Pass the rate selection table to mac80211 from minstrel_update_stats.
Only rates for sample attempts are set in info->control.rates, with deferred
sampling, only the second slot gets changed.
Signed-off-by: NFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

Use powers of two in ewma of minstrel.
This changes :
- EWMA_DIV   from 100 to 2^7
- EWMA_LEVEL from 75 (/EWMA_DIV=100) to 2^6 + 2^5 (/EWMA_DIV=128)

Note that this changes EWMA_DIV - EWMA_LEVEL from 25 to 2^5 and keeps
EWMA_LEVEL / EWMA_DIV == 0.75.
Signed-off-by: NKarl Beldan <karl.beldan@rivierawaves.com>
Acked-by: NFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

This patch improves the way minstrel sorts rates according to throughput
and success probability. 3 FOR-loops across the entire rate set in function
minstrel_update_stats() which where used to determine the fastest, second
fastest and most robust rate are reduced to 1 FOR-loop.

The sorted list of rates according throughput is extended to the best four
rates as we need them in upcoming joint rate and power control. The sorting
is done via the new function minstrel_sort_best_tp_rates().

The most robust rate selection is aligned with minstrel_ht's approach.
Once any success probability is above 95% the one with the highest
throughput is chosen as most robust rate. If success probabilities of all
rates are below 95%, the rate with the highest succ. prob. is elected as
most robust one
Acked-by: NFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

While minstrel bootstraps and fills the success probabilities of each
rate the lowest rate has typically a very high success probability
(often 100% in our tests).
Its statistics are never updated but considered to setup the mrr chain.
In our tests we see that especially the 3rd mrr stage (which is that
rate providing highest success probability) is filled with the lowest rate
because its initial high sucess probability is never updated. By design
the 4th mrr stage is filled with the lowest rate so often 3rd and 4th
mrr stage are equal.

This patch follows minstrels general approach of assuming as little
as possible about rate dependencies. Consequently we include the
lowest rate into the random sampling table to get balanced up-to-date
statistics of all rates and therefore balanced decisions.
Acked-by: NFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

Minstrel's decision which rate should be directly sampled within the
1st mrr stage is limited to such rates faster than the current max
throughput rate. All rates below the current max. throughput rate
are indirectly sampled via the 2nd mrr stage.
This approach leads to deprecated per rate statistics and therfore
a deprecated mrr chain setup.

This patch uses the sampling approach from minstrel_ht. A counter is
added to sum all indirect sample attempts per rate. After 20 indirect
sampling attempts the rate is directly sampled within the 1st mrr stage.
Therefore more up-to-date statistics for all rates are maintained and
used to setup the mrr chain.
Acked-by: NFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

Add documentation and more verbose variable names to minstrel's
multi-rate-retry setup within function minstrel_get_rate() to
increase the readability of the algorithm.
Acked-by: NFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

Both minstrel versions use individual ways to scale up integer values
to perform calculations. Merge minstrel_ht's scaling macros into
minstrels header file and use them in both minstrel versions.
Acked-by: NFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

Both rate control algorithms (minstrel and minstrel_ht) calculate
averages based on EWMA. Shift function minstrel_ewma() into
rc80211_minstrel.h and make use of it in both minstrel version.
Also shift the default EWMA level (75%) definition to the header file
and clean up variable usage.
Acked-by: NFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

When MCS rates start to get bad in 2.4 GHz because of long range or
strong interference, CCK rates can be a lot more robust.

This patch adds a pseudo MCS group containing CCK rates (long preamble
in the lower 4 slots, short preamble in the upper slots).
Signed-off-by: NFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
[make minstrel_ht_get_stats static]
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

Found several threads about fixed rate mode in minstrel_ht for test
environments, but no patches for it.

This patch provides such a mode through debugfs.
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This patch makes it possible to reuse the minstrel rate control ops
from another rate control module. This is useful in preparing for the
new 802.11n implementation of minstrel, which will reuse the old code
for legacy stations.
Signed-off-by: NFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This patch cleans up the debugfs read function for the statistics by
using simple_read_from_buffer instead of its own semi-broken hack.
Also removes a useless member of the minstrel debugfs info struct.
Signed-off-by: NFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

I noticed that the throughput field of the minstrel_rate struct is never used,
so remove it.
Signed-off-by: NArnd Hannemann <hannemann@nets.rwth-aachen.de>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This patch enhances minstrel's performance for non-MRR setups,
by preventing it from sampling slower rates with >95% success
probability and by putting at least 1 non-sample frame between
several sample frames.
Signed-off-by: NFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Signed-off-by: NFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>