queue length. The default value for this parameter is 50, which is
quite low for many of today's uses and the only way to modify this
parameter right now is to edit if_var.h file. Also add read-only
sysctl with the same name, so that it's possible to retrieve the
current value.
MFC after: 1 month
This framework allows drivers to abstract the rate control algorithm and
just feed the framework with the usable parameters. The rate control
framework will now deal with passing the parameters to the selected
algorithm. Right now we have AMRR (the default) and RSSADAPT but there's
no way to select one with ifconfig, yet.
The objective is to have more rate control algorithms in the net80211
stack so all drivers[0] can use it. Ideally, we'll have the well-known
sample rate control algorithm in the net80211 at some point so all
drivers can use it (not just ath).
[0] all drivers that do rate control in software, that is.
Reviewed by: bschmidt, thompsa, weyongo
MFC after: 1 months
was major changes to initialize RF chipset and set H/W registers and
removed a lot of magic numbers on code. Details are as follows:
- uses the endpoint 0x89 to get TX status information which used to
get TX complete or retry numbers or get a beacon interrupt. It's
only valuable for RTL8187B.
- removes urtw_write[8|16|32]_i functions that it's useless now.
- uses ic->ic_updateslot to set SLOT, SIFS, DIES, EIFS, CW_VAL
registers that doesn't set these whenever the channel is changed.
- code for initializing RF chipset for RTL8187B changed a lot that
there was many problems on TX transfers so it doesn't work properly
even if just for a ping/pong. Now it becomes more stable than
before that TX throughputs using netperf(1) were about 15 ~ 17Mbps/s
though sometimes it encounters packet losses.
- removes a lot of magic numbers that in the previous all of
representing RX and TX descriptors were consisted of magic numbers
and structures. It'd be more readable rather than before.
- calculates TX duration more accurately for urtw(4) devices.
- style(9)
IF_ADDR_UNLOCK() across network device drivers when accessing the
per-interface multicast address list, if_multiaddrs. This will
allow us to change the locking strategy without affecting our driver
programming interface or binary interface.
For two wireless drivers, remove unnecessary locking, since they
don't actually access the multicast address list.
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 6 weeks
