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Re: [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: fix mesh fail_avg check

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On Tue, 2017-02-14 at 12:27 -0800, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
> Mesh failure average never be more than 100. Only in case of
> fixed path, average will be more than threshold limit (95%).
> With recent EWMA changes it may go upto 99 as it is scaled to
> 100. It make sense to return maximum metric when average is
> greater than threshold limit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c b/net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c
> index d07ee3ca07ee..02c30a21eb66 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c
> @@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ static u32 airtime_link_metric_get(struct
> ieee80211_local *local,
>  	if (rate) {
>  		err = 0;
>  	} else {
> -		if (fail_avg >= 100)
> +		if (fail_avg >= 95)
>  			return MAX_METRIC;

Why is this >= and the other place is >?

Also, I think it'd be good to introduce a #define for this value now,
perhaps something like "LINK_FAIL_THRESH".

johannes



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