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Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] mac80211: fix mesh airtime link metric estimating

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On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 15:31 -0800, Thomas Pedersen wrote:
> Airtime link metric estimation was broken in HT mesh, use
> cfg80211_calculate_bitrate to get the right rate value.
> 
> Also factor out tx rate copying from sta_set_sinfo().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> 
> ---
> v2:
> factor out rate copying (Johannes)
> 
> v3:
> just factor out tx rate copying (Johannes)
> 
> v4:
> pass by reference and add "_tx" (Johannes)
> 
>  net/mac80211/cfg.c       |   23 +++++++++++++++--------
>  net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c |    6 ++++--
>  net/mac80211/sta_info.h  |    3 +++
>  3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
> index 6a77d4c..f6aacd8 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
> @@ -336,6 +336,20 @@ static void rate_idx_to_bitrate(struct rate_info *rate, struct sta_info *sta, in
>  		rate->mcs = idx;
>  }
>  
> +void sta_set_rate_info_tx(struct sta_info *sta,
> +			  const struct ieee80211_tx_rate *rate,
> +			  struct rate_info *rinfo)
> +{
> +	rinfo->flags = 0;
> +	if (rate->flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_MCS)
> +		rinfo->flags |= RATE_INFO_FLAGS_MCS;
> +	if (rate->flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_40_MHZ_WIDTH)
> +		rinfo->flags |= RATE_INFO_FLAGS_40_MHZ_WIDTH;
> +	if (rate->flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_SHORT_GI)
> +		rinfo->flags |= RATE_INFO_FLAGS_SHORT_GI;
> +	rate_idx_to_bitrate(rinfo, sta, rate->idx);
> +}
> +
>  static void sta_set_sinfo(struct sta_info *sta, struct station_info *sinfo)
>  {
>  	struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = sta->sdata;
> @@ -378,14 +392,7 @@ static void sta_set_sinfo(struct sta_info *sta, struct station_info *sinfo)
>  		sinfo->signal_avg = (s8) -ewma_read(&sta->avg_signal);
>  	}
>  
> -	sinfo->txrate.flags = 0;
> -	if (sta->last_tx_rate.flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_MCS)
> -		sinfo->txrate.flags |= RATE_INFO_FLAGS_MCS;
> -	if (sta->last_tx_rate.flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_40_MHZ_WIDTH)
> -		sinfo->txrate.flags |= RATE_INFO_FLAGS_40_MHZ_WIDTH;
> -	if (sta->last_tx_rate.flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_SHORT_GI)
> -		sinfo->txrate.flags |= RATE_INFO_FLAGS_SHORT_GI;
> -	rate_idx_to_bitrate(&sinfo->txrate, sta, sta->last_tx_rate.idx);
> +	sta_set_rate_info_tx(sta, &sta->last_tx_rate, &sinfo->txrate);
>  
>  	sinfo->rxrate.flags = 0;
>  	if (sta->last_rx_rate_flag & RX_FLAG_HT)
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c b/net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c
> index 31bc762..13a4cb8 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c
> @@ -323,6 +323,7 @@ static u32 airtime_link_metric_get(struct ieee80211_local *local,
>  				   struct sta_info *sta)
>  {
>  	struct ieee80211_supported_band *sband;
> +	struct rate_info rinfo;
>  	/* This should be adjusted for each device */
>  	int device_constant = 1 << ARITH_SHIFT;
>  	int test_frame_len = TEST_FRAME_LEN << ARITH_SHIFT;
> @@ -336,7 +337,9 @@ static u32 airtime_link_metric_get(struct ieee80211_local *local,
>  	if (sta->fail_avg >= 100)
>  		return MAX_METRIC;
>  
> -	if (sta->last_tx_rate.flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_MCS)
> +	sta_set_rate_info_tx(sta, &sta->last_tx_rate, &rinfo);
> +	rate = cfg80211_calculate_bitrate(&rinfo);
> +	if (WARN_ON(!rate))
>  		return MAX_METRIC;
>  
>  	err = (sta->fail_avg << ARITH_SHIFT) / 100;
> @@ -344,7 +347,6 @@ static u32 airtime_link_metric_get(struct ieee80211_local *local,
>  	/* bitrate is in units of 100 Kbps, while we need rate in units of
>  	 * 1Mbps. This will be corrected on tx_time computation.
>  	 */
> -	rate = sband->bitrates[sta->last_tx_rate.idx].bitrate;
>  	tx_time = (device_constant + 10 * test_frame_len / rate);
>  	estimated_retx = ((1 << (2 * ARITH_SHIFT)) / (s_unit - err));
>  	result = (tx_time * estimated_retx) >> (2 * ARITH_SHIFT) ;
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.h b/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
> index 23a97c9..92715c6 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
> +++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
> @@ -528,6 +528,9 @@ void sta_info_init(struct ieee80211_local *local);
>  void sta_info_stop(struct ieee80211_local *local);
>  int sta_info_flush(struct ieee80211_local *local,
>  		   struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata);
> +void sta_set_rate_info_tx(struct sta_info *sta,
> +			  const struct ieee80211_tx_rate *rate,
> +			  struct rate_info *rinfo);
>  void ieee80211_sta_expire(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
>  			  unsigned long exp_time);
>  


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