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Re: [PATCH 3/3] mac80211: clear failure average upon mesh path deactivation

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On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Rajkumar Manoharan
<rmanohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2017-01-31 09:51, Thomas Pedersen wrote:
>>
>> Hi Rajkumar,
>>
>> Thanks this looks good, but..
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 4:01 PM, Rajkumar Manoharan
>> <rmanohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Mesh moving average should be cleared, whenever mesh paths
>>> to the given station are deactivated due to bad link. This will
>>> give enough room to analysis more tx status than retaining the
>>> current average.
>>>
> [...]
>>>
>>>         ret = rhashtable_walk_init(&tbl->rhead, &iter, GFP_ATOMIC);
>>>         if (ret)
>>> @@ -535,8 +536,11 @@ void mesh_plink_broken(struct sta_info *sta)
>>>                                 sdata->u.mesh.mshcfg.element_ttl,
>>>                                 mpath->dst, mpath->sn,
>>>                                 WLAN_REASON_MESH_PATH_DEST_UNREACHABLE,
>>> bcast);
>>> +                       paths_deactivated = true;
>>>                 }
>>>         }
>>> +       if (paths_deactivated)
>>> +               sta->mesh->fail_avg = 0;
>>
>>
>> .. why this indirection? Just reset mesh->fail_avg unconditionally in
>> this function?
>>
> Hmm... As fixed paths are not affected, resetting fail_avg for fixed path
> may give
> wrong metric. no?

I don't think setting fail_avg = 0 will affect existing fixed mpath
code. Anyway metrics should not
affect whether a fixed mpath is chosen.

-- 
thomas



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