+ Johannes - netdevs On 1/14/2021 5:36 PM, 'Alvin Šipraga' via BRCM80211-DEV-LIST,PDL wrote:
Add support for CQM RSSI measurement reporting and advertise the NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_CQM_RSSI_LIST feature. This enables a userspace supplicant such as iwd to be notified of changes in the RSSI for roaming and signal monitoring purposes.
The more I am looking into this API the less I understand it or at least it raises a couple of questions. Looking into nl80211_set_cqm_rssi() [1] two behaviors are supported: 1) driver is provisioned with a threshold and hysteresis, or 2) driver is provisioned with high and low threshold.
The second behavior is used when the driver advertises NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_CQM_RSSI_LIST *and* user-space provides more than one RSSI threshold. In both cases the same driver callback is being used so I wonder what is expected from the driver. Seems to me the driver would need to be able to distinguish between the two behavioral scenarios. As there is no obvious way I assume the driver should behave the same for both cases, but again it is unclear to me what that expected/required behavior is.
With behavior 2) some processing is done in cfg80211 itself by cfg80211_cqm_rssi_update() which is called from nl80211_set_cqm_rssi() upon NL80211_CMD_SET_CQM and cfg80211_cqm_rssi_notify() called by driver. If I look at that it matches pretty close what our firmware is doing. The difference is that our firmware avoids RSSI oscillation with a time constraint between RSSI events whereas cfg80211 uses the hysteresis.
So before moving forward, I hope Johannes can chime in and clarify things. Added the commit message introducing the extended feature below. It mentions backward compatibility, but it only considers the extended feature setting when user-space provides more than one threshold. However, when the drivers set the extended feature is expects (low, high) and (threshold, hysteresis) if not. So it seems the extended feature should have precedence over the number of thresholds provided by user-space.
Regards, Arend[1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.10.7/source/net/wireless/nl80211.c#L11479
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commit 4a4b8169501b18c3450ac735a7e277b24886a651
Author: Andrew Zaborowski <andrew.zaborowski@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Feb 10 10:02:31 2017 +0100
cfg80211: Accept multiple RSSI thresholds for CQM
Change the SET CQM command's RSSI threshold attribute to accept any
number of thresholds as a sorted array. The API should be backwards
compatible so that if one s32 threshold value is passed, the old
mechanism is enabled. The netlink event generated is the same in both
cases.
cfg80211 handles an arbitrary number of RSSI thresholds but drivers
have
to provide a method (set_cqm_rssi_range_config) that configures a range
set by a high and a low value. Drivers have to call back when the RSSI
goes out of that range and there's no additional event for each
time the
range is reconfigured as there was with the current one-threshold API.
This method doesn't have a hysteresis parameter because there's no
benefit to the cfg80211 code from having the hysteresis be handled by
hardware/driver in terms of the number of wakeups. At the same time
it would likely be less consistent between drivers if offloaded or
done in the drivers.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Zaborowski <andrew.zaborowski@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
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