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<title>mac80211: Add ieee80211_hw pointer to get_expected_throughput</title>
<updated>2016-08-05T12:23:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maxim Altshul</name>
<email>maxim.altshul@ti.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-04T12:43:04+00:00</published>
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The variable is added to allow the driver an easy access to
it's own hw-&gt;priv when the op is invoked.

This fixes a crash in wlcore because it was relying on a
station pointer that wasn't initialized yet. It's the wrong
way to fix the crash, but it solves the problem for now and
it does make sense to have the hw pointer here.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Altshul &lt;maxim.altshul@ti.com&gt;
[rewrite commit message, fix indentation]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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The variable is added to allow the driver an easy access to
it's own hw-&gt;priv when the op is invoked.

This fixes a crash in wlcore because it was relying on a
station pointer that wasn't initialized yet. It's the wrong
way to fix the crash, but it solves the problem for now and
it does make sense to have the hw pointer here.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Altshul &lt;maxim.altshul@ti.com&gt;
[rewrite commit message, fix indentation]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: Add support for beacon report radio measurement</title>
<updated>2016-07-06T12:53:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Avraham Stern</name>
<email>avraham.stern@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-05T12:23:12+00:00</published>
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Add the following to support beacon report radio measurement
with the measurement mode field set to passive or active:
1. Propagate the required scan duration to the device
2. Report the scan start time (in terms of TSF)
3. Report each BSS's detection time (also in terms of TSF)

TSF times refer to the BSS that the interface that requested the
scan is connected to.

Signed-off-by: Assaf Krauss &lt;assaf.krauss@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Avraham Stern &lt;avraham.stern@intel.com&gt;
[changed ath9k/10k, at76c59x-usb, iwlegacy, wl1251 and wlcore to match
the new API]
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho &lt;luciano.coelho@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Add the following to support beacon report radio measurement
with the measurement mode field set to passive or active:
1. Propagate the required scan duration to the device
2. Report the scan start time (in terms of TSF)
3. Report each BSS's detection time (also in terms of TSF)

TSF times refer to the BSS that the interface that requested the
scan is connected to.

Signed-off-by: Assaf Krauss &lt;assaf.krauss@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Avraham Stern &lt;avraham.stern@intel.com&gt;
[changed ath9k/10k, at76c59x-usb, iwlegacy, wl1251 and wlcore to match
the new API]
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho &lt;luciano.coelho@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: implement codel on fair queuing flows</title>
<updated>2016-06-09T09:45:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Kazior</name>
<email>michal.kazior@tieto.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-19T08:37:51+00:00</published>
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There is no other limit other than a global
packet count limit when using software queuing.
This means a single flow queue can grow insanely
long. This is particularly bad for TCP congestion
algorithms which requires a little more
sophisticated frame dropping scheme than a mere
headdrop on limit overflow.

Hence apply (a slighly modified, to fit the knobs)
CoDel5 on flow queues. This improves TCP
convergence and stability when combined with
wireless driver which keeps its own tx queue/fifo
at a minimum fill level for given link conditions.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior &lt;michal.kazior@tieto.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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There is no other limit other than a global
packet count limit when using software queuing.
This means a single flow queue can grow insanely
long. This is particularly bad for TCP congestion
algorithms which requires a little more
sophisticated frame dropping scheme than a mere
headdrop on limit overflow.

Hence apply (a slighly modified, to fit the knobs)
CoDel5 on flow queues. This improves TCP
convergence and stability when combined with
wireless driver which keeps its own tx queue/fifo
at a minimum fill level for given link conditions.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior &lt;michal.kazior@tieto.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: skip netdev queue control with software queuing</title>
<updated>2016-06-09T09:31:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Kazior</name>
<email>michal.kazior@tieto.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-19T08:37:48+00:00</published>
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Qdiscs are designed with no regard to 802.11
aggregation requirements and hand out
packet-by-packet with no guarantee they are
destined to the same tid. This does more bad than
good no matter how fairly a given qdisc may behave
on an ethernet interface.

Software queuing used per-AC netdev subqueue
congestion control whenever a global AC limit was
hit. This meant in practice a single station or
tid queue could starve others rather easily. This
could resonate with qdiscs in a bad way or could
just end up with poor aggregation performance.
Increasing the AC limit would increase induced
latency which is also bad.

Disabling qdiscs by default and performing
taildrop instead of netdev subqueue congestion
control on the other hand makes it possible for
tid queues to fill up "in the meantime" while
preventing stations starving each other.

This increases aggregation opportunities and
should allow software queuing based drivers
achieve better performance by utilizing airtime
more efficiently with big aggregates.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior &lt;michal.kazior@tieto.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Qdiscs are designed with no regard to 802.11
aggregation requirements and hand out
packet-by-packet with no guarantee they are
destined to the same tid. This does more bad than
good no matter how fairly a given qdisc may behave
on an ethernet interface.

Software queuing used per-AC netdev subqueue
congestion control whenever a global AC limit was
hit. This meant in practice a single station or
tid queue could starve others rather easily. This
could resonate with qdiscs in a bad way or could
just end up with poor aggregation performance.
Increasing the AC limit would increase induced
latency which is also bad.

Disabling qdiscs by default and performing
taildrop instead of netdev subqueue congestion
control on the other hand makes it possible for
tid queues to fill up "in the meantime" while
preventing stations starving each other.

This increases aggregation opportunities and
should allow software queuing based drivers
achieve better performance by utilizing airtime
more efficiently with big aggregates.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior &lt;michal.kazior@tieto.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: allow software PS-Poll/U-APSD with AP_LINK_PS</title>
<updated>2016-05-12T09:16:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-03T13:58:00+00:00</published>
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When using RSS, frames might not be processed in the correct order,
and thus AP_LINK_PS must be used; most likely with firmware keeping
track of the powersave state, this is the case in iwlwifi now.

In this case, the driver can use ieee80211_sta_ps_transition() to
still have mac80211 manage powersave buffering. However, for U-APSD
and PS-Poll this isn't sufficient. If the device can't manage that
entirely on its own, mac80211's code should be used.

To allow this, export two functions: ieee80211_sta_uapsd_trigger()
and ieee80211_sta_pspoll().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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When using RSS, frames might not be processed in the correct order,
and thus AP_LINK_PS must be used; most likely with firmware keeping
track of the powersave state, this is the case in iwlwifi now.

In this case, the driver can use ieee80211_sta_ps_transition() to
still have mac80211 manage powersave buffering. However, for U-APSD
and PS-Poll this isn't sufficient. If the device can't manage that
entirely on its own, mac80211's code should be used.

To allow this, export two functions: ieee80211_sta_uapsd_trigger()
and ieee80211_sta_pspoll().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: allow same PN for AMSDU sub-frames</title>
<updated>2016-05-12T09:14:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sara Sharon</name>
<email>sara.sharon@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-03T12:59:44+00:00</published>
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Some hardware (iwlwifi an example) de-aggregate AMSDUs and copy the IV
as is to the generated MPDUs, so the same PN appears in multiple
packets without being a replay attack.  Allow driver to explicitly
indicate that a frame is allowed to have the same PN as the previous
frame.

Signed-off-by: Sara Sharon &lt;sara.sharon@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho &lt;luciano.coelho@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Some hardware (iwlwifi an example) de-aggregate AMSDUs and copy the IV
as is to the generated MPDUs, so the same PN appears in multiple
packets without being a replay attack.  Allow driver to explicitly
indicate that a frame is allowed to have the same PN as the previous
frame.

Signed-off-by: Sara Sharon &lt;sara.sharon@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho &lt;luciano.coelho@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cfg80211: remove enum ieee80211_band</title>
<updated>2016-04-12T13:56:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-12T13:56:15+00:00</published>
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This enum is already perfectly aliased to enum nl80211_band, and
the only reason for it is that we get IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS out of
it. There's no really good reason to not declare the number of
bands in nl80211 though, so do that and remove the cfg80211 one.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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This enum is already perfectly aliased to enum nl80211_band, and
the only reason for it is that we get IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS out of
it. There's no really good reason to not declare the number of
bands in nl80211 though, so do that and remove the cfg80211 one.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2016-04-09T21:41:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-09T21:41:41+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: add A-MSDU tx support</title>
<updated>2016-04-06T11:18:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Felix Fietkau</name>
<email>nbd@openwrt.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-03T21:59:00+00:00</published>
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Requires software tx queueing and fast-xmit support. For good
performance, drivers need frag_list support as well. This avoids the
need for copying data of aggregated frames. Running without it is only
supported for debugging purposes.

To avoid performance and packet size issues, the rate control module or
driver needs to limit the maximum A-MSDU size by setting
max_rc_amsdu_len in struct ieee80211_sta.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau &lt;nbd@openwrt.org&gt;
[fix locking issue]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Requires software tx queueing and fast-xmit support. For good
performance, drivers need frag_list support as well. This avoids the
need for copying data of aggregated frames. Running without it is only
supported for debugging purposes.

To avoid performance and packet size issues, the rate control module or
driver needs to limit the maximum A-MSDU size by setting
max_rc_amsdu_len in struct ieee80211_sta.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau &lt;nbd@openwrt.org&gt;
[fix locking issue]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: enable collecting station statistics per-CPU</title>
<updated>2016-04-06T11:18:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-31T17:02:11+00:00</published>
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If the driver advertises the new HW flag USE_RSS, make the
station statistics on the fast-rx path per-CPU. This will
enable calling the RX in parallel, only hitting locking or
shared cachelines when the fast-RX path isn't available.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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If the driver advertises the new HW flag USE_RSS, make the
station statistics on the fast-rx path per-CPU. This will
enable calling the RX in parallel, only hitting locking or
shared cachelines when the fast-RX path isn't available.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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