berg says:
====================
For the next cycle, we have the following:
* the biggest change is Michał's work on integrating FQ/codel
with the mac80211 internal software queues
* cfg80211 connect result gets clarified for the
"no connection at all" case
* advertisement of per-interface type capabilities, in case
they differ (which makes a lot of sense for some capabilities)
* most of the nl80211 & hwsim unprivileged namespace operation
changes
* human-readable VHT capabilities in debugfs
* some other cleanups, like spelling
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
There is no other limit other than a global
packet count limit when using software queuing.
This means a single flow queue can grow insanely
long. This is particularly bad for TCP congestion
algorithms which requires a little more
sophisticated frame dropping scheme than a mere
headdrop on limit overflow.
Hence apply (a slighly modified, to fit the knobs)
CoDel5 on flow queues. This improves TCP
convergence and stability when combined with
wireless driver which keeps its own tx queue/fifo
at a minimum fill level for given link conditions.
Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This adds a debugfs entry to read and modify some fq parameters.
This makes it easy to debug, test and experiment.
Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
[remove module parameter for now]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
mac80211's software queues were designed to work
very closely with device tx queues. They are
required to make use of 802.11 packet aggregation
easily and efficiently.
Due to the way 802.11 aggregation is designed it
only makes sense to keep fair queuing as close to
hardware as possible to reduce induced latency and
inertia and provide the best flow responsiveness.
This change doesn't translate directly to
immediate and significant gains. End result
depends on driver's induced latency. Best results
can be achieved if driver keeps its own tx
queue/fifo fill level to a minimum.
Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Qdiscs are designed with no regard to 802.11
aggregation requirements and hand out
packet-by-packet with no guarantee they are
destined to the same tid. This does more bad than
good no matter how fairly a given qdisc may behave
on an ethernet interface.
Software queuing used per-AC netdev subqueue
congestion control whenever a global AC limit was
hit. This meant in practice a single station or
tid queue could starve others rather easily. This
could resonate with qdiscs in a bad way or could
just end up with poor aggregation performance.
Increasing the AC limit would increase induced
latency which is also bad.
Disabling qdiscs by default and performing
taildrop instead of netdev subqueue congestion
control on the other hand makes it possible for
tid queues to fill up "in the meantime" while
preventing stations starving each other.
This increases aggregation opportunities and
should allow software queuing based drivers
achieve better performance by utilizing airtime
more efficiently with big aggregates.
Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This makes it a lot easier to understand the capabilities used
by the station:
VHT supported
cap: 0x300819b2
MAX-MPDU-11454
80Mhz
RXLDPC
SHORT-GI-80
TXSTBC
RXSTBC_1
SU-BEAMFORMER-CAPABLE
SU-BEAMFORMEE-CAPABLE
BEAMFORMEE-STS: 0x0
SOUNDING-DIMENSIONS: 0x0
MU-BEAMFORMER-CAPABLE
MPDU-LENGTH-EXPONENT: 0x0
LINK-ADAPTATION-VHT-MRQ-MFB: 0x0
RX-ANTENNA-PATTERN
TX-ANTENNA-PATTERN
RX MCS: fffe
TX MCS: fffe
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
The header field is defined as u8[] but also accessed as struct
ieee80211_hdr. Enforce an alignment of 2 to prevent unnecessary
unaligned accesses, which can be very harmful for performance on many
platforms.
Fixes: e495c24731 ("mac80211: extend fast-xmit for more ciphers")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Johannes Berg says:
====================
Some more work for 4.7, notably:
* completion and fixups of nla_put_64_64bit() work
* remove a/b/g/n from wext nickname to avoid confusion
with 11ac (which wouldn't even fit fully there due to
string length restrictions)
along with some other minor changes/cleanups.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When using RSS, frames might not be processed in the correct order,
and thus AP_LINK_PS must be used; most likely with firmware keeping
track of the powersave state, this is the case in iwlwifi now.
In this case, the driver can use ieee80211_sta_ps_transition() to
still have mac80211 manage powersave buffering. However, for U-APSD
and PS-Poll this isn't sufficient. If the device can't manage that
entirely on its own, mac80211's code should be used.
To allow this, export two functions: ieee80211_sta_uapsd_trigger()
and ieee80211_sta_pspoll().
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Some hardware (iwlwifi an example) de-aggregate AMSDUs and copy the IV
as is to the generated MPDUs, so the same PN appears in multiple
packets without being a replay attack. Allow driver to explicitly
indicate that a frame is allowed to have the same PN as the previous
frame.
Signed-off-by: Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
In some cases, after a sudden AP disappearing and reconnection to
another AP in the same ESS, user space gets the old AP in scan
results (cached). User space may decide to roam to that old AP
which will cause a disconnection and longer recovery.
Remove APs that are probably out of range from BSS table.
Signed-off-by: David Spinadel <david.spinadel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Conflicts:
net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
Minor conflicts between tunnel bug fixes in net and
ipv6 tunnel cleanups in net-next.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In the case that dev_alloc_name() fails, e.g. because the name was
given by the user and already exists, we need to clean up properly
and free the per-CPU statistics. Fix that.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 5a490510ba ("mac80211: use per-CPU TX/RX statistics")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This enum is already perfectly aliased to enum nl80211_band, and
the only reason for it is that we get IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS out of
it. There's no really good reason to not declare the number of
bands in nl80211 though, so do that and remove the cfg80211 one.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This fixes:
net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c:603:26: warning: ‘target_metric’ may be used uninitialized in this function
target_metric is only consumed when reply = true so no bug exists here,
but not all versions of gcc realize it. Initialize to 0 to remove the
warning.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Prevents excessive A-MSDU aggregation at low data rates or bad
conditions.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Requires software tx queueing and fast-xmit support. For good
performance, drivers need frag_list support as well. This avoids the
need for copying data of aggregated frames. Running without it is only
supported for debugging purposes.
To avoid performance and packet size issues, the rate control module or
driver needs to limit the maximum A-MSDU size by setting
max_rc_amsdu_len in struct ieee80211_sta.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
[fix locking issue]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
If the driver advertises the new HW flag USE_RSS, make the
station statistics on the fast-rx path per-CPU. This will
enable calling the RX in parallel, only hitting locking or
shared cachelines when the fast-RX path isn't available.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
The regular RX path has a lot of code, but with a few
assumptions on the hardware it's possible to reduce the
amount of code significantly. Currently the assumptions
on the driver are the following:
* hardware/driver reordering buffer (if supporting aggregation)
* hardware/driver decryption & PN checking (if using encryption)
* hardware/driver did de-duplication
* hardware/driver did A-MSDU deaggregation
* AP_LINK_PS is used (in AP mode)
* no client powersave handling in mac80211 (in client mode)
of which some are actually checked per packet:
* de-duplication
* PN checking
* decryption
and additionally packets must
* not be A-MSDU (have been deaggregated by driver/device)
* be data packets
* not be fragmented
* be unicast
* have RFC 1042 header
Additionally dynamically we assume:
* no encryption or CCMP/GCMP, TKIP/WEP/other not allowed
* station must be authorized
* 4-addr format not enabled
Some data needed for the RX path is cached in a new per-station
"fast_rx" structure, so that we only need to look at this and
the packet, no other memory when processing packets on the fast
RX path.
After doing the above per-packet checks, the data path collapses
down to a pretty simple conversion function taking advantage of
the data cached in the small fast_rx struct.
This should speed up the RX processing, and will make it easier
to reason about parallelizing RX (for which statistics will need
to be per-CPU still.)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
On 32-bit platforms, the 64-bit counters we keep need to be protected
to be consistently read. Use the u64_stats_sync mechanism to do that.
In order to not end up with overly long lines, refactor the tidstats
assignments a bit.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
When storing the last_rate_* values in the RX code, there's nothing
to guarantee consistency, so a concurrent reader could see, e.g.
last_rate_idx on the new value, but last_rate_flag still on the old,
getting completely bogus values in the end.
To fix this, I lifted the sta_stats_encode_rate() function from my
old rate statistics code, which encodes the entire rate data into a
single 16-bit value, avoiding the consistency issue.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Instead of touching the rx_stats.last_rx from the status path, introduce
and use a status_stats.last_ack variable. This will make rx_stats.last_rx
indicate when the last frame was received, making it available for real
"last_rx" and statistics gathering; statistics, when done per-CPU, will
need to figure out which place was updated last for those items where the
"last" value is exposed.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
There's no need to update rx_stats.last_rx after allocating
a station since it's already updated during allocation.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
David S. Miller
Michal Kazior
Ben Greear
Felix Fietkau
Bob Copeland
Johannes Berg
Sara Sharon
David Spinadel
Jeff Mahoney
Felix Fietkau