This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mac80211: minstrel: remove deferred sampling code
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mac80211-minstrel-remove-deferred-sampling-code.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 4fe40b8e1566dad04c87fbf299049a1d0d4bd58d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 19:33:58 +0100
Subject: mac80211: minstrel: remove deferred sampling code
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx>
commit 4fe40b8e1566dad04c87fbf299049a1d0d4bd58d upstream.
Deferring sampling attempts to the second stage has some bad interactions
with drivers that process the rate table in hardware and use the probe flag
to indicate probing packets (e.g. most mt76 drivers). On affected drivers
it can lead to probing not working at all.
If the link conditions turn worse, it might not be such a good idea to
do a lot of sampling for lower rates in this case.
Fix this by simply skipping the sample attempt instead of deferring it,
but keep the checks that would allow it to be sampled if it was skipped
too often, but only if it has less than 95% success probability.
Also ensure that IEEE80211_TX_CTL_RATE_CTRL_PROBE is set for all probing
packets.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: cccf129f820e ("mac80211: add the 'minstrel' rate control algorithm")
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201111183359.43528-2-nbd@xxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c | 25 ++++---------------------
net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.h | 1 -
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
--- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c
@@ -287,12 +287,6 @@ minstrel_tx_status(void *priv, struct ie
mi->r[ndx].stats.success += success;
}
- if ((info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_RATE_CTRL_PROBE) && (i >= 0))
- mi->sample_packets++;
-
- if (mi->sample_deferred > 0)
- mi->sample_deferred--;
-
if (time_after(jiffies, mi->last_stats_update +
(mp->update_interval * HZ) / 1000))
minstrel_update_stats(mp, mi);
@@ -366,7 +360,7 @@ minstrel_get_rate(void *priv, struct iee
#endif
delta = (mi->total_packets * sampling_ratio / 100) -
- (mi->sample_packets + mi->sample_deferred / 2);
+ mi->sample_packets;
/* delta < 0: no sampling required */
prev_sample = mi->prev_sample;
@@ -375,7 +369,6 @@ minstrel_get_rate(void *priv, struct iee
return;
if (mi->total_packets >= 10000) {
- mi->sample_deferred = 0;
mi->sample_packets = 0;
mi->total_packets = 0;
} else if (delta > mi->n_rates * 2) {
@@ -400,19 +393,8 @@ minstrel_get_rate(void *priv, struct iee
* rate sampling method should be used.
* Respect such rates that are not sampled for 20 interations.
*/
- if (mrr_capable &&
- msr->perfect_tx_time > mr->perfect_tx_time &&
- msr->stats.sample_skipped < 20) {
- /* Only use IEEE80211_TX_CTL_RATE_CTRL_PROBE to mark
- * packets that have the sampling rate deferred to the
- * second MRR stage. Increase the sample counter only
- * if the deferred sample rate was actually used.
- * Use the sample_deferred counter to make sure that
- * the sampling is not done in large bursts */
- info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_CTL_RATE_CTRL_PROBE;
- rate++;
- mi->sample_deferred++;
- } else {
+ if (msr->perfect_tx_time < mr->perfect_tx_time ||
+ msr->stats.sample_skipped >= 20) {
if (!msr->sample_limit)
return;
@@ -432,6 +414,7 @@ minstrel_get_rate(void *priv, struct iee
rate->idx = mi->r[ndx].rix;
rate->count = minstrel_get_retry_count(&mi->r[ndx], info);
+ info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_CTL_RATE_CTRL_PROBE;
}
--- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.h
@@ -105,7 +105,6 @@ struct minstrel_sta_info {
u8 max_prob_rate;
unsigned int total_packets;
unsigned int sample_packets;
- int sample_deferred;
unsigned int sample_row;
unsigned int sample_column;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nbd@xxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/mac80211-minstrel-fix-tx-status-processing-corner-case.patch
queue-4.4/mac80211-minstrel-remove-deferred-sampling-code.patch
