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authorBalaji Pothunoori <bpothuno@codeaurora.org>2018-04-16 20:18:40 +0530
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2018-05-07 21:37:20 +0200
commit81d5439da84419ee35bea54309a9f2c3871b6605 (patch)
tree09270708c41f65d810733b34679bc6b446c52033 /net/wireless
parentaced43ce780dc5e683b3de00ce9fb3db7d28e1d3 (diff)
downloadlinux-81d5439da84419ee35bea54309a9f2c3871b6605.tar.bz2
cfg80211: average ack rssi support for data frames
Average ack rssi will be given to userspace via NL80211 interface if firmware is capable. Userspace tool ‘iw’ can process this information and give the output as one of the fields in ‘iw dev wlanX station dump’. Example output : localhost ~ #iw dev wlan-5000mhz station dump Station 34:f3:9a:aa:3b:29 (on wlan-5000mhz) inactive time: 5370 ms rx bytes: 85321 rx packets: 576 tx bytes: 14225 tx packets: 71 tx retries: 0 tx failed: 2 beacon loss: 0 rx drop misc: 0 signal: -54 dBm signal avg: -53 dBm tx bitrate: 866.7 MBit/s VHT-MCS 9 80MHz short GI VHT-NSS 2 rx bitrate: 866.7 MBit/s VHT-MCS 9 80MHz short GI VHT-NSS 2 avg ack signal: -56 dBm authorized: yes authenticated: yes associated: yes preamble: short WMM/WME: yes MFP: no TDLS peer: no DTIM period: 2 beacon interval:100 short preamble: yes short slot time:yes connected time: 203 seconds Main use case is to measure the signal strength of a connected station to AP. Data packet transmit rates and bandwidth used by station can vary a lot even if the station is at fixed location, especially if the rates used are multi stream(2stream, 3stream) rates with different bandwidth(20/40/80 Mhz). These multi stream rates are sensitive and station can use different transmit power for each of the rate and bandwidth combinations. RSSI measured from these RX packets on AP will be not stable and can vary a lot with in a short time. Whereas 802.11 ack frames from station are sent relatively at a constant rate (6/12/24 Mbps) with constant bandwidth(20 Mhz). So average rssi of the ack packets is good and more accurate. Signed-off-by: Balaji Pothunoori <bpothuno@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/nl80211.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 016d0a1de576..6b942a68d1c8 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -4541,6 +4541,9 @@ static int nl80211_send_station(struct sk_buff *msg, u32 cmd, u32 portid,
PUT_SINFO_U64(BEACON_RX, rx_beacon);
PUT_SINFO(BEACON_SIGNAL_AVG, rx_beacon_signal_avg, u8);
PUT_SINFO(ACK_SIGNAL, ack_signal, u8);
+ if (wiphy_ext_feature_isset(&rdev->wiphy,
+ NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_DATA_ACK_SIGNAL_SUPPORT))
+ PUT_SINFO(DATA_ACK_SIGNAL_AVG, avg_ack_signal, s8);
#undef PUT_SINFO
#undef PUT_SINFO_U64