On Wednesday 01 August 2007 22:56:07 Larry Finger wrote:
> Michael,
>
> I think I took care of your comments in the previous version.
>
> Larry
> ---
>
> In bcm43xx-mac80211, the mechanism for decreasing the transmit rate cannot
> be triggered. This may be shown by walking away from the AP with a laptop.
> At some distance, communications will be lost and never recovered because
> the rate decreasing mechanism of rc80211_simple needs to see excessive_retries
> set in the ieee80211_tx_status struct. With this patch, the transmit rate
> will decrease until communications restart.
>
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Index: wireless-dev/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211/bcm43xx_dma.c
> ===================================================================
> --- wireless-dev.orig/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211/bcm43xx_dma.c
> +++ wireless-dev/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211/bcm43xx_dma.c
> @@ -1311,6 +1311,16 @@ void bcm43xx_dma_handle_txstatus(struct
> */
> if (status->acked)
> meta->txstat.flags |= IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_ACK;
> + else
> + if (dev->short_preamble) {
Short preamble is something different.
The thing I was talking about is
mac_ctl |= BCM43xx_TX4_MAC_LONGFRAME;
which we do in xmit.c:338.
We currently do it for frames sent with CTS or RTS.
Though, I have no idea how we can easily track the information for each
packet if it was sent with LONGFRAME bit or without.
It needs to be a per-frame-attribute.
I think the txstatus doesn't tell us (but I'm not sure).
> + if (status->frame_count >=
> + dev->short_retry_limit)
> + meta->txstat.excessive_retries = 1;
> + } else {
> + if (status->frame_count >=
> + dev->long_retry_limit)
> + meta->txstat.excessive_retries = 1;
> + }
> meta->txstat.retry_count = status->frame_count - 1;
> ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe(dev->wl->hw, meta->skb, &(meta->txstat));
> /* skb is freed by ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe() */
> Index: wireless-dev/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211/bcm43xx.h
> ===================================================================
> --- wireless-dev.orig/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211/bcm43xx.h
> +++ wireless-dev/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211/bcm43xx.h
> @@ -707,6 +707,8 @@ struct bcm43xx_wldev {
> bool short_preamble; /* TRUE, if short preamble is enabled. */
> bool short_slot; /* TRUE, if short slot timing is enabled. */
> bool radio_hw_enable; /* saved state of radio hardware enabled state */
> + u8 short_retry_limit;
> + u8 long_retry_limit;
>
> /* PHY/Radio device. */
> struct bcm43xx_phy phy;
> Index: wireless-dev/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211/bcm43xx_main.c
> ===================================================================
> --- wireless-dev.orig/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211/bcm43xx_main.c
> +++ wireless-dev/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211/bcm43xx_main.c
> @@ -3333,10 +3333,12 @@ static int bcm43xx_wireless_core_init(st
> tmp = limit_value(modparam_short_retry, 0, 0xF);
> bcm43xx_shm_write16(dev, BCM43xx_SHM_SCRATCH,
> BCM43xx_SHM_SC_SRLIMIT, tmp);
> + dev->short_retry_limit = tmp;
> tmp = limit_value(modparam_long_retry, 0, 0xF);
> bcm43xx_shm_write16(dev, BCM43xx_SHM_SCRATCH,
> BCM43xx_SHM_SC_LRLIMIT, tmp);
>
> + dev->long_retry_limit = tmp;
> bcm43xx_shm_write16(dev, BCM43xx_SHM_SHARED,
> BCM43xx_SHM_SH_SFFBLIM, 3);
> bcm43xx_shm_write16(dev, BCM43xx_SHM_SHARED,
>
>
--
Greetings Michael.
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