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Include some preliminary TX HT rate scenario setup code. The AR5416 and later TX descriptors have new fields for supporting 11n bits (eg 20/40mhz mode, short/long GI) and enabling/disabling RTS/CTS protection per rate. These functions will be responsible for initialising the TX descriptors for the AR5416 and later chips for both HT and legacy frames. Beacon frames will remain using the non-11n TX descriptor setup for now; Linux ath9k does much the same. Note that these functions aren't yet used anywhere; a few more framework changes are needed before all of the right rate information is available for TX.
2011-02-01 08:03:01 +00:00
/*-
* Copyright (c) 2011 Adrian Chadd, Xenion Pty Ltd.
* All rights reserved.
*
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* THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
*/
#include <sys/cdefs.h>
__FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
#include "opt_inet.h"
#include "opt_ath.h"
#include "opt_wlan.h"
#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/systm.h>
#include <sys/sysctl.h>
#include <sys/mbuf.h>
#include <sys/malloc.h>
#include <sys/lock.h>
#include <sys/mutex.h>
#include <sys/kernel.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/sockio.h>
#include <sys/errno.h>
#include <sys/callout.h>
#include <sys/bus.h>
#include <sys/endian.h>
#include <sys/kthread.h>
#include <sys/taskqueue.h>
#include <sys/priv.h>
#include <machine/bus.h>
#include <net/if.h>
#include <net/if_dl.h>
#include <net/if_media.h>
#include <net/if_types.h>
#include <net/if_arp.h>
#include <net/ethernet.h>
#include <net/if_llc.h>
#include <net80211/ieee80211_var.h>
#include <net80211/ieee80211_regdomain.h>
#ifdef IEEE80211_SUPPORT_SUPERG
#include <net80211/ieee80211_superg.h>
#endif
#ifdef IEEE80211_SUPPORT_TDMA
#include <net80211/ieee80211_tdma.h>
#endif
#include <net/bpf.h>
#ifdef INET
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <netinet/if_ether.h>
#endif
#include <dev/ath/if_athvar.h>
#include <dev/ath/ath_hal/ah_devid.h> /* XXX for softled */
#include <dev/ath/ath_hal/ah_diagcodes.h>
#ifdef ATH_TX99_DIAG
#include <dev/ath/ath_tx99/ath_tx99.h>
#endif
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
#include <dev/ath/if_ath_tx.h> /* XXX for some support functions */
Include some preliminary TX HT rate scenario setup code. The AR5416 and later TX descriptors have new fields for supporting 11n bits (eg 20/40mhz mode, short/long GI) and enabling/disabling RTS/CTS protection per rate. These functions will be responsible for initialising the TX descriptors for the AR5416 and later chips for both HT and legacy frames. Beacon frames will remain using the non-11n TX descriptor setup for now; Linux ath9k does much the same. Note that these functions aren't yet used anywhere; a few more framework changes are needed before all of the right rate information is available for TX.
2011-02-01 08:03:01 +00:00
#include <dev/ath/if_ath_tx_ht.h>
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
#include <dev/ath/if_athrate.h>
#include <dev/ath/if_ath_debug.h>
/*
* XXX net80211?
*/
#define IEEE80211_AMPDU_SUBFRAME_DEFAULT 32
A few nitpicks: * Use ATH_RC_NUM instead of '4' when iterating over the ratecontrol series array. * A few style(9) fixes, hopefully no regressions here. * Add some comments that better describe what's going on.
2012-06-16 21:37:15 +00:00
#define ATH_AGGR_DELIM_SZ 4 /* delimiter size */
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
#define ATH_AGGR_MINPLEN 256 /* in bytes, minimum packet length */
A few nitpicks: * Use ATH_RC_NUM instead of '4' when iterating over the ratecontrol series array. * A few style(9) fixes, hopefully no regressions here. * Add some comments that better describe what's going on.
2012-06-16 21:37:15 +00:00
/* number of delimiters for encryption padding */
#define ATH_AGGR_ENCRYPTDELIM 10
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
/*
* returns delimiter padding required given the packet length
*/
#define ATH_AGGR_GET_NDELIM(_len) \
(((((_len) + ATH_AGGR_DELIM_SZ) < ATH_AGGR_MINPLEN) ? \
(ATH_AGGR_MINPLEN - (_len) - ATH_AGGR_DELIM_SZ) : 0) >> 2)
#define PADBYTES(_len) ((4 - ((_len) % 4)) % 4)
int ath_max_4ms_framelen[4][32] = {
[MCS_HT20] = {
3212, 6432, 9648, 12864, 19300, 25736, 28952, 32172,
6424, 12852, 19280, 25708, 38568, 51424, 57852, 64280,
9628, 19260, 28896, 38528, 57792, 65532, 65532, 65532,
12828, 25656, 38488, 51320, 65532, 65532, 65532, 65532,
},
[MCS_HT20_SGI] = {
3572, 7144, 10720, 14296, 21444, 28596, 32172, 35744,
7140, 14284, 21428, 28568, 42856, 57144, 64288, 65532,
10700, 21408, 32112, 42816, 64228, 65532, 65532, 65532,
14256, 28516, 42780, 57040, 65532, 65532, 65532, 65532,
},
[MCS_HT40] = {
6680, 13360, 20044, 26724, 40092, 53456, 60140, 65532,
13348, 26700, 40052, 53400, 65532, 65532, 65532, 65532,
20004, 40008, 60016, 65532, 65532, 65532, 65532, 65532,
26644, 53292, 65532, 65532, 65532, 65532, 65532, 65532,
},
[MCS_HT40_SGI] = {
7420, 14844, 22272, 29696, 44544, 59396, 65532, 65532,
14832, 29668, 44504, 59340, 65532, 65532, 65532, 65532,
22232, 44464, 65532, 65532, 65532, 65532, 65532, 65532,
29616, 59232, 65532, 65532, 65532, 65532, 65532, 65532,
}
};
/*
* XXX should be in net80211
*/
static int ieee80211_mpdudensity_map[] = {
0, /* IEEE80211_HTCAP_MPDUDENSITY_NA */
25, /* IEEE80211_HTCAP_MPDUDENSITY_025 */
50, /* IEEE80211_HTCAP_MPDUDENSITY_05 */
100, /* IEEE80211_HTCAP_MPDUDENSITY_1 */
200, /* IEEE80211_HTCAP_MPDUDENSITY_2 */
400, /* IEEE80211_HTCAP_MPDUDENSITY_4 */
800, /* IEEE80211_HTCAP_MPDUDENSITY_8 */
1600, /* IEEE80211_HTCAP_MPDUDENSITY_16 */
};
/*
* XXX should be in the HAL/net80211 ?
*/
#define BITS_PER_BYTE 8
#define OFDM_PLCP_BITS 22
#define HT_RC_2_MCS(_rc) ((_rc) & 0x7f)
#define HT_RC_2_STREAMS(_rc) ((((_rc) & 0x78) >> 3) + 1)
#define L_STF 8
#define L_LTF 8
#define L_SIG 4
#define HT_SIG 8
#define HT_STF 4
#define HT_LTF(_ns) (4 * (_ns))
#define SYMBOL_TIME(_ns) ((_ns) << 2) // ns * 4 us
#define SYMBOL_TIME_HALFGI(_ns) (((_ns) * 18 + 4) / 5) // ns * 3.6 us
#define NUM_SYMBOLS_PER_USEC(_usec) (_usec >> 2)
#define NUM_SYMBOLS_PER_USEC_HALFGI(_usec) (((_usec*5)-4)/18)
#define IS_HT_RATE(_rate) ((_rate) & 0x80)
const uint32_t bits_per_symbol[][2] = {
/* 20MHz 40MHz */
{ 26, 54 }, // 0: BPSK
{ 52, 108 }, // 1: QPSK 1/2
{ 78, 162 }, // 2: QPSK 3/4
{ 104, 216 }, // 3: 16-QAM 1/2
{ 156, 324 }, // 4: 16-QAM 3/4
{ 208, 432 }, // 5: 64-QAM 2/3
{ 234, 486 }, // 6: 64-QAM 3/4
{ 260, 540 }, // 7: 64-QAM 5/6
{ 52, 108 }, // 8: BPSK
{ 104, 216 }, // 9: QPSK 1/2
{ 156, 324 }, // 10: QPSK 3/4
{ 208, 432 }, // 11: 16-QAM 1/2
{ 312, 648 }, // 12: 16-QAM 3/4
{ 416, 864 }, // 13: 64-QAM 2/3
{ 468, 972 }, // 14: 64-QAM 3/4
{ 520, 1080 }, // 15: 64-QAM 5/6
{ 78, 162 }, // 16: BPSK
{ 156, 324 }, // 17: QPSK 1/2
{ 234, 486 }, // 18: QPSK 3/4
{ 312, 648 }, // 19: 16-QAM 1/2
{ 468, 972 }, // 20: 16-QAM 3/4
{ 624, 1296 }, // 21: 64-QAM 2/3
{ 702, 1458 }, // 22: 64-QAM 3/4
{ 780, 1620 }, // 23: 64-QAM 5/6
{ 104, 216 }, // 24: BPSK
{ 208, 432 }, // 25: QPSK 1/2
{ 312, 648 }, // 26: QPSK 3/4
{ 416, 864 }, // 27: 16-QAM 1/2
{ 624, 1296 }, // 28: 16-QAM 3/4
{ 832, 1728 }, // 29: 64-QAM 2/3
{ 936, 1944 }, // 30: 64-QAM 3/4
{ 1040, 2160 }, // 31: 64-QAM 5/6
};
/*
* Fill in the rate array information based on the current
* node configuration and the choices made by the rate
* selection code and ath_buf setup code.
*
* Later on, this may end up also being made by the
* rate control code, but for now it can live here.
*
* This needs to be called just before the packet is
* queued to the software queue or hardware queue,
* so all of the needed fields in bf_state are setup.
*/
void
ath_tx_rate_fill_rcflags(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_buf *bf)
{
struct ieee80211_node *ni = bf->bf_node;
struct ieee80211com *ic = ni->ni_ic;
const HAL_RATE_TABLE *rt = sc->sc_currates;
struct ath_rc_series *rc = bf->bf_state.bfs_rc;
uint8_t rate;
int i;
for (i = 0; i < ATH_RC_NUM; i++) {
rc[i].flags = 0;
if (rc[i].tries == 0)
continue;
rate = rt->info[rc[i].rix].rateCode;
/*
* XXX only do this for legacy rates?
*/
if (bf->bf_state.bfs_shpream)
rate |= rt->info[rc[i].rix].shortPreamble;
/*
* Save this, used by the TX and completion code
*/
rc[i].ratecode = rate;
Remove duplicate txflags field from ath_buf. rename bf_state.bfs_flags to bf_state.bfs_txflags, as that is what it effectively is.
2012-04-07 02:01:26 +00:00
if (bf->bf_state.bfs_txflags &
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
(HAL_TXDESC_RTSENA | HAL_TXDESC_CTSENA))
rc[i].flags |= ATH_RC_RTSCTS_FLAG;
/* Only enable shortgi, 2040, dual-stream if HT is set */
if (IS_HT_RATE(rate)) {
rc[i].flags |= ATH_RC_HT_FLAG;
if (ni->ni_chw == 40)
rc[i].flags |= ATH_RC_CW40_FLAG;
if (ni->ni_chw == 40 &&
ic->ic_htcaps & IEEE80211_HTCAP_SHORTGI40 &&
ni->ni_htcap & IEEE80211_HTCAP_SHORTGI40)
rc[i].flags |= ATH_RC_SGI_FLAG;
if (ni->ni_chw == 20 &&
ic->ic_htcaps & IEEE80211_HTCAP_SHORTGI20 &&
ni->ni_htcap & IEEE80211_HTCAP_SHORTGI20)
rc[i].flags |= ATH_RC_SGI_FLAG;
/* XXX dual stream? and 3-stream? */
}
/*
* Calculate the maximum 4ms frame length based
* on the MCS rate, SGI and channel width flags.
*/
if ((rc[i].flags & ATH_RC_HT_FLAG) &&
(HT_RC_2_MCS(rate) < 32)) {
int j;
if (rc[i].flags & ATH_RC_CW40_FLAG) {
if (rc[i].flags & ATH_RC_SGI_FLAG)
j = MCS_HT40_SGI;
else
j = MCS_HT40;
} else {
if (rc[i].flags & ATH_RC_SGI_FLAG)
j = MCS_HT20_SGI;
else
j = MCS_HT20;
}
rc[i].max4msframelen =
ath_max_4ms_framelen[j][HT_RC_2_MCS(rate)];
} else
rc[i].max4msframelen = 0;
DPRINTF(sc, ATH_DEBUG_SW_TX_AGGR,
"%s: i=%d, rate=0x%x, flags=0x%x, max4ms=%d\n",
__func__, i, rate, rc[i].flags, rc[i].max4msframelen);
}
}
/*
* Return the number of delimiters to be added to
* meet the minimum required mpdudensity.
*
* Caller should make sure that the rate is HT.
*
* TODO: is this delimiter calculation supposed to be the
* total frame length, the hdr length, the data length (including
* delimiters, padding, CRC, etc) or ?
*
* TODO: this should ensure that the rate control information
* HAS been setup for the first rate.
*
* TODO: ensure this is only called for MCS rates.
*
* TODO: enforce MCS < 31
*/
static int
ath_compute_num_delims(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_buf *first_bf,
uint16_t pktlen)
{
const HAL_RATE_TABLE *rt = sc->sc_currates;
struct ieee80211_node *ni = first_bf->bf_node;
struct ieee80211vap *vap = ni->ni_vap;
int ndelim, mindelim = 0;
int mpdudensity; /* in 1/100'th of a microsecond */
uint8_t rc, rix, flags;
int width, half_gi;
uint32_t nsymbits, nsymbols;
uint16_t minlen;
/*
* vap->iv_ampdu_density is a value, rather than the actual
* density.
*/
if (vap->iv_ampdu_density > IEEE80211_HTCAP_MPDUDENSITY_16)
mpdudensity = 1600; /* maximum density */
else
mpdudensity = ieee80211_mpdudensity_map[vap->iv_ampdu_density];
/* Select standard number of delimiters based on frame length */
ndelim = ATH_AGGR_GET_NDELIM(pktlen);
/*
* If encryption is enabled, add extra delimiters to let the
* crypto hardware catch up. This could be tuned per-MAC and
* per-rate, but for now we'll simply assume encryption is
* always enabled.
Add a new option to limit the maximum size of aggregates. The default is to limit them to what the hardware is capable of. Add sysctl twiddles for both the non-RTS and RTS protected aggregate generation. Whilst here, add some comments about stuff that I've discovered during my exploration of the TX aggregate / delimiter setup path from the reference driver.
2013-02-21 06:18:40 +00:00
*
* Also note that the Atheros reference driver inserts two
* delimiters by default for pre-AR9380 peers. This will
* include "that" required delimiter.
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
*/
ndelim += ATH_AGGR_ENCRYPTDELIM;
For AR9380 NICs - the non-enterprise versions don't support RTS protection of small (< 256 byte) aggregate frames. This needs to be done or 11n aggregation TX just simply doesn't work on these NICs. Whilst here, extend some debug printing; I was using this whilst debugging the TX power setup in the TX descriptor(s) on the AR9380.
2012-11-03 22:13:42 +00:00
/*
* For AR9380, there's a minimum number of delimeters
* required when doing RTS.
Add a new option to limit the maximum size of aggregates. The default is to limit them to what the hardware is capable of. Add sysctl twiddles for both the non-RTS and RTS protected aggregate generation. Whilst here, add some comments about stuff that I've discovered during my exploration of the TX aggregate / delimiter setup path from the reference driver.
2013-02-21 06:18:40 +00:00
*
* XXX TODO: this is only needed if (a) RTS/CTS is enabled, and
* XXX (b) this is the first sub-frame in the aggregate.
For AR9380 NICs - the non-enterprise versions don't support RTS protection of small (< 256 byte) aggregate frames. This needs to be done or 11n aggregation TX just simply doesn't work on these NICs. Whilst here, extend some debug printing; I was using this whilst debugging the TX power setup in the TX descriptor(s) on the AR9380.
2012-11-03 22:13:42 +00:00
*/
if (sc->sc_use_ent && (sc->sc_ent_cfg & AH_ENT_RTSCTS_DELIM_WAR)
&& ndelim < AH_FIRST_DESC_NDELIMS)
ndelim = AH_FIRST_DESC_NDELIMS;
Add an option to allow the minimum number of delimiters to be tweaked. This is primarily for debugging purposes. Tested: * AR5416, STA mode
2013-02-21 06:38:49 +00:00
/*
* If sc_delim_min_pad is non-zero, enforce it as the minimum
* pad delimiter count.
*/
if (sc->sc_delim_min_pad != 0)
ndelim = MAX(ndelim, sc->sc_delim_min_pad);
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
DPRINTF(sc, ATH_DEBUG_SW_TX_AGGR,
"%s: pktlen=%d, ndelim=%d, mpdudensity=%d\n",
__func__, pktlen, ndelim, mpdudensity);
/*
* If the MPDU density is 0, we can return here.
* Otherwise, we need to convert the desired mpdudensity
* into a byte length, based on the rate in the subframe.
*/
if (mpdudensity == 0)
return ndelim;
/*
* Convert desired mpdu density from microeconds to bytes based
* on highest rate in rate series (i.e. first rate) to determine
* required minimum length for subframe. Take into account
* whether high rate is 20 or 40Mhz and half or full GI.
*/
rix = first_bf->bf_state.bfs_rc[0].rix;
rc = rt->info[rix].rateCode;
flags = first_bf->bf_state.bfs_rc[0].flags;
width = !! (flags & ATH_RC_CW40_FLAG);
half_gi = !! (flags & ATH_RC_SGI_FLAG);
/*
* mpdudensity is in 1/100th of a usec, so divide by 100
*/
if (half_gi)
nsymbols = NUM_SYMBOLS_PER_USEC_HALFGI(mpdudensity);
else
nsymbols = NUM_SYMBOLS_PER_USEC(mpdudensity);
nsymbols /= 100;
if (nsymbols == 0)
nsymbols = 1;
nsymbits = bits_per_symbol[HT_RC_2_MCS(rc)][width];
minlen = (nsymbols * nsymbits) / BITS_PER_BYTE;
/*
* Min length is the minimum frame length for the
* required MPDU density.
*/
if (pktlen < minlen) {
mindelim = (minlen - pktlen) / ATH_AGGR_DELIM_SZ;
ndelim = MAX(mindelim, ndelim);
}
DPRINTF(sc, ATH_DEBUG_SW_TX_AGGR,
"%s: pktlen=%d, minlen=%d, rix=%x, rc=%x, width=%d, hgi=%d, ndelim=%d\n",
__func__, pktlen, minlen, rix, rc, width, half_gi, ndelim);
return ndelim;
}
/*
* Fetch the aggregation limit.
*
* It's the lowest of the four rate series 4ms frame length.
*/
static int
ath_get_aggr_limit(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_buf *bf)
{
Add a new option to limit the maximum size of aggregates. The default is to limit them to what the hardware is capable of. Add sysctl twiddles for both the non-RTS and RTS protected aggregate generation. Whilst here, add some comments about stuff that I've discovered during my exploration of the TX aggregate / delimiter setup path from the reference driver.
2013-02-21 06:18:40 +00:00
int amin = ATH_AGGR_MAXSIZE;
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
int i;
Add a new option to limit the maximum size of aggregates. The default is to limit them to what the hardware is capable of. Add sysctl twiddles for both the non-RTS and RTS protected aggregate generation. Whilst here, add some comments about stuff that I've discovered during my exploration of the TX aggregate / delimiter setup path from the reference driver.
2013-02-21 06:18:40 +00:00
if (sc->sc_aggr_limit > 0 && sc->sc_aggr_limit < ATH_AGGR_MAXSIZE)
amin = sc->sc_aggr_limit;
A few nitpicks: * Use ATH_RC_NUM instead of '4' when iterating over the ratecontrol series array. * A few style(9) fixes, hopefully no regressions here. * Add some comments that better describe what's going on.
2012-06-16 21:37:15 +00:00
for (i = 0; i < ATH_RC_NUM; i++) {
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
if (bf->bf_state.bfs_rc[i].tries == 0)
continue;
amin = MIN(amin, bf->bf_state.bfs_rc[i].max4msframelen);
}
DPRINTF(sc, ATH_DEBUG_SW_TX_AGGR, "%s: max frame len= %d\n",
__func__, amin);
return amin;
}
Include some preliminary TX HT rate scenario setup code. The AR5416 and later TX descriptors have new fields for supporting 11n bits (eg 20/40mhz mode, short/long GI) and enabling/disabling RTS/CTS protection per rate. These functions will be responsible for initialising the TX descriptors for the AR5416 and later chips for both HT and legacy frames. Beacon frames will remain using the non-11n TX descriptor setup for now; Linux ath9k does much the same. Note that these functions aren't yet used anywhere; a few more framework changes are needed before all of the right rate information is available for TX.
2011-02-01 08:03:01 +00:00
/*
* Setup a 11n rate series structure
*
* This should be called for both legacy and MCS rates.
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
*
* It, along with ath_buf_set_rate, must be called -after- a burst
* or aggregate is setup.
Include some preliminary TX HT rate scenario setup code. The AR5416 and later TX descriptors have new fields for supporting 11n bits (eg 20/40mhz mode, short/long GI) and enabling/disabling RTS/CTS protection per rate. These functions will be responsible for initialising the TX descriptors for the AR5416 and later chips for both HT and legacy frames. Beacon frames will remain using the non-11n TX descriptor setup for now; Linux ath9k does much the same. Note that these functions aren't yet used anywhere; a few more framework changes are needed before all of the right rate information is available for TX.
2011-02-01 08:03:01 +00:00
*/
static void
ath_rateseries_setup(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ieee80211_node *ni,
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
struct ath_buf *bf, HAL_11N_RATE_SERIES *series)
Include some preliminary TX HT rate scenario setup code. The AR5416 and later TX descriptors have new fields for supporting 11n bits (eg 20/40mhz mode, short/long GI) and enabling/disabling RTS/CTS protection per rate. These functions will be responsible for initialising the TX descriptors for the AR5416 and later chips for both HT and legacy frames. Beacon frames will remain using the non-11n TX descriptor setup for now; Linux ath9k does much the same. Note that these functions aren't yet used anywhere; a few more framework changes are needed before all of the right rate information is available for TX.
2011-02-01 08:03:01 +00:00
{
struct ieee80211com *ic = ni->ni_ic;
struct ath_hal *ah = sc->sc_ah;
HAL_BOOL shortPreamble = AH_FALSE;
const HAL_RATE_TABLE *rt = sc->sc_currates;
int i;
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
int pktlen;
Remove duplicate txflags field from ath_buf. rename bf_state.bfs_flags to bf_state.bfs_txflags, as that is what it effectively is.
2012-04-07 02:01:26 +00:00
int flags = bf->bf_state.bfs_txflags;
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
struct ath_rc_series *rc = bf->bf_state.bfs_rc;
Include some preliminary TX HT rate scenario setup code. The AR5416 and later TX descriptors have new fields for supporting 11n bits (eg 20/40mhz mode, short/long GI) and enabling/disabling RTS/CTS protection per rate. These functions will be responsible for initialising the TX descriptors for the AR5416 and later chips for both HT and legacy frames. Beacon frames will remain using the non-11n TX descriptor setup for now; Linux ath9k does much the same. Note that these functions aren't yet used anywhere; a few more framework changes are needed before all of the right rate information is available for TX.
2011-02-01 08:03:01 +00:00
if ((ic->ic_flags & IEEE80211_F_SHPREAMBLE) &&
(ni->ni_capinfo & IEEE80211_CAPINFO_SHORT_PREAMBLE))
shortPreamble = AH_TRUE;
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
/*
* If this is the first frame in an aggregate series,
* use the aggregate length.
*/
if (bf->bf_state.bfs_aggr)
pktlen = bf->bf_state.bfs_al;
else
pktlen = bf->bf_state.bfs_pktlen;
/*
* XXX TODO: modify this routine to use the bfs_rc[x].flags
* XXX fields.
*/
Include some preliminary TX HT rate scenario setup code. The AR5416 and later TX descriptors have new fields for supporting 11n bits (eg 20/40mhz mode, short/long GI) and enabling/disabling RTS/CTS protection per rate. These functions will be responsible for initialising the TX descriptors for the AR5416 and later chips for both HT and legacy frames. Beacon frames will remain using the non-11n TX descriptor setup for now; Linux ath9k does much the same. Note that these functions aren't yet used anywhere; a few more framework changes are needed before all of the right rate information is available for TX.
2011-02-01 08:03:01 +00:00
memset(series, 0, sizeof(HAL_11N_RATE_SERIES) * 4);
A few nitpicks: * Use ATH_RC_NUM instead of '4' when iterating over the ratecontrol series array. * A few style(9) fixes, hopefully no regressions here. * Add some comments that better describe what's going on.
2012-06-16 21:37:15 +00:00
for (i = 0; i < ATH_RC_NUM; i++) {
* Don't setup the scenario if the try count is 0 * Comment what else is going on during rate scenario setup
2011-02-22 00:01:19 +00:00
/* Only set flags for actual TX attempts */
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
if (rc[i].tries == 0)
* Don't setup the scenario if the try count is 0 * Comment what else is going on during rate scenario setup
2011-02-22 00:01:19 +00:00
continue;
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
series[i].Tries = rc[i].tries;
* Don't setup the scenario if the try count is 0 * Comment what else is going on during rate scenario setup
2011-02-22 00:01:19 +00:00
Add a new option to limit the maximum size of aggregates. The default is to limit them to what the hardware is capable of. Add sysctl twiddles for both the non-RTS and RTS protected aggregate generation. Whilst here, add some comments about stuff that I've discovered during my exploration of the TX aggregate / delimiter setup path from the reference driver.
2013-02-21 06:18:40 +00:00
/*
* XXX TODO: When the NIC is capable of three stream TX,
* transmit 1/2 stream rates on two streams.
*
* This reduces the power consumption of the NIC and
* keeps it within the PCIe slot power limits.
*/
Part #2 of the TX chainmask changes: * Remove ar5416UpdateChainmasks(); * Remove the TX chainmask override code from the ar5416 TX descriptor setup routines; * Write a driver method to calculate the current chainmask based on the operating mode and update the driver state; * Call the HAL chainmask method before calling ath_hal_reset(); * Use the currently configured chainmask in the TX descriptors rather than the hardware TX chainmasks. Tested: * AR5416, STA/AP mode - legacy and 11n modes
2013-02-25 22:45:02 +00:00
series[i].ChSel = sc->sc_cur_txchainmask;
* Don't setup the scenario if the try count is 0 * Comment what else is going on during rate scenario setup
2011-02-22 00:01:19 +00:00
Don't set the RTS/CTS enable bit per-scenario if the global RTS/CTS flags aren't set.
2011-02-22 04:41:04 +00:00
if (flags & (HAL_TXDESC_RTSENA | HAL_TXDESC_CTSENA))
Include some preliminary TX HT rate scenario setup code. The AR5416 and later TX descriptors have new fields for supporting 11n bits (eg 20/40mhz mode, short/long GI) and enabling/disabling RTS/CTS protection per rate. These functions will be responsible for initialising the TX descriptors for the AR5416 and later chips for both HT and legacy frames. Beacon frames will remain using the non-11n TX descriptor setup for now; Linux ath9k does much the same. Note that these functions aren't yet used anywhere; a few more framework changes are needed before all of the right rate information is available for TX.
2011-02-01 08:03:01 +00:00
series[i].RateFlags |= HAL_RATESERIES_RTS_CTS;
* Don't setup the scenario if the try count is 0 * Comment what else is going on during rate scenario setup
2011-02-22 00:01:19 +00:00
After discussing with Bernhard, the "right" way in net80211 to check the channel width is ni->ni_chw, which is set to the negotiated channel width. ni->ni_htflags is the capability, rather than the negotiated value. Teach both the TX path and the sample rate module about this.
2011-03-25 10:55:25 +00:00
/*
* Transmit 40MHz frames only if the node has negotiated
* it rather than whether the node is capable of it or not.
* It's subtly different in the hostap case.
*/
if (ni->ni_chw == 40)
Include some preliminary TX HT rate scenario setup code. The AR5416 and later TX descriptors have new fields for supporting 11n bits (eg 20/40mhz mode, short/long GI) and enabling/disabling RTS/CTS protection per rate. These functions will be responsible for initialising the TX descriptors for the AR5416 and later chips for both HT and legacy frames. Beacon frames will remain using the non-11n TX descriptor setup for now; Linux ath9k does much the same. Note that these functions aren't yet used anywhere; a few more framework changes are needed before all of the right rate information is available for TX.
2011-02-01 08:03:01 +00:00
series[i].RateFlags |= HAL_RATESERIES_2040;
Enable setting the short-GI bit when TX'ing HT rates but only if the hardware supports it. Since ni->ni_htcap in hostap mode is what the remote end has advertised, not what has been negotiated/decided, we need to check ourselves what the current channel width is and what the hardware supports before enabling short-GI. It's important that short-GI isn't enabled when it isn't negotiated and when the hardware doesn't support it (ie, short-gi for 20mhz channels on any chip < AR9287.) I've quickly verified this on the AR9285 in 11n mode.
2011-05-30 15:06:57 +00:00
Just be double-sure short-gi isn't being enabled in 20mhz mode.
2011-02-17 17:35:09 +00:00
/*
Enable setting the short-GI bit when TX'ing HT rates but only if the hardware supports it. Since ni->ni_htcap in hostap mode is what the remote end has advertised, not what has been negotiated/decided, we need to check ourselves what the current channel width is and what the hardware supports before enabling short-GI. It's important that short-GI isn't enabled when it isn't negotiated and when the hardware doesn't support it (ie, short-gi for 20mhz channels on any chip < AR9287.) I've quickly verified this on the AR9285 in 11n mode.
2011-05-30 15:06:57 +00:00
* Set short-GI only if the node has advertised it
* the channel width is suitable, and we support it.
* We don't currently have a "negotiated" set of bits -
* ni_htcap is what the remote end sends, not what this
* node is capable of.
Just be double-sure short-gi isn't being enabled in 20mhz mode.
2011-02-17 17:35:09 +00:00
*/
Enable setting the short-GI bit when TX'ing HT rates but only if the hardware supports it. Since ni->ni_htcap in hostap mode is what the remote end has advertised, not what has been negotiated/decided, we need to check ourselves what the current channel width is and what the hardware supports before enabling short-GI. It's important that short-GI isn't enabled when it isn't negotiated and when the hardware doesn't support it (ie, short-gi for 20mhz channels on any chip < AR9287.) I've quickly verified this on the AR9285 in 11n mode.
2011-05-30 15:06:57 +00:00
if (ni->ni_chw == 40 &&
ic->ic_htcaps & IEEE80211_HTCAP_SHORTGI40 &&
ni->ni_htcap & IEEE80211_HTCAP_SHORTGI40)
series[i].RateFlags |= HAL_RATESERIES_HALFGI;
if (ni->ni_chw == 20 &&
ic->ic_htcaps & IEEE80211_HTCAP_SHORTGI20 &&
ni->ni_htcap & IEEE80211_HTCAP_SHORTGI20)
Include some preliminary TX HT rate scenario setup code. The AR5416 and later TX descriptors have new fields for supporting 11n bits (eg 20/40mhz mode, short/long GI) and enabling/disabling RTS/CTS protection per rate. These functions will be responsible for initialising the TX descriptors for the AR5416 and later chips for both HT and legacy frames. Beacon frames will remain using the non-11n TX descriptor setup for now; Linux ath9k does much the same. Note that these functions aren't yet used anywhere; a few more framework changes are needed before all of the right rate information is available for TX.
2011-02-01 08:03:01 +00:00
series[i].RateFlags |= HAL_RATESERIES_HALFGI;
Part #2 of the TX chainmask changes: * Remove ar5416UpdateChainmasks(); * Remove the TX chainmask override code from the ar5416 TX descriptor setup routines; * Write a driver method to calculate the current chainmask based on the operating mode and update the driver state; * Call the HAL chainmask method before calling ath_hal_reset(); * Use the currently configured chainmask in the TX descriptors rather than the hardware TX chainmasks. Tested: * AR5416, STA/AP mode - legacy and 11n modes
2013-02-25 22:45:02 +00:00
/*
* XXX TODO: STBC if it's possible
*/
/*
* XXX TODO: LDPC if it's possible
*/
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
series[i].Rate = rt->info[rc[i].rix].rateCode;
Introduce a couple more fields in the rate scenario setup as part of (future) TPC support in the AR9300 HAL. This is effectively a no-op for the moment as (a) TPC isn't really supported, (b) the AR9300 HAL isn't yet public, and (c) the existing HAL code doesn't use these fields. Obtained from: Qualcomm Atheros
2012-07-27 11:43:10 +00:00
series[i].RateIndex = rc[i].rix;
series[i].tx_power_cap = 0x3f; /* XXX for now */
Include some preliminary TX HT rate scenario setup code. The AR5416 and later TX descriptors have new fields for supporting 11n bits (eg 20/40mhz mode, short/long GI) and enabling/disabling RTS/CTS protection per rate. These functions will be responsible for initialising the TX descriptors for the AR5416 and later chips for both HT and legacy frames. Beacon frames will remain using the non-11n TX descriptor setup for now; Linux ath9k does much the same. Note that these functions aren't yet used anywhere; a few more framework changes are needed before all of the right rate information is available for TX.
2011-02-01 08:03:01 +00:00
A few nitpicks: * Use ATH_RC_NUM instead of '4' when iterating over the ratecontrol series array. * A few style(9) fixes, hopefully no regressions here. * Add some comments that better describe what's going on.
2012-06-16 21:37:15 +00:00
/*
* PktDuration doesn't include slot, ACK, RTS, etc timing -
* it's just the packet duration
*/
Implement setting the short preamble bit if it's needed for the current node. Short preamble rates are only for legacy rates; MCS rate codes don't have a short preamble code like this.
2011-02-21 03:52:51 +00:00
if (series[i].Rate & IEEE80211_RATE_MCS) {
Include some preliminary TX HT rate scenario setup code. The AR5416 and later TX descriptors have new fields for supporting 11n bits (eg 20/40mhz mode, short/long GI) and enabling/disabling RTS/CTS protection per rate. These functions will be responsible for initialising the TX descriptors for the AR5416 and later chips for both HT and legacy frames. Beacon frames will remain using the non-11n TX descriptor setup for now; Linux ath9k does much the same. Note that these functions aren't yet used anywhere; a few more framework changes are needed before all of the right rate information is available for TX.
2011-02-01 08:03:01 +00:00
series[i].PktDuration =
ath_computedur_ht(pktlen
Implement setting the short preamble bit if it's needed for the current node. Short preamble rates are only for legacy rates; MCS rate codes don't have a short preamble code like this.
2011-02-21 03:52:51 +00:00
, series[i].Rate
The number of streams is not based on the interface stream count, but the number of streams needed for that MCS rate.
2011-03-13 08:23:59 +00:00
, HT_RC_2_STREAMS(series[i].Rate)
, series[i].RateFlags & HAL_RATESERIES_2040
.. how'd this compile before I commit it and then not now? Fixed.
2011-02-11 14:07:27 +00:00
, series[i].RateFlags & HAL_RATESERIES_HALFGI);
Include some preliminary TX HT rate scenario setup code. The AR5416 and later TX descriptors have new fields for supporting 11n bits (eg 20/40mhz mode, short/long GI) and enabling/disabling RTS/CTS protection per rate. These functions will be responsible for initialising the TX descriptors for the AR5416 and later chips for both HT and legacy frames. Beacon frames will remain using the non-11n TX descriptor setup for now; Linux ath9k does much the same. Note that these functions aren't yet used anywhere; a few more framework changes are needed before all of the right rate information is available for TX.
2011-02-01 08:03:01 +00:00
} else {
Clean up setting the short preamble bit in the rate - this way it is very obvious (and cleanly so) that it occurs for non-11n rates.
2011-03-22 13:39:00 +00:00
if (shortPreamble)
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
series[i].Rate |=
rt->info[rc[i].rix].shortPreamble;
Include some preliminary TX HT rate scenario setup code. The AR5416 and later TX descriptors have new fields for supporting 11n bits (eg 20/40mhz mode, short/long GI) and enabling/disabling RTS/CTS protection per rate. These functions will be responsible for initialising the TX descriptors for the AR5416 and later chips for both HT and legacy frames. Beacon frames will remain using the non-11n TX descriptor setup for now; Linux ath9k does much the same. Note that these functions aren't yet used anywhere; a few more framework changes are needed before all of the right rate information is available for TX.
2011-02-01 08:03:01 +00:00
series[i].PktDuration = ath_hal_computetxtime(ah,
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
rt, pktlen, rc[i].rix, shortPreamble);
Include some preliminary TX HT rate scenario setup code. The AR5416 and later TX descriptors have new fields for supporting 11n bits (eg 20/40mhz mode, short/long GI) and enabling/disabling RTS/CTS protection per rate. These functions will be responsible for initialising the TX descriptors for the AR5416 and later chips for both HT and legacy frames. Beacon frames will remain using the non-11n TX descriptor setup for now; Linux ath9k does much the same. Note that these functions aren't yet used anywhere; a few more framework changes are needed before all of the right rate information is available for TX.
2011-02-01 08:03:01 +00:00
}
}
}
#if 0
static void
A few nitpicks: * Use ATH_RC_NUM instead of '4' when iterating over the ratecontrol series array. * A few style(9) fixes, hopefully no regressions here. * Add some comments that better describe what's going on.
2012-06-16 21:37:15 +00:00
ath_rateseries_print(struct ath_softc *sc, HAL_11N_RATE_SERIES *series)
Include some preliminary TX HT rate scenario setup code. The AR5416 and later TX descriptors have new fields for supporting 11n bits (eg 20/40mhz mode, short/long GI) and enabling/disabling RTS/CTS protection per rate. These functions will be responsible for initialising the TX descriptors for the AR5416 and later chips for both HT and legacy frames. Beacon frames will remain using the non-11n TX descriptor setup for now; Linux ath9k does much the same. Note that these functions aren't yet used anywhere; a few more framework changes are needed before all of the right rate information is available for TX.
2011-02-01 08:03:01 +00:00
{
int i;
A few nitpicks: * Use ATH_RC_NUM instead of '4' when iterating over the ratecontrol series array. * A few style(9) fixes, hopefully no regressions here. * Add some comments that better describe what's going on.
2012-06-16 21:37:15 +00:00
for (i = 0; i < ATH_RC_NUM; i++) {
device_printf(sc->sc_dev ,"series %d: rate %x; tries %d; "
For AR9380 NICs - the non-enterprise versions don't support RTS protection of small (< 256 byte) aggregate frames. This needs to be done or 11n aggregation TX just simply doesn't work on these NICs. Whilst here, extend some debug printing; I was using this whilst debugging the TX power setup in the TX descriptor(s) on the AR9380.
2012-11-03 22:13:42 +00:00
"pktDuration %d; chSel %d; txpowcap %d, rateFlags %x\n",
Include some preliminary TX HT rate scenario setup code. The AR5416 and later TX descriptors have new fields for supporting 11n bits (eg 20/40mhz mode, short/long GI) and enabling/disabling RTS/CTS protection per rate. These functions will be responsible for initialising the TX descriptors for the AR5416 and later chips for both HT and legacy frames. Beacon frames will remain using the non-11n TX descriptor setup for now; Linux ath9k does much the same. Note that these functions aren't yet used anywhere; a few more framework changes are needed before all of the right rate information is available for TX.
2011-02-01 08:03:01 +00:00
i,
series[i].Rate,
series[i].Tries,
series[i].PktDuration,
series[i].ChSel,
For AR9380 NICs - the non-enterprise versions don't support RTS protection of small (< 256 byte) aggregate frames. This needs to be done or 11n aggregation TX just simply doesn't work on these NICs. Whilst here, extend some debug printing; I was using this whilst debugging the TX power setup in the TX descriptor(s) on the AR9380.
2012-11-03 22:13:42 +00:00
series[i].tx_power_cap,
Include some preliminary TX HT rate scenario setup code. The AR5416 and later TX descriptors have new fields for supporting 11n bits (eg 20/40mhz mode, short/long GI) and enabling/disabling RTS/CTS protection per rate. These functions will be responsible for initialising the TX descriptors for the AR5416 and later chips for both HT and legacy frames. Beacon frames will remain using the non-11n TX descriptor setup for now; Linux ath9k does much the same. Note that these functions aren't yet used anywhere; a few more framework changes are needed before all of the right rate information is available for TX.
2011-02-01 08:03:01 +00:00
series[i].RateFlags);
}
}
#endif
/*
* Setup the 11n rate scenario and burst duration for the given TX descriptor
* list.
*
* This isn't useful for sending beacon frames, which has different needs
* wrt what's passed into the rate scenario function.
*/
void
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
ath_buf_set_rate(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ieee80211_node *ni,
struct ath_buf *bf)
Include some preliminary TX HT rate scenario setup code. The AR5416 and later TX descriptors have new fields for supporting 11n bits (eg 20/40mhz mode, short/long GI) and enabling/disabling RTS/CTS protection per rate. These functions will be responsible for initialising the TX descriptors for the AR5416 and later chips for both HT and legacy frames. Beacon frames will remain using the non-11n TX descriptor setup for now; Linux ath9k does much the same. Note that these functions aren't yet used anywhere; a few more framework changes are needed before all of the right rate information is available for TX.
2011-02-01 08:03:01 +00:00
{
HAL_11N_RATE_SERIES series[4];
struct ath_desc *ds = bf->bf_desc;
struct ath_hal *ah = sc->sc_ah;
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
int is_pspoll = (bf->bf_state.bfs_atype == HAL_PKT_TYPE_PSPOLL);
int ctsrate = bf->bf_state.bfs_ctsrate;
Remove duplicate txflags field from ath_buf. rename bf_state.bfs_flags to bf_state.bfs_txflags, as that is what it effectively is.
2012-04-07 02:01:26 +00:00
int flags = bf->bf_state.bfs_txflags;
Include some preliminary TX HT rate scenario setup code. The AR5416 and later TX descriptors have new fields for supporting 11n bits (eg 20/40mhz mode, short/long GI) and enabling/disabling RTS/CTS protection per rate. These functions will be responsible for initialising the TX descriptors for the AR5416 and later chips for both HT and legacy frames. Beacon frames will remain using the non-11n TX descriptor setup for now; Linux ath9k does much the same. Note that these functions aren't yet used anywhere; a few more framework changes are needed before all of the right rate information is available for TX.
2011-02-01 08:03:01 +00:00
/* Setup rate scenario */
memset(&series, 0, sizeof(series));
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
ath_rateseries_setup(sc, ni, bf, series);
Include some preliminary TX HT rate scenario setup code. The AR5416 and later TX descriptors have new fields for supporting 11n bits (eg 20/40mhz mode, short/long GI) and enabling/disabling RTS/CTS protection per rate. These functions will be responsible for initialising the TX descriptors for the AR5416 and later chips for both HT and legacy frames. Beacon frames will remain using the non-11n TX descriptor setup for now; Linux ath9k does much the same. Note that these functions aren't yet used anywhere; a few more framework changes are needed before all of the right rate information is available for TX.
2011-02-01 08:03:01 +00:00
Don't set the RTS/CTS enable bit per-scenario if the global RTS/CTS flags aren't set.
2011-02-22 04:41:04 +00:00
#if 0
A few nitpicks: * Use ATH_RC_NUM instead of '4' when iterating over the ratecontrol series array. * A few style(9) fixes, hopefully no regressions here. * Add some comments that better describe what's going on.
2012-06-16 21:37:15 +00:00
ath_rateseries_print(sc, series);
Don't set the RTS/CTS enable bit per-scenario if the global RTS/CTS flags aren't set.
2011-02-22 04:41:04 +00:00
#endif
Include some preliminary TX HT rate scenario setup code. The AR5416 and later TX descriptors have new fields for supporting 11n bits (eg 20/40mhz mode, short/long GI) and enabling/disabling RTS/CTS protection per rate. These functions will be responsible for initialising the TX descriptors for the AR5416 and later chips for both HT and legacy frames. Beacon frames will remain using the non-11n TX descriptor setup for now; Linux ath9k does much the same. Note that these functions aren't yet used anywhere; a few more framework changes are needed before all of the right rate information is available for TX.
2011-02-01 08:03:01 +00:00
/* Set rate scenario */
A few nitpicks: * Use ATH_RC_NUM instead of '4' when iterating over the ratecontrol series array. * A few style(9) fixes, hopefully no regressions here. * Add some comments that better describe what's going on.
2012-06-16 21:37:15 +00:00
/*
* Note: Don't allow hardware to override the duration on
* ps-poll packets.
*/
Include some preliminary TX HT rate scenario setup code. The AR5416 and later TX descriptors have new fields for supporting 11n bits (eg 20/40mhz mode, short/long GI) and enabling/disabling RTS/CTS protection per rate. These functions will be responsible for initialising the TX descriptors for the AR5416 and later chips for both HT and legacy frames. Beacon frames will remain using the non-11n TX descriptor setup for now; Linux ath9k does much the same. Note that these functions aren't yet used anywhere; a few more framework changes are needed before all of the right rate information is available for TX.
2011-02-01 08:03:01 +00:00
ath_hal_set11nratescenario(ah, ds,
The current code used the fields in ath_set11nratescenario() . Use them correctly: * pass in whether to allow the hardware to override the duration field in the main data frame (durupdate_en) - PS_POLL frames in particular don't have the duration bit overriden; * there's no rts/cts duration here; that's done elsehwere
2011-02-12 02:14:19 +00:00
!is_pspoll, /* whether to override the duration or not */
Include some preliminary TX HT rate scenario setup code. The AR5416 and later TX descriptors have new fields for supporting 11n bits (eg 20/40mhz mode, short/long GI) and enabling/disabling RTS/CTS protection per rate. These functions will be responsible for initialising the TX descriptors for the AR5416 and later chips for both HT and legacy frames. Beacon frames will remain using the non-11n TX descriptor setup for now; Linux ath9k does much the same. Note that these functions aren't yet used anywhere; a few more framework changes are needed before all of the right rate information is available for TX.
2011-02-01 08:03:01 +00:00
ctsrate, /* rts/cts rate */
series, /* 11n rate series */
4, /* number of series */
flags);
/* Set burst duration */
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
/*
* This is only required when doing 11n burst, not aggregation
* ie, if there's a second frame in a RIFS or A-MPDU burst
* w/ >1 A-MPDU frame bursting back to back.
* Normal A-MPDU doesn't do bursting -between- aggregates.
*
* .. and it's highly likely this won't ever be implemented
*/
Include some preliminary TX HT rate scenario setup code. The AR5416 and later TX descriptors have new fields for supporting 11n bits (eg 20/40mhz mode, short/long GI) and enabling/disabling RTS/CTS protection per rate. These functions will be responsible for initialising the TX descriptors for the AR5416 and later chips for both HT and legacy frames. Beacon frames will remain using the non-11n TX descriptor setup for now; Linux ath9k does much the same. Note that these functions aren't yet used anywhere; a few more framework changes are needed before all of the right rate information is available for TX.
2011-02-01 08:03:01 +00:00
//ath_hal_set11nburstduration(ah, ds, 8192);
}
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
/*
* Form an aggregate packet list.
*
* This function enforces the aggregate restrictions/requirements.
*
* These are:
*
* + The aggregate size maximum (64k for AR9160 and later, 8K for
* AR5416 when doing RTS frame protection.)
* + Maximum number of sub-frames for an aggregate
* + The aggregate delimiter size, giving MACs time to do whatever is
* needed before each frame
* + Enforce the BAW limit
*
* Each descriptor queued should have the DMA setup.
* The rate series, descriptor setup, linking, etc is all done
* externally. This routine simply chains them together.
* ath_tx_setds_11n() will take care of configuring the per-
* descriptor setup, and ath_buf_set_rate() will configure the
* rate control.
*
A few nitpicks: * Use ATH_RC_NUM instead of '4' when iterating over the ratecontrol series array. * A few style(9) fixes, hopefully no regressions here. * Add some comments that better describe what's going on.
2012-06-16 21:37:15 +00:00
* The TID lock is required for the entirety of this function.
*
* If some code in another thread adds to the head of this
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
* list, very strange behaviour will occur. Since retransmission is the
* only reason this will occur, and this routine is designed to be called
* from within the scheduler task, it won't ever clash with the completion
* task.
*
* So if you want to call this from an upper layer context (eg, to direct-
* dispatch aggregate frames to the hardware), please keep this in mind.
*/
ATH_AGGR_STATUS
A few nitpicks: * Use ATH_RC_NUM instead of '4' when iterating over the ratecontrol series array. * A few style(9) fixes, hopefully no regressions here. * Add some comments that better describe what's going on.
2012-06-16 21:37:15 +00:00
ath_tx_form_aggr(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_node *an,
struct ath_tid *tid, ath_bufhead *bf_q)
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
{
Revert r233227 and followup commits as it breaks CCMP PN replay detection. This showed up when doing heavy UDP throughput on SMP machines. The problem with this is because the 802.11 sequence number is being allocated separately to the CCMP PN replay number (which is assigned during ieee80211_crypto_encap()). Under significant throughput (200+ MBps) the TX path would be stressed enough that frame TX/retry would force sequence number and PN allocation to be out of order. So once the frames were reordered via 802.11 seqnos, the CCMP PN would be far out of order, causing most frames to be discarded by the receiver. I've fixed this in some local work by being forced to: (a) deal with the issues that lead to the parallel TX causing out of order sequence numbers in the first place; (b) fix all the packet queuing issues which lead to strange (but mostly valid) TX. I'll begin fixing these in a subsequent commit or five. PR: kern/166190
2012-06-11 06:59:28 +00:00
//struct ieee80211_node *ni = &an->an_node;
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
struct ath_buf *bf, *bf_first = NULL, *bf_prev = NULL;
int nframes = 0;
uint16_t aggr_limit = 0, al = 0, bpad = 0, al_delta, h_baw;
struct ieee80211_tx_ampdu *tap;
int status = ATH_AGGR_DONE;
int prev_frames = 0; /* XXX for AR5416 burst, not done here */
int prev_al = 0; /* XXX also for AR5416 burst */
Delete the per-TXQ locks and replace them with a single TX lock. I couldn't think of a way to maintain the hardware TXQ locks _and_ layer on top of that per-TXQ software queuing and any other kind of fine-grained locks (eg per-TID, or per-node locks.) So for now, to facilitate some further code refactoring and development as part of the final push to get software queue ps-poll and u-apsd handling into this driver, just do away with them entirely. I may eventually bring them back at some point, when it looks slightly more architectually cleaner to do so. But as it stands at the present, it's not really buying us much: * in order to properly serialise things and not get bitten by scheduling and locking interactions with things higher up in the stack, we need to wrap the whole TX path in a long held lock. Otherwise we can end up being pre-empted during frame handling, resulting in some out of order frame handling between sequence number allocation and encryption handling (ie, the seqno and the CCMP IV get out of sequence); * .. so whilst that's the case, holding the lock for that long means that we're acquiring and releasing the TXQ lock _inside_ that context; * And we also acquire it per-frame during frame completion, but we currently can't hold the lock for the duration of the TX completion as we need to call net80211 layer things with the locks _unheld_ to avoid LOR. * .. the other places were grab that lock are reset/flush, which don't happen often. My eventual aim is to change the TX path so all rejected frame transmissions and all frame completions result in any ieee80211_free_node() calls to occur outside of the TX lock; then I can cut back on the amount of locking that goes on here. There may be some LORs that occur when ieee80211_free_node() is called when the TX queue path fails; I'll begin to address these in follow-up commits.
2012-12-02 06:24:08 +00:00
ATH_TX_LOCK_ASSERT(sc);
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
tap = ath_tx_get_tx_tid(an, tid->tid);
if (tap == NULL) {
status = ATH_AGGR_ERROR;
goto finish;
}
h_baw = tap->txa_wnd / 2;
for (;;) {
Migrate the TID TXQ accesses to a new set of macros, rather than reusing the ATH_TXQ_* macros. * Introduce the new macros; * rename the TID queue and TID filtered frame queue so the compiler tells me I'm using the wrong macro. These should correspond 1:1 to the existing code.
2012-10-07 23:45:19 +00:00
bf = ATH_TID_FIRST(tid);
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
if (bf_first == NULL)
bf_first = bf;
if (bf == NULL) {
status = ATH_AGGR_DONE;
break;
} else {
/*
* It's the first frame;
* set the aggregation limit based on the
* rate control decision that has been made.
*/
aggr_limit = ath_get_aggr_limit(sc, bf_first);
}
/* Set this early just so things don't get confused */
bf->bf_next = NULL;
/*
* If the frame doesn't have a sequence number that we're
* tracking in the BAW (eg NULL QOS data frame), we can't
* aggregate it. Stop the aggregation process; the sender
* can then TX what's in the list thus far and then
* TX the frame individually.
*/
if (! bf->bf_state.bfs_dobaw) {
status = ATH_AGGR_NONAGGR;
break;
}
/*
* If any of the rates are non-HT, this packet
* can't be aggregated.
* XXX TODO: add a bf_state flag which gets marked
* if any active rate is non-HT.
*/
/*
* do not exceed aggregation limit
*/
al_delta = ATH_AGGR_DELIM_SZ + bf->bf_state.bfs_pktlen;
if (nframes &&
(aggr_limit < (al + bpad + al_delta + prev_al))) {
status = ATH_AGGR_LIMITED;
break;
}
Enforce the RTS aggregation limit if RTS/CTS protection is enabled; if any subframes in an aggregate have different protection from the first frame in the formed aggregate, don't add that frame to the aggregate. This is likely a suboptimal method (I think we'll mostly be OK marking frames that have seqno's with the same protection as normal data frames) but I'll just be cautious for now.
2012-04-07 03:22:11 +00:00
/*
* If RTS/CTS is set on the first frame, enforce
* the RTS aggregate limit.
*/
if (bf_first->bf_state.bfs_txflags &
(HAL_TXDESC_CTSENA | HAL_TXDESC_RTSENA)) {
if (nframes &&
(sc->sc_rts_aggr_limit <
(al + bpad + al_delta + prev_al))) {
status = ATH_AGGR_8K_LIMITED;
break;
}
}
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
/*
* Do not exceed subframe limit.
*/
if ((nframes + prev_frames) >= MIN((h_baw),
IEEE80211_AMPDU_SUBFRAME_DEFAULT)) {
status = ATH_AGGR_LIMITED;
break;
}
Delay sequence number allocation for A-MPDU until just before the frame is queued to the hardware. Because multiple concurrent paths can execute ath_start(), multiple concurrent paths can push frames into the software/hardware TX queue and since preemption/interrupting can occur, there's the possibility that a gap in time will occur between allocating the sequence number and queuing it to the hardware. Because of this, it's possible that a thread will have allocated a sequence number and then be preempted by another thread doing the same. If the second thread sneaks the frame into the BAW, the (earlier) sequence number of the first frame will be now outside the BAW and will result in the frame being constantly re-added to the tail of the queue. There it will live until the sequence numbers cycle around again. This also creates a hole in the RX BAW tracking which can also cause issues. This patch delays the sequence number allocation to occur only just before the frame is going to be added to the BAW. I've been wanting to do this anyway as part of a general code tidyup but I've not gotten around to it. This fixes the PR. However, it still makes it quite difficult to try and ensure in-order queuing and dequeuing of frames. Since multiple copies of ath_start() can be run at the same time (eg one TXing process thread, one TX completion task/one RX task) the driver may end up having frames dequeued and pushed into the hardware slightly/occasionally out of order. And, to make matters more annoying, net80211 may have the same behaviour - in the non-aggregation case, the TX code allocates sequence numbers before it's thrown to the driver. I'll open another PR to investigate this and potentially introduce some kind of final-pass TX serialisation before frames are thrown to the hardware. It's also very likely worthwhile adding some debugging code into ath(4) and net80211 to catch when/if this does occur. PR: kern/166190
2012-03-20 04:50:25 +00:00
/*
Enforce the RTS aggregation limit if RTS/CTS protection is enabled; if any subframes in an aggregate have different protection from the first frame in the formed aggregate, don't add that frame to the aggregate. This is likely a suboptimal method (I think we'll mostly be OK marking frames that have seqno's with the same protection as normal data frames) but I'll just be cautious for now.
2012-04-07 03:22:11 +00:00
* If the current frame has an RTS/CTS configuration
As I thought, this is a bad idea. When forming aggregates, the RTS/CTS stuff and rate control lookup is only done on the first frame.
2012-04-07 05:46:00 +00:00
* that differs from the first frame, override the
* subsequent frame with this config.
Enforce the RTS aggregation limit if RTS/CTS protection is enabled; if any subframes in an aggregate have different protection from the first frame in the formed aggregate, don't add that frame to the aggregate. This is likely a suboptimal method (I think we'll mostly be OK marking frames that have seqno's with the same protection as normal data frames) but I'll just be cautious for now.
2012-04-07 03:22:11 +00:00
*/
Fix a corner case that I noticed with the AR5416 (and it's currently crappy 802.11n performance, sigh.) With the AR5416, aggregates need to be limited to 8KiB if RTS/CTS is enabled. However, larger aggregates were going out with RTSCTS enabled. The following was going on: * The first buffer in the list would have RTS/CTS enabled in bf->bf_state.txflags; * The aggregate would be formed; * The "copy over the txflags from the first buffer" logic that I added blanked the RTS/CTS TX flags fields, and then copied the bf_first RTS/CTS flags over; * .. but that'd cause bf_first to be blanked out! And thus the flag was cleared; * So the rest of the aggregate formation would run with those flags cleared, and thus > 8KiB aggregates were formed. The driver is now (again) correctly limiting aggregate formation for the AR5416 but there are still other pending issues to resolve. Tested: * AR5416, STA mode
2013-02-08 09:07:03 +00:00
if (bf != bf_first) {
bf->bf_state.bfs_txflags &=
~ (HAL_TXDESC_RTSENA | HAL_TXDESC_CTSENA);
bf->bf_state.bfs_txflags |=
bf_first->bf_state.bfs_txflags &
(HAL_TXDESC_RTSENA | HAL_TXDESC_CTSENA);
}
Enforce the RTS aggregation limit if RTS/CTS protection is enabled; if any subframes in an aggregate have different protection from the first frame in the formed aggregate, don't add that frame to the aggregate. This is likely a suboptimal method (I think we'll mostly be OK marking frames that have seqno's with the same protection as normal data frames) but I'll just be cautious for now.
2012-04-07 03:22:11 +00:00
Delay sequence number allocation for A-MPDU until just before the frame is queued to the hardware. Because multiple concurrent paths can execute ath_start(), multiple concurrent paths can push frames into the software/hardware TX queue and since preemption/interrupting can occur, there's the possibility that a gap in time will occur between allocating the sequence number and queuing it to the hardware. Because of this, it's possible that a thread will have allocated a sequence number and then be preempted by another thread doing the same. If the second thread sneaks the frame into the BAW, the (earlier) sequence number of the first frame will be now outside the BAW and will result in the frame being constantly re-added to the tail of the queue. There it will live until the sequence numbers cycle around again. This also creates a hole in the RX BAW tracking which can also cause issues. This patch delays the sequence number allocation to occur only just before the frame is going to be added to the BAW. I've been wanting to do this anyway as part of a general code tidyup but I've not gotten around to it. This fixes the PR. However, it still makes it quite difficult to try and ensure in-order queuing and dequeuing of frames. Since multiple copies of ath_start() can be run at the same time (eg one TXing process thread, one TX completion task/one RX task) the driver may end up having frames dequeued and pushed into the hardware slightly/occasionally out of order. And, to make matters more annoying, net80211 may have the same behaviour - in the non-aggregation case, the TX code allocates sequence numbers before it's thrown to the driver. I'll open another PR to investigate this and potentially introduce some kind of final-pass TX serialisation before frames are thrown to the hardware. It's also very likely worthwhile adding some debugging code into ath(4) and net80211 to catch when/if this does occur. PR: kern/166190
2012-03-20 04:50:25 +00:00
/*
* If the packet has a sequence number, do not
* step outside of the block-ack window.
*/
if (! BAW_WITHIN(tap->txa_start, tap->txa_wnd,
SEQNO(bf->bf_state.bfs_seqno))) {
status = ATH_AGGR_BAW_CLOSED;
break;
}
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
/*
* this packet is part of an aggregate.
*/
Migrate the TID TXQ accesses to a new set of macros, rather than reusing the ATH_TXQ_* macros. * Introduce the new macros; * rename the TID queue and TID filtered frame queue so the compiler tells me I'm using the wrong macro. These should correspond 1:1 to the existing code.
2012-10-07 23:45:19 +00:00
ATH_TID_REMOVE(tid, bf, bf_list);
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
/* The TID lock is required for the BAW update */
ath_tx_addto_baw(sc, an, tid, bf);
bf->bf_state.bfs_addedbaw = 1;
/*
* XXX enforce ACK for aggregate frames (this needs to be
* XXX handled more gracefully?
*/
Remove duplicate txflags field from ath_buf. rename bf_state.bfs_flags to bf_state.bfs_txflags, as that is what it effectively is.
2012-04-07 02:01:26 +00:00
if (bf->bf_state.bfs_txflags & HAL_TXDESC_NOACK) {
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
device_printf(sc->sc_dev,
"%s: HAL_TXDESC_NOACK set for an aggregate frame?\n",
__func__);
Remove duplicate txflags field from ath_buf. rename bf_state.bfs_flags to bf_state.bfs_txflags, as that is what it effectively is.
2012-04-07 02:01:26 +00:00
bf->bf_state.bfs_txflags &= (~HAL_TXDESC_NOACK);
Introduce TX aggregation and software TX queue management for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices. This is a very large commit - the complete history can be found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch. Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently support this. In summary: TX path: * queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue * some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can go out before any software queued frames are queued. * Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an aggregation session. * Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate frames. * Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware. * Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel configuration. * The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic. * When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it by the TXQ lock. Rate control: * Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate control selection have that applied before each TX, just to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic" rate control special cased.) * Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and errors. * Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is based on failure rates. Misc: * Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211 layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on addressing this mess in the future. Known issues: * There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the "correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained. * Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just hangs. * There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang". * Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation. Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence number if the frame is going into an aggregation session. However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until this is sorted out. * HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above work is complete. * The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to send along patches. * .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically, the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate. Again, patches will be gratefully accepted. Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default. Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc. Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
2011-11-08 22:43:13 +00:00
}
/*
* Add the now owned buffer (which isn't
* on the software TXQ any longer) to our
* aggregate frame list.
*/
TAILQ_INSERT_TAIL(bf_q, bf, bf_list);
nframes ++;
/* Completion handler */
bf->bf_comp = ath_tx_aggr_comp;
/*
* add padding for previous frame to aggregation length
*/
al += bpad + al_delta;
/*
* Calculate delimiters needed for the current frame
*/
bf->bf_state.bfs_ndelim =
ath_compute_num_delims(sc, bf_first,
bf->bf_state.bfs_pktlen);
/*
* Calculate the padding needed from this set of delimiters,
* used when calculating if the next frame will fit in
* the aggregate.
*/
bpad = PADBYTES(al_delta) + (bf->bf_state.bfs_ndelim << 2);
/*
* Chain the buffers together
*/
if (bf_prev)
bf_prev->bf_next = bf;
bf_prev = bf;
/*
* XXX TODO: if any sub-frames have RTS/CTS enabled;
* enable it for the entire aggregate.
*/
#if 0
/*
* terminate aggregation on a small packet boundary
*/
if (bf->bf_state.bfs_pktlen < ATH_AGGR_MINPLEN) {
status = ATH_AGGR_SHORTPKT;
break;
}
#endif
}
finish:
/*
* Just in case the list was empty when we tried to
* dequeue a packet ..
*/
if (bf_first) {
bf_first->bf_state.bfs_al = al;
bf_first->bf_state.bfs_nframes = nframes;
}
return status;
}
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