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authorFelix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>2019-08-20 11:54:47 +0200
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2019-08-21 11:09:20 +0200
commitf793c7eedd94fa41e8b969b18c4907335065a376 (patch)
treef0225c1acf4d310156a2a1d6f5fd2d8ad5d67c43 /net/mac80211
parent56dd918ff06e3ee24d8067e93ed12b2a39e71394 (diff)
downloadlinux-f793c7eedd94fa41e8b969b18c4907335065a376.tar.bz2
mac80211: minstrel_ht: reduce unnecessary rate probing attempts
On hardware with static fallback tables (e.g. mt76x2), rate probing attempts can be very expensive. On such devices, avoid sampling rates slower than the per-group max throughput rate, based on the assumption that the fallback table will take care of probing lower rates within that group if the higher rates fail. To further reduce unnecessary probing attempts, skip duplicate attempts on rates slower than the max throughput rate. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190820095449.45255-2-nbd@nbd.name Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c15
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c
index ba230b037257..ad5da9a71da0 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c
@@ -1059,6 +1059,21 @@ minstrel_get_sample_rate(struct minstrel_priv *mp, struct minstrel_ht_sta *mi)
minstrel_get_duration(mi->max_prob_rate) * 3 < sample_dur)
return -1;
+
+ /*
+ * For devices with no configurable multi-rate retry, skip sampling
+ * below the per-group max throughput rate, and only use one sampling
+ * attempt per rate
+ */
+ if (mp->hw->max_rates == 1 &&
+ (minstrel_get_duration(mg->max_group_tp_rate[0]) < sample_dur ||
+ mrs->attempts))
+ return -1;
+
+ /* Skip already sampled slow rates */
+ if (sample_dur >= minstrel_get_duration(tp_rate1) && mrs->attempts)
+ return -1;
+
/*
* Make sure that lower rates get sampled only occasionally,
* if the link is working perfectly.