These parameters may be changed via ifconfig(8); by default,
mgt / mcast rates are lowest possible and ucast rate is not set
(matches previous configuration).
While here, store some variables locally for better readability.
This removes the direct WME info access in the ieee80211com struct and instead
provides a method of fetching the data. Right now it's a no-op but eventually
it'll turn into a per-VAP method for drivers that support it (eg iwn, iwm,
upcoming ath10k work) as things like p2p support require this kind of behaviour.
Tested:
* ath(4), STA and AP mode
TODO:
* yes, this is slightly stack size-y, but it is an important first step
to get drivers migrated over to a sensible WME API. A lot of per-phy things
need to be converted to per-VAP before P2P, 11ac firmware, etc stuff shows up.
directly from the node.
- Use ni_txparms directly instead of calculating them manually every time
- Move M_EAPOL flag check upper; otherwise it may be skipped due to
'ucastrate' / 'mcastrate' check
- Use 'mgtrate' for control frames too (see ifconfig(8), mgtrate parameter)
- Add few more M_EAPOL checks where it was missing (zyd(4), ural(4),
urtw(4))
- Few unrelated cleanups
Tested with:
- Intel 6205 (iwn(4)), STA mode;
- WUSB54GC (rum(4)), HOSTAP mode + RTL8188EU (rtwn(4)), STA mode.
Reviewed by: adrian
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9811
to ieee80211_add_rx_params() + drop last (ieee80211_rx_stats) parameter
Note: there is an additional check for ieee80211_get_rx_params()
return value (which does not exist in the original diff).
Reviewed by: adrian
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8207
There are a variety of more interesting RX statistics that we should
keep track of but we don't. This is a starting point for adding more
information.
Specifically:
* now the RX rate information and some of the packet status is
passed up;
* The 32 bit or 64 bit TSF is passed up;
* the PHY mode is passed up;
* the "I'm decap'ed AMSDU!" state is passed up;
* number of RX chains is bumped to 4.
This is all mostly a placeholder for getting the data into the RX status
before we pass it up to net80211 - unfortunately we don't yet enforce
that drivers provide it, nor do we pass the provided info back up the
stack so anyone can use the data.
We're going to need to use some of this data moving forward.
Notably, now that some hardware can do AMSDU decap for us (the intel iwm
driver can do it when we flip it on; the ath10k port I'm doing does
it for us) then we need to pass it up through the stack so the duplicate
RX sequence numbers and crypto/IV details don't cause the packet to
be dropped and/or counted against a replay counter.
It's also the beginning of being able to do more interesting node
accounting in net80211. Specifically, once drivers start populating
per-packet rate information, AMPDU information, timestamps, etc,
we can start providing histograms of rate-versus-RSSI, account
for receive time spent per node and other such interesting things.
(Note: I'm also hoping to include ranging and RTT information for
future chipset support; and it's likely going to include it in
this kind of fashion.)
Replace various void * / int argument combinations with common structures:
- ieee80211_ratectl_tx_status for *_tx_complete();
- ieee80211_ratectl_tx_stats for *_tx_update();
While here, improve amrr_tx_update() for a bit:
1. In case, if receiver is not known (typical for Ralink USB drivers),
refresh Tx rate for all nodes on the interface.
2. There was a misuse:
- otus(4) sends non-decreasing counters (as originally intended);
- but ural(4), rum(4) and run(4) are using 'read & clear' registers
to obtain statistics for some period of time (and those 'last period'
values are used as arguments for tx_update()). If arguments are not big
enough, they are just discarded after the next call.
Fix: move counting into *_tx_update()
(now otus(4) will zero out all node counters after every tx_update() call)
Tested with:
- Intel 3945BG (wpi(4)), STA mode.
- WUSB54GC (rum(4)), STA / HOSTAP mode.
- RTL8188EU (urtwn(4)), STA mode.
Reviewed by: adrian
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8037
* break out the operating mode and rx filter into new functions, rather
than them being hard-coded
* if we're in sniffer mode or not associated, set the BSS MAC to all zero,
rather than relying on a chip reset to do it for us
* add comments about .. how interestingly buggy the chip is.
Tested:
* AR9170 + AR9102, STA+monitor mode
Obtained from: linux carl9170 (general chip workings, constant definitions)
le*dec / le*enc functions.
Replace net80211 specific macros with system-wide bytestream
encoding/decoding functions:
- LE_READ_2 -> le16dec
- LE_READ_4 -> le32dec
- LE_WRITE_2 -> le16enc
- LE_WRITE_4 -> le32enc
+ drop ieee80211_input.h include, where it was included for these
operations only.
Reviewed by: adrian
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6030
- Add IEEE80211_GET_SLOTTIME(ic) macro.
- Use predefined macroses to set slot time.
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4044
Since r288350, ic_wme_task() is called via ieee80211_runtask(),
so, any additional deferring from the driver side is not needed.
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4072
* refactor out the rx filter and operating mode code into a separate
method.
* add some comments about what's left with setting the operating mode
based on what carl9170 does.
* comment out some init from otus_init_mac() - it's no longer needed as
it's always init'ed now.
* add debugging and a missing return around a failure to call m_get2() -
during monitor mode operation I found RXing of frames > 2k, which
fails allocation. I'm sure they're valid (it's configuring 11n RX and
receiving 11n frames even though the driver doesn't "do" 11n)
and may be A-MSDU; but allocations fail and we should handle that
gracefully.
Tested:
* UB82 reference NIC (AR9170 + AR9104 2x2 dual band NIC); STA and
monitor mode operation.
* Add a comment about the parameters I should support, stolen shamelessly
from iwn(4);
* Implement the rate bit for the raw transmit path;
* Print out the host-order versions of each of the transmit bits, so
I have a hope in heck of debugging why things are going wrong.
This still doesn't fix 5GHz in the office but that's likely due to a lot
of other configuration parameters being 2GHz-specific. That'll come next.
Tested:
* AR9170 + AR9103 (2/5GHz) 2x2, 5GHz association
* Use the correct malloc type for node allocation - M_80211_NODE - so
the default node free method in net80211 will work correctly.
* Fix otus_node_alloc() to suit FreeBSD's net80211.
* .. and actually call otus_node_alloc() so there's space for the
per-node tx statistics. Otherwise, well, it will be scribbling over
random memory.
Tested:
* AR9170, STA mode
The monitor mode stuff is from the openbsd driver, but it doesn't
100% work. It doesn't seem to get all frames for all BSSes.
However, it's enough to at start debugging things. That 0xffffffff
write is /I think/ the RX filter, but I am still not 100% sure about
it all.
Then, whilst here, use the lowest rate for EAPOL frames. This is just
generally a good thing to do.
This doesn't free the mbuf upon error; the driver ic_raw_xmit method is still
doing that.
Submitted by: <s3erios@gmail.com>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3774
Fast-frames:
* include opt_wlan.h ; tsk to not doing it earlier;
* add a tx pending tracking counter for seeing how deep
the hardware TX queue is;
* add the frame aging code from if_ath;
* add fast-frames capability to the driver setup.
Bugs:
* free the buffers (and node references) before
detaching net80211 state. This prevents a use-after-free in
the node free path where we've destroyed net80211 underneath it.
Atheros.
Thanks to OpenBSD for providing a driver based on the original
Atheros open source driver circa 2008. This uses the early, pre-carl9170
atheros provided firmware.
It only supports 11bg at the moment. I've not tested it with 11a
(and so the TX rate control logic may be slightly wrong!) so if
you do have the dual-band version of this hardware please do let me know.
Tested:
* AR9170, TP-Link WN821N 2GHz.
TODO:
* Hook this up to a non-module build.
