Currently, dynack was only tested upstream using AP/STA mode.
Testing it on IBSS, showed that late-ack detection was broken.
This is caused due to dynack using Association Request/Response
frames for late-ack detection, which IBSS does not use.
Also allowing Authentication frames here solves this.
A second issue also got fixed, which was also seen AP/STA mode:
When a station was added, the estimated value would be exponentially averaged
using 0 as a starting point.
This means that on larger distances, the ack timeout was still not high
enough before synchronizing would run out of late-ack's for estimation.
Fix this by using the initial estimated value as a baseline
and only start averaging in the following estimation rounds.
Test setup:
- 2x identical devices: RB912UAG-5HPnD + 19dB sector
- IBSS
- 2x2 802.11an (ar9340), HT20, long GI
- RSSI's -70 / -71
- Real distance: 23910 meter
Results (60s iperf runs):
Fixed coverage class 54 (up to 24300m):
* 21.5 Mbits/sec
Dynack:
* 28.9 Mbits/sec
Signed-off-by: Koen Vandeputte <koen.vandeputte@ncentric.com>
Software crypto wasn't working for management frames because the flag
indicating management frame crypto was missing
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
The __change_mtu() function is only compiled when
CPTCFG_IPW2200_PROMISCUOUS is set, more it to the general area.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
This is an official release with some minor changes compared to the
unofficial 4.19-rc4-1 we used before.
* added bcma and ssb again, which is removed in OpenWrt
* fix to build with kernel 4.19
* other minor fixes not relevant for Openwrt.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
These patches were added after the new matches structure for the
mac80211 package was created. All the deleted patches are already
integrated in kernel 4.19-rc4.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
This updates mac80211 to backports based on kernel 4.19-rc4.
I plan to integrate all the patches which are in this tar into upstream
backports soon.
I used the backports generated from this code:
https://github.com/hauke/backports/commits/wip2
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
According to Stanislaw Gruszka the patch
600-23-rt2x00-rt2800mmio-add-a-workaround-for-spurious-TX_F.patch
should be dropped.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Add RXIQ calibration found in mtk driver. With old openwrt builds this gets us ~8Mbps more of RX bandwidth (test with iPA/eLNA layout).
Please try if this makes any difference among various board/RF layouts.
Signed-off-by: Tomislav Požega <pozega.tomislav@gmail.com>
Add RXDCOC calibration code from mtk driver. Please try if this makes any difference among various board/RF layouts.
Signed-off-by: Tomislav Požega <pozega.tomislav@gmail.com>
Write registers required for reducing power consumption like the vendor
driver does when ADJUST_POWER_CONSUMPTION_SUPPORT is set.
This helps devices to sync at better TX/RX rates and improves overall
performance.
Signed-off-by: Tomislav Požega <pozega.tomislav@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
[daniel@makrotopia.org: edited commit message]
Registering a GPIO chip with the ath9k device as parent prevents unload,
because the gpiochip core increases the module use count.
Unfortunately, the only way to avoid this at the moment seems to be to
register the GPIO chip without a parent device
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Currently it's close to impossible to tell what part of mac80211 setup
went wrong. Errors logged into system log look like this:
radio0 (6155): command failed: No error information (-524)
radio0 (6155): command failed: Not supported (-95)
radio0 (6155): command failed: I/O error (-5)
radio0 (6155): command failed: Too many open files in system (-23)
With this commit change it's getting clear:
command failed: No error information (-524)
Failed command: iw dev wlan0 del
command failed: Not supported (-95)
Failed command: iw phy phy0 set antenna_gain 0
command failed: I/O error (-5)
Failed command: iw phy phy0 set distance 0
command failed: Too many open files in system (-23)
Failed command: iw phy phy0 interface add wlan0 type __ap
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Tri-band devices (1x 2.4GHz + 2x 5GHz) often incorporate special filters in
the RX and TX path. These filtered channel can in theory still be used by
the hardware but the signal strength is reduced so much that it makes no
sense.
There is already a DT property to limit the available channels but ath10k
has to manually call this functionality to limit the currrently set wiphy
channels further.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@openmesh.com>
Monitor mode isn't supported yet with brcmfmac, it's just an early work.
This also prepares brcmfmac to work stable with new firmwares which use
updated struct for passing STA info.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
The most important is probably regression fix in handling platform
NVRAM. That bug stopped hardware from being properly calibrated breaking
e.g. 5 GHz for Netgear R8000.
Other than that it triggers memory dumps when experiencing firmware
problems which is important for debugging purposes.
Fixes: 7e8eb7f309 ("mac80211: backport brcmfmac firmware & clm_blob loading rework")
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
This commit refreshes and updates the VHT160 ath10k support fix patches
and adds a number of backports from ath-next:
* 8ed05ed06fca ath10k: handle tdls peer events
* 229329ff345f ath10k: wmi: modify svc bitmap parsing for wcn3990
* 14d65775687c ath10k: advertise TDLS wider bandwidth support for 5GHz
* bc64d05220f3 ath10k: debugfs support to get final TPC stats for 10.4 variants
* 8b2d93dd2261 ath10k: Fix kernel panic while using worker (ath10k_sta_rc_update_wk)
* 4b190675ad06 ath10k: fix kernel panic while reading tpc_stats
* be8cce96f14d ath10k: add support to configure channel dwell time
* f40105e67478 ath: add support to get the detected radar specifications
* 6f6eb1bcbeff ath10k: DFS Host Confirmation
* 260e629bbf44 ath10k: fix memory leak of tpc_stats
* 38441fb6fcbb ath10k: support use of channel 173
* 2e9bcd0d7324 ath10k: fix spectral scan for QCA9984 and QCA9888 chipsets
Signed-off-by: Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
[move backported patches in the 3xx number space, bring in upstream order,
replace incomplete patch files with git format-patch ones, rewrite commit
message, fix subject]
Signed-off-by: Jo-Philipp Wich <jo@mein.io>
Enables support for Dynack feature.
When a remote station is far away, we need to compensate for the distance
by allowing more time for an ACK to arrive back before issueing a retransmission.
Currently, it needs to be set fixed to indicate the maximum distance the remote
station will ever be.
While this mostly works for static antennae, it introduces 2 issues:
- If the actual distance is less, speed is reduced due to a lot of wates wait-time
- If the distance becomes greater, retries start to occur and comms can get lost.
Allowing to set it dynamically using dynack ensures the best possible tradeoff
between speed vs distance.
This feature is currently only supported in ath9k.
it is also disabled by default.
Enabling it can be done in 2 ways:
- issue cmd: iw phy0 set distance auto
- sending the NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_DYN_ACK flag to mac80211 driver using netlink
Disabling it can be done by providing a valid fixed value.
To give an idea of a practical example:
In my usecase, we have mesh wifi device installed on ships/platforms.
Currently, the coverage class is set at 12000m fixed.
When a vessel moved closer (ex. 1500m), the measured link capacity was a lot
lower compared to setting the coverage class fixed to 1500m
Dynack completely solved this, nearly providing double the bandwidth at closer range
compared to the fixed setting of 12000m being used.
Also when a vessel sailed to a distance greater than the fixed setting,
communication was lost as the ACK's never arrived within the max allowed timeframe.
Actual distance: 6010m
iperf 60s run avg
Fixed 12150m: 31 Mbit/s
Dynack: 58 Mbit/s
Fixed 6300m: 51 Mbit/s
Dynack: 59 Mbit/s
Fixed 3000m: 13 Mbit/s (lots of retries)
Dynack: 58 Mbit/s
Actual distance: 1504m
iperf 60s run avg
Fixed 12150m: 31 Mbit/s
Dynack: 86 Mbit/s
Fixed 6300m: 55 Mbit/s
Dynack: 87 Mbit/s
Fixed 3000m: 67 Mbit/s
Dynack: 87 Mbit/s
Signed-off-by: Koen Vandeputte <koen.vandeputte@ncentric.com>
Most of the implementations behind cfg80211_get_station will not initialize
sinfo to zero before manipulating it. For example, the member "filled",
which indicates the filled in parts of this struct, is often only modified
by enabling certain bits in the bitfield while keeping the remaining bits
in their original state. A caller without a preinitialized sinfo.filled can
then no longer decide which parts of sinfo were filled in by
cfg80211_get_station (or actually the underlying implementations).
cfg80211_get_station must therefore take care that sinfo is initialized to
zero. Otherwise, the caller may tries to read information which was not
filled in and which must therefore also be considered uninitialized. In
batadv_v_elp_get_throughput's case, an invalid "random" expected throughput
may be stored for this neighbor and thus the B.A.T.M.A.N V algorithm may
switch to non-optimal neighbors for certain destinations.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@openmesh.com>
After a very enlightening but unfortunately far too short exchange with Jes
we mutually agreed to drop the patches. They are unfortunately not ready
yet.
Acked-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Signed-off-by: John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
