linux.git/net/mac80211/scan.c, branch v3.9

mac80211: add radar detection command/event

2013-02-15T08:41:04+00:00

Add command to trigger radar detection in the driver/FW.
Once radar detection is started it should continuously
monitor for radars as long as the channel active.
If radar is detected usermode notified with 'radar
detected' event.

Scanning and remain on channel functionality must be disabled
while doing radar detection/scanning, and vice versa.

Based on original patch by Victor Goldenshtein 

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: Add flushes before going off-channel

2013-02-11T21:52:21+00:00

We've got a couple of races when enabling powersave with an AP for
off-channel operation. The first is fairly simple. If we go off-channel
before the nullfunc frame to enable PS is transmitted then it may not be
received by the AP. Add a flush after enabling off-channel PS to prevent
this from happening.

The second race is a bit more subtle. If the driver supports QoS and has
frames queued when the nullfunc frame is queued, those frames may get
transmitted after the nullfunc frame. If PM is not set then the AP is
being told that we've exited PS before we go off-channel and may try to
deliver frames. To prevent this, add a flush after stopping the queues
but before passing the nullfunc frame to the driver.

Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: Fix tx queue handling during scans

2013-02-11T21:52:21+00:00

Scans currently work by stopping the netdev tx queues but leaving the
mac80211 queues active. This stops the flow of incoming packets while
still allowing mac80211 to transmit nullfunc and probe request frames to
facilitate scanning. However, the driver may try to wake the mac80211
queues while in this state, which will also wake the netdev queues.

To prevent this, add a new queue stop reason,
IEEE80211_QUEUE_STOP_REASON_OFFCHANNEL, to be used when stopping the tx
queues for off-channel operation. This prevents the netdev queues from
waking when a driver wakes the mac80211 queues.

This also stops all frames from being transmitted, even those meant to
be sent off-channel. Add a new tx control flag,
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_OFFCHAN_TX_OK, which allows frames to be transmitted
when the queues are stopped only for the off-channel stop reason. Update
all locations transmitting off-channel frames to use this flag.

Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: introduce beacon-only timing data

2013-02-11T17:45:00+00:00

In order to be able to predict the next DTIM TBTT
in the driver, add the ability to use timing data
from beacons only with the new hardware flag
IEEE80211_HW_TIMING_BEACON_ONLY and the BSS info
value sync_dtim_count which is only valid if the
timing data came from a beacon. The data can only
come from a beacon, and if no beacon was received
before association it is updated later together
with the DTIM count notification.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: pass wiphy to cfg80211_ref_bss/put_bss

2013-02-11T17:44:52+00:00

This prepares for using the spinlock instead of krefs
which is needed in the next patch to track the refs
of combined BSSes correctly.

Acked-by: Bing Zhao  [mwifiex]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: improve latency and throughput while software scanning

2013-01-31T15:45:05+00:00

Patch vastly improve latency while scanning. Slight throughput
improvements were observed as well. Is intended for improve performance
of voice and video applications, when scan is periodically requested by
user space (i.e. default NetworkManager behaviour).

Patch remove latency requirement based on PM_QOS_NETWORK_LATENCY,
this value is 2000 seconds by default (i.e. approximately 0.5 hour !?!).

Also remove listen interval requirement, which based on beaconing and
depending on BSS parameters. It can make we stay off-channel for a
second or more.

Instead try to offer the best latency that we could, i.e. be off-channel
no longer than PASSIVE channel scan time: 125 ms. That mean we will
scan two ACTIVE channels and go back to on-channel, and one PASSIVE
channel, and go back to on-channel.

Patch also decrease PASSIVE channel scan time to about 110 ms.

As drawback patch increase overall scan time. On my tests, when scanning
both 2GHz and 5GHz bands, scanning time increase from 5 seconds up to 10
seconds. Since that increase happen only when we are associated, I think
it can be acceptable. If eventually better scan time is needed for
situations when we lose signal and quickly need to decide to which AP
roam, additional scan flag or parameter can be introduced.

I tested patch by doing:

while true; do iw dev wlan0 scan; sleep 3; done > /dev/null

and

ping -i0.2 -c 1000 HOST

on remote and local machine, results are as below:

* Ping from local periodically scanning machine to AP:
Unpatched: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.928/24.946/182.135/36.873 ms
Patched:   rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.928/19.678/150.845/33.130 ms

* Ping from remote machine to periodically scanning machine:
Unpatched: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.637/120.683/709.139/164.337 ms
Patched:   rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.807/26.893/201.435/40.284 ms

Throughput measured by scp show following results.

* Upload to periodically scanning machine:
Unpatched: 3.9MB/s   03:15
Patched:   4.3MB/s   02:58

* Download from periodically scanning machine:
Unpatched: 5.5MB/s   02:17
Patched:   6.2MB/s   02:02

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: start auth/assoc timeout on frame status

2013-01-31T13:28:43+00:00

When sending authentication/association frames they
might take a bit of time to go out because we may
have to synchronise with the AP, in particular in
the case where it's really a P2P GO. In this case
the 200ms fixed timeout could potentially be too
short if the beacon interval is relatively large.

For drivers that report TX status we can do better.
Instead of starting the timeout directly, start it
only when the frame status arrives. Since then the
frame was out on the air, we can wait shorter (the
typical response time is supposed to be 30ms, wait
100ms.) Also, if the frame failed to be transmitted
try again right away instead of waiting.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: remove unused mesh data from bss

2013-01-31T13:07:14+00:00

These pointers/values are never used, remove them.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: remove last_probe_resp from bss

2013-01-31T13:06:32+00:00

We track this, but never use it, so we can
just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless

2013-01-28T18:54:03+00:00

Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/tx.c