rc80211-pid: add debugging

This adds a new debugfs file from which rate control relevant events can be
read one event per line. The output includes the current time, so graphs can be
created showing the rate control parameters. This helps in evaluating and
tuning rate control parameters. While at it, we split headers and code for
better readability.

Signed-off-by: Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 444 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c b/net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c
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+++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2002-2005, Instant802 Networks, Inc.
+ * Copyright 2005, Devicescape Software, Inc.
+ * Copyright 2007, Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>
+ * Copyright 2007, Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/netdevice.h>
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <linux/skbuff.h>
+
+#include <net/mac80211.h>
+#include "ieee80211_rate.h"
+
+#include "rc80211_pid.h"
+
+
+/* This is an implementation of a TX rate control algorithm that uses a PID
+ * controller. Given a target failed frames rate, the controller decides about
+ * TX rate changes to meet the target failed frames rate.
+ *
+ * The controller basically computes the following:
+ *
+ * adj = CP * err + CI * err_avg + CD * (err - last_err) * (1 + sharpening)
+ *
+ * where
+ * 	adj	adjustment value that is used to switch TX rate (see below)
+ * 	err	current error: target vs. current failed frames percentage
+ * 	last_err	last error
+ * 	err_avg	average (i.e. poor man's integral) of recent errors
+ *	sharpening	non-zero when fast response is needed (i.e. right after
+ *			association or no frames sent for a long time), heading
+ * 			to zero over time
+ * 	CP	Proportional coefficient
+ * 	CI	Integral coefficient
+ * 	CD	Derivative coefficient
+ *
+ * CP, CI, CD are subject to careful tuning.
+ *
+ * The integral component uses a exponential moving average approach instead of
+ * an actual sliding window. The advantage is that we don't need to keep an
+ * array of the last N error values and computation is easier.
+ *
+ * Once we have the adj value, we map it to a rate by means of a learning
+ * algorithm. This algorithm keeps the state of the percentual failed frames
+ * difference between rates. The behaviour of the lowest available rate is kept
+ * as a reference value, and every time we switch between two rates, we compute
+ * the difference between the failed frames each rate exhibited. By doing so,
+ * we compare behaviours which different rates exhibited in adjacent timeslices,
+ * thus the comparison is minimally affected by external conditions. This
+ * difference gets propagated to the whole set of measurements, so that the
+ * reference is always the same. Periodically, we normalize this set so that
+ * recent events weigh the most. By comparing the adj value with this set, we
+ * avoid pejorative switches to lower rates and allow for switches to higher
+ * rates if they behaved well.
+ *
+ * Note that for the computations we use a fixed-point representation to avoid
+ * floating point arithmetic. Hence, all values are shifted left by
+ * RC_PID_ARITH_SHIFT.
+ */
+
+
+/* Shift the adjustment so that we won't switch to a lower rate if it exhibited
+ * a worse failed frames behaviour and we'll choose the highest rate whose
+ * failed frames behaviour is not worse than the one of the original rate
+ * target. While at it, check that the adjustment is within the ranges. Then,
+ * provide the new rate index. */
+static int rate_control_pid_shift_adjust(struct rc_pid_rateinfo *r,
+					 int adj, int cur, int l)
+{
+	int i, j, k, tmp;
+
+	if (cur + adj < 0)
+		return 0;
+	if (cur + adj >= l)
+		return l - 1;
+
+	i = r[cur + adj].rev_index;
+
+	j = r[cur].rev_index;
+
+	if (adj < 0) {
+			tmp = i;
+			for (k = j; k >= i; k--)
+				if (r[k].diff <= r[j].diff)
+					tmp = k;
+			return r[tmp].index;
+	} else if (adj > 0) {
+			tmp = i;
+			for (k = i + 1; k + i < l; k++)
+				if (r[k].diff <= r[i].diff)
+					tmp = k;
+			return r[tmp].index;
+	}
+	return cur + adj;
+}
+
+static void rate_control_pid_adjust_rate(struct ieee80211_local *local,
+					 struct sta_info *sta, int adj,
+					 struct rc_pid_rateinfo *rinfo)
+{
+	struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata;
+	struct ieee80211_hw_mode *mode;
+	int newidx;
+	int maxrate;
+	int back = (adj > 0) ? 1 : -1;
+
+	sdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(sta->dev);
+	if (sdata->bss && sdata->bss->force_unicast_rateidx > -1) {
+		/* forced unicast rate - do not change STA rate */
+		return;
+	}
+
+	mode = local->oper_hw_mode;
+	maxrate = sdata->bss ? sdata->bss->max_ratectrl_rateidx : -1;
+
+	newidx = rate_control_pid_shift_adjust(rinfo, adj, sta->txrate,
+					       mode->num_rates);
+
+	while (newidx != sta->txrate) {
+		if (rate_supported(sta, mode, newidx) &&
+		    (maxrate < 0 || newidx <= maxrate)) {
+			sta->txrate = newidx;
+			break;
+		}
+
+		newidx += back;
+	}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUGFS
+	rate_control_pid_event_rate_change(
+		&((struct rc_pid_sta_info *)sta->rate_ctrl_priv)->events,
+		newidx, mode->rates[newidx].rate);
+#endif
+}
+
+/* Normalize the failed frames per-rate differences. */
+static void rate_control_pid_normalize(struct rc_pid_rateinfo *r, int l)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	if (r[0].diff > RC_PID_NORM_OFFSET)
+		r[0].diff -= RC_PID_NORM_OFFSET;
+	else if (r[0].diff < -RC_PID_NORM_OFFSET)
+		r[0].diff += RC_PID_NORM_OFFSET;
+	for (i = 0; i < l - 1; i++)
+		if (r[i + 1].diff > r[i].diff + RC_PID_NORM_OFFSET)
+			r[i + 1].diff -= RC_PID_NORM_OFFSET;
+		else if (r[i + 1].diff <= r[i].diff)
+			r[i + 1].diff += RC_PID_NORM_OFFSET;
+}
+
+static void rate_control_pid_sample(struct rc_pid_info *pinfo,
+				    struct ieee80211_local *local,
+				    struct sta_info *sta)
+{
+	struct rc_pid_sta_info *spinfo = sta->rate_ctrl_priv;
+	struct rc_pid_rateinfo *rinfo = pinfo->rinfo;
+	struct ieee80211_hw_mode *mode;
+	u32 pf;
+	s32 err_avg;
+	s32 err_prop;
+	s32 err_int;
+	s32 err_der;
+	int adj, i, j, tmp;
+
+	mode = local->oper_hw_mode;
+	spinfo = sta->rate_ctrl_priv;
+
+	/* In case nothing happened during the previous control interval, turn
+	 * the sharpening factor on. */
+	if (jiffies - spinfo->last_sample > 2 * RC_PID_INTERVAL)
+		spinfo->sharp_cnt = RC_PID_SHARPENING_DURATION;
+
+	spinfo->last_sample = jiffies;
+
+	/* This should never happen, but in case, we assume the old sample is
+	 * still a good measurement and copy it. */
+	if (unlikely(spinfo->tx_num_xmit == 0))
+		pf = spinfo->last_pf;
+	else {
+		pf = spinfo->tx_num_failed * 100 / spinfo->tx_num_xmit;
+		pf <<= RC_PID_ARITH_SHIFT;
+	}
+
+	spinfo->tx_num_xmit = 0;
+	spinfo->tx_num_failed = 0;
+
+	/* If we just switched rate, update the rate behaviour info. */
+	if (pinfo->oldrate != sta->txrate) {
+
+		i = rinfo[pinfo->oldrate].rev_index;
+		j = rinfo[sta->txrate].rev_index;
+
+		tmp = (pf - spinfo->last_pf);
+		tmp = RC_PID_DO_ARITH_RIGHT_SHIFT(tmp, RC_PID_ARITH_SHIFT);
+
+		rinfo[j].diff = rinfo[i].diff + tmp;
+		pinfo->oldrate = sta->txrate;
+	}
+	rate_control_pid_normalize(rinfo, mode->num_rates);
+
+	/* Compute the proportional, integral and derivative errors. */
+	err_prop = RC_PID_TARGET_PF - pf;
+
+	err_avg = spinfo->err_avg_sc >> RC_PID_SMOOTHING_SHIFT;
+	spinfo->err_avg_sc = spinfo->err_avg_sc - err_avg + err_prop;
+	err_int = spinfo->err_avg_sc >> RC_PID_SMOOTHING_SHIFT;
+
+	err_der = pf - spinfo->last_pf
+		  * (1 + RC_PID_SHARPENING_FACTOR * spinfo->sharp_cnt);
+	spinfo->last_pf = pf;
+	if (spinfo->sharp_cnt)
+			spinfo->sharp_cnt--;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUGFS
+	rate_control_pid_event_pf_sample(&spinfo->events, pf, err_prop, err_int,
+					 err_der);
+#endif
+
+	/* Compute the controller output. */
+	adj = (err_prop * pinfo->coeff_p + err_int * pinfo->coeff_i
+	      + err_der * pinfo->coeff_d);
+	adj = RC_PID_DO_ARITH_RIGHT_SHIFT(adj, 2 * RC_PID_ARITH_SHIFT);
+
+	/* Change rate. */
+	if (adj)
+		rate_control_pid_adjust_rate(local, sta, adj, rinfo);
+}
+
+static void rate_control_pid_tx_status(void *priv, struct net_device *dev,
+				       struct sk_buff *skb,
+				       struct ieee80211_tx_status *status)
+{
+	struct ieee80211_local *local = wdev_priv(dev->ieee80211_ptr);
+	struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *) skb->data;
+	struct rc_pid_info *pinfo = priv;
+	struct sta_info *sta;
+	struct rc_pid_sta_info *spinfo;
+
+	sta = sta_info_get(local, hdr->addr1);
+
+	if (!sta)
+		return;
+
+	/* Ignore all frames that were sent with a different rate than the rate
+	 * we currently advise mac80211 to use. */
+	if (status->control.rate != &local->oper_hw_mode->rates[sta->txrate])
+		return;
+
+	spinfo = sta->rate_ctrl_priv;
+	spinfo->tx_num_xmit++;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUGFS
+	rate_control_pid_event_tx_status(&spinfo->events, status);
+#endif
+
+	/* We count frames that totally failed to be transmitted as two bad
+	 * frames, those that made it out but had some retries as one good and
+	 * one bad frame. */
+	if (status->excessive_retries) {
+		spinfo->tx_num_failed += 2;
+		spinfo->tx_num_xmit++;
+	} else if (status->retry_count) {
+		spinfo->tx_num_failed++;
+		spinfo->tx_num_xmit++;
+	}
+
+	if (status->excessive_retries) {
+		sta->tx_retry_failed++;
+		sta->tx_num_consecutive_failures++;
+		sta->tx_num_mpdu_fail++;
+	} else {
+		sta->last_ack_rssi[0] = sta->last_ack_rssi[1];
+		sta->last_ack_rssi[1] = sta->last_ack_rssi[2];
+		sta->last_ack_rssi[2] = status->ack_signal;
+		sta->tx_num_consecutive_failures = 0;
+		sta->tx_num_mpdu_ok++;
+	}
+	sta->tx_retry_count += status->retry_count;
+	sta->tx_num_mpdu_fail += status->retry_count;
+
+	/* Update PID controller state. */
+	if (time_after(jiffies, spinfo->last_sample + RC_PID_INTERVAL))
+		rate_control_pid_sample(pinfo, local, sta);
+
+	sta_info_put(sta);
+}
+
+static void rate_control_pid_get_rate(void *priv, struct net_device *dev,
+				      struct ieee80211_hw_mode *mode,
+				      struct sk_buff *skb,
+				      struct rate_selection *sel)
+{
+	struct ieee80211_local *local = wdev_priv(dev->ieee80211_ptr);
+	struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *) skb->data;
+	struct sta_info *sta;
+	int rateidx;
+
+	sta = sta_info_get(local, hdr->addr1);
+
+	if (!sta) {
+		sel->rate = rate_lowest(local, mode, NULL);
+		sta_info_put(sta);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	rateidx = sta->txrate;
+
+	if (rateidx >= mode->num_rates)
+		rateidx = mode->num_rates - 1;
+
+	sta_info_put(sta);
+
+	sel->rate = &mode->rates[rateidx];
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUGFS
+	rate_control_pid_event_tx_rate(
+		&((struct rc_pid_sta_info *) sta->rate_ctrl_priv)->events,
+		rateidx, mode->rates[rateidx].rate);
+#endif
+}
+
+static void rate_control_pid_rate_init(void *priv, void *priv_sta,
+					  struct ieee80211_local *local,
+					  struct sta_info *sta)
+{
+	/* TODO: This routine should consider using RSSI from previous packets
+	 * as we need to have IEEE 802.1X auth succeed immediately after assoc..
+	 * Until that method is implemented, we will use the lowest supported
+	 * rate as a workaround. */
+	sta->txrate = rate_lowest_index(local, local->oper_hw_mode, sta);
+}
+
+static void *rate_control_pid_alloc(struct ieee80211_local *local)
+{
+	struct rc_pid_info *pinfo;
+	struct rc_pid_rateinfo *rinfo;
+	struct ieee80211_hw_mode *mode;
+	int i, j, tmp;
+	bool s;
+
+	pinfo = kmalloc(sizeof(*pinfo), GFP_ATOMIC);
+	if (!pinfo)
+		return NULL;
+
+	/* We can safely assume that oper_hw_mode won't change unless we get
+	 * reinitialized. */
+	mode = local->oper_hw_mode;
+	rinfo = kmalloc(sizeof(*rinfo) * mode->num_rates, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	if (!rinfo) {
+		kfree(pinfo);
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	/* Sort the rates. This is optimized for the most common case (i.e.
+	 * almost-sorted CCK+OFDM rates). Kind of bubble-sort with reversed
+	 * mapping too. */
+	for (i = 0; i < mode->num_rates; i++) {
+		rinfo[i].index = i;
+		rinfo[i].rev_index = i;
+		if (RC_PID_FAST_START)
+			rinfo[i].diff = 0;
+		else
+			rinfo[i].diff = i * RC_PID_NORM_OFFSET;
+	}
+	for (i = 1; i < mode->num_rates; i++) {
+		s = 0;
+		for (j = 0; j < mode->num_rates - i; j++)
+			if (unlikely(mode->rates[rinfo[j].index].rate >
+				     mode->rates[rinfo[j + 1].index].rate)) {
+				tmp = rinfo[j].index;
+				rinfo[j].index = rinfo[j + 1].index;
+				rinfo[j + 1].index = tmp;
+				rinfo[rinfo[j].index].rev_index = j;
+				rinfo[rinfo[j + 1].index].rev_index = j + 1;
+				s = 1;
+			}
+		if (!s)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	pinfo->target = RC_PID_TARGET_PF;
+	pinfo->coeff_p = RC_PID_COEFF_P;
+	pinfo->coeff_i = RC_PID_COEFF_I;
+	pinfo->coeff_d = RC_PID_COEFF_D;
+	pinfo->rinfo = rinfo;
+	pinfo->oldrate = 0;
+
+	return pinfo;
+}
+
+static void rate_control_pid_free(void *priv)
+{
+	struct rc_pid_info *pinfo = priv;
+	kfree(pinfo->rinfo);
+	kfree(pinfo);
+}
+
+static void rate_control_pid_clear(void *priv)
+{
+}
+
+static void *rate_control_pid_alloc_sta(void *priv, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+	struct rc_pid_sta_info *spinfo;
+
+	spinfo = kzalloc(sizeof(*spinfo), gfp);
+	if (spinfo == NULL)
+		return NULL;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUGFS
+	spin_lock_init(&spinfo->events.lock);
+	init_waitqueue_head(&spinfo->events.waitqueue);
+#endif
+
+	return spinfo;
+}
+
+static void rate_control_pid_free_sta(void *priv, void *priv_sta)
+{
+	struct rc_pid_sta_info *spinfo = priv_sta;
+	kfree(spinfo);
+}
+
+struct rate_control_ops mac80211_rcpid = {
+	.name = "pid",
+	.tx_status = rate_control_pid_tx_status,
+	.get_rate = rate_control_pid_get_rate,
+	.rate_init = rate_control_pid_rate_init,
+	.clear = rate_control_pid_clear,
+	.alloc = rate_control_pid_alloc,
+	.free = rate_control_pid_free,
+	.alloc_sta = rate_control_pid_alloc_sta,
+	.free_sta = rate_control_pid_free_sta,
+#ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUGFS
+	.add_sta_debugfs = rate_control_pid_add_sta_debugfs,
+	.remove_sta_debugfs = rate_control_pid_remove_sta_debugfs,
+#endif
+};