Extend nl80211 to report an exponential weighted moving average (EWMA) of the
signal value. Since the signal value usually fluctuates between different
packets, an average can be more useful than the value of the last packet.
This uses the recently added generic EWMA library function.
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove ath5k's private moving average implementation in favour of the generic
library version.
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This adds generic functions for calculating Exponentially Weighted Moving
Averages (EWMA). This implementation makes use of a structure which keeps the
EWMA parameters and a scaled up internal representation to reduce rounding
errors.
The original idea for this implementation came from the rt2x00 driver
(rt2x00link.c). I would like to use it in several places in the mac80211 and
ath5k code and I hope it can be useful in many other places in the kernel code.
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The code to handle powersaving stations has a race:
when the powersave flag is lifted from a station,
we could transmit a packet that is being processed
for TX at the same time right away, even if there
are other frames queued for it. This would cause
frame reordering. To fix this, lift the flag only
under the appropriate lock that blocks TX.
Additionally, the code to allow drivers to block a
station while frames for it are on the HW queue is
never re-enabled the station, so traffic would get
stuck indefinitely. Fix this by clearing the flag
for this appropriately.
Finally, as an optimisation, don't do anything if
the driver unblocks an already unblocked station.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In many places we've just hardcoded the
AC numbers -- which is a relic from the
original mac80211 (d80211). Add constants
for them so we know what we're talking
about.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some of the new AR9003 cards do not come with an external EEPROM chip
anymore. Calibration data on these cards is stored in the OTP ROM on
the chip.
This patch adds support for reading this data, and also adds support
for different EEPROM chip sizes (512 bytes instead of 1K).
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since the pointers after the rates in the tx info cannot be used anymore
after frames have been queued, this area can be used to store information
that was previously stored in the ath_buf. With these changes, we can delay
the ath_buf assignment in the aggregation code until aggregates are formed.
That will not only make it possible to simplify DMA descriptor setup to
do less rewriting of uncached memory, but will also make it easier to
move aggregation out of the core of the ath9k tx path.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
- remove the BUF_HT flag, and instead check for IEEE80211_TX_CTL_AMPDU
before calling ath_tx_send_ampdu.
- remove a few unused variables
- calculate frame length before adding the frame padding
- merge the misnamed ath_tx_start_dma function into ath_tx_start
- remove an unused argument for assign_aggr_tid_seqno
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Merge initial processing for the CAB queue and regular tx.
Also move ath_tx_cabq() to beacon.c and make it static.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When send out skb data to mac80211, orignal code will cause mac80211
unaligned access, so modify code to make mac80211 can natural access.
Signed-off-by: RA-Jay Hung <jay_hung@ralinktech.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Put the assignment of header_length after pull out extra tx headroom
Signed-off-by: RA-Jay Hung <jay_hung@ralinktech.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
rt2800usb chips need to add 1~3 bytes zero padding after each 802.11 header & payload,
and at the end need to add 4 bytes zero padding whether doing TX bulk aggregation or not,
TXINFO_W0_USB_DMA_TX_PKT_LEN in TXINFO must include 1-3 bytes padding after 802.11 header & payload
but do not include 4 bytes end zero padding.
In rt2800usb_get_tx_data_len do not consider multiple of the USB packet size case, sometimes this will
cause USB DMA problem.
Signed-off-by: RA-Jay Hung <jay_hung@ralinktech.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Make the code a bit more portable to architectures that do not support
KSEG1ADDR.
Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
CONFIG_RT2800PCI_PCI and CONFIG_RT2800PCI_SOC are strictly not needed
as we can check the dependent symbols directly in the rest of Kconfig
and the code, so clean up the Kconfig namespace a bit.
Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Enabling of RT30xx devices via Kconfig variables was introduced when these
devices weren't properly supported yet.
Now that that they are properly supported and functional, we can remove these
Kconfig variables for RT30xx devices and simply enable them whenever rt2800pci
and/or rt2800usb is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
General clean up of the Kconfig part for RT28XX devices.
Also remove the indications of non functional support for rt27xx/rt28xx/rt30xx
devices, as this is no longer true. They just work fine.
Finally, remove the experimental indications for rt27xx/rt28xx/rt30xx devices
as that is no longer true. Keep the experimental indications for rt33xx/rt35xx
devices, though.
Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Modified from Eddy's patch by adding the RT3370 USB support as well.
Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Cc: Eddy Tsai <Eddy_Tsai@ralinktech.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
For some hardware the REGISTER_BUSY_COUNT isn't sufficient,
increase the REGISTER_BUSY_COUNT to 100 to catch most
devices which have more problems with accessing the registers.
For normal operating devices nothing would change as they will
exit the loop early anyway.
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The calibration data variable size is based on the number of
channels available in the ath9k driver.
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subtract of jiffies is fine even if one variable overwrap.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We can simplify length calculation in iwlagn_tx_skb, that function
is enough complex, without fuzz it more than necessary.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Chipsets with hardware based connection monitoring need to autonomically
send directed probe-request frames to the AP (in the event of beacon loss,
for example.)
For the hardware to be able to do this, it requires a template for the frame
to transmit to the AP, filled in with the BSSID and SSID of the AP, but also
the supported rate IE's.
This patch adds a function to mac80211, which allows the hardware driver to
fetch this template after association, so it can be configured to the hardware.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Merge ath_tx_send_normal and ath_tx_send_ht_normal.
Move the paprd state initialization and sequence number assignment
to reduce the number of redundant checks.
This not only simplifies buffer allocation error handling, but also
removes a small inconsistency in the buffer HT flag.
This flag should only be set if the frame is also a QoS data frame.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
An earlier review suggested moving the code in a small
method that was only called once inline. This patch
accomplishes that.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Acked-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
TX underruns were noticed when RTS/CTS preceded aggregates.
This issue was noticed in ar93xx family of chipsets only.
The workaround involves padding the RTS or CTS length up
to the min packet length of 256 bytes required by the
hardware by adding delimiters to the fist descriptor of
the aggregate.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There is a roundng error in delimiter padding computation
which causes severe throughput drop with some of AR9003.
signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Cc:stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Also round off interpolated values this would improve power
accuracy by 0.5dB in some cases.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It is done for 5Ghz by adding three temperature slopes.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Attenuation from eeprom is configured into attenuator control
register.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Improper configuration of 0x16288 and 0x16290 would affect transmission.
Cc:stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We are currently using the default eeprom default and it doesn't
work properly for all ar9003 family chipsets. So add eeprom
templates for different versisons and select the eeprom table
based on the template version programmed in the eeprom.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
