openwrt/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/subsys/348-mac80211-minstrel_ht-reduce-the-need-to-sample-slowe.patch
Felix Fietkau 37752336bd mac80211: add significant minstrel_ht performance improvements
Completely redesign the rate sampling approach

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
2021-01-25 12:19:22 +01:00

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From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 19:24:59 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: minstrel_ht: reduce the need to sample slower
rates
In order to more gracefully be able to fall back to lower rates without too
much throughput fluctuations, initialize all untested rates below tested ones
to the maximum probabilty of higher rates.
Usually this leads to untested lower rates getting initialized with a
probability value of 100%, making them better candidates for fallback without
having to rely on random probing
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
---
--- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c
@@ -791,14 +791,11 @@ minstrel_ht_calc_rate_stats(struct minst
unsigned int cur_prob;
if (unlikely(mrs->attempts > 0)) {
- mrs->sample_skipped = 0;
cur_prob = MINSTREL_FRAC(mrs->success, mrs->attempts);
minstrel_filter_avg_add(&mrs->prob_avg,
&mrs->prob_avg_1, cur_prob);
mrs->att_hist += mrs->attempts;
mrs->succ_hist += mrs->success;
- } else {
- mrs->sample_skipped++;
}
mrs->last_success = mrs->success;
@@ -851,7 +848,6 @@ minstrel_ht_update_stats(struct minstrel
mi->ampdu_packets = 0;
}
- mi->sample_slow = 0;
mi->sample_count = 0;
memset(tmp_mcs_tp_rate, 0, sizeof(tmp_mcs_tp_rate));
@@ -883,6 +879,7 @@ minstrel_ht_update_stats(struct minstrel
/* Find best rate sets within all MCS groups*/
for (group = 0; group < ARRAY_SIZE(minstrel_mcs_groups); group++) {
u16 *tp_rate = tmp_mcs_tp_rate;
+ u16 last_prob = 0;
mg = &mi->groups[group];
if (!mi->supported[group])
@@ -897,7 +894,7 @@ minstrel_ht_update_stats(struct minstrel
if (group == MINSTREL_CCK_GROUP && ht_supported)
tp_rate = tmp_legacy_tp_rate;
- for (i = 0; i < MCS_GROUP_RATES; i++) {
+ for (i = MCS_GROUP_RATES - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
if (!(mi->supported[group] & BIT(i)))
continue;
@@ -906,6 +903,11 @@ minstrel_ht_update_stats(struct minstrel
mrs = &mg->rates[i];
mrs->retry_updated = false;
minstrel_ht_calc_rate_stats(mp, mrs);
+
+ if (mrs->att_hist)
+ last_prob = max(last_prob, mrs->prob_avg);
+ else
+ mrs->prob_avg = max(last_prob, mrs->prob_avg);
cur_prob = mrs->prob_avg;
if (minstrel_ht_get_tp_avg(mi, group, i, cur_prob) == 0)
@@ -1470,13 +1472,9 @@ minstrel_get_sample_rate(struct minstrel
if (sample_dur >= minstrel_get_duration(tp_rate2) &&
(cur_max_tp_streams - 1 <
minstrel_mcs_groups[sample_group].streams ||
- sample_dur >= minstrel_get_duration(mi->max_prob_rate))) {
- if (mrs->sample_skipped < 20)
+ sample_dur >= minstrel_get_duration(mi->max_prob_rate)))
return -1;
- if (mi->sample_slow++ > 2)
- return -1;
- }
mi->sample_tries--;
return sample_idx;
--- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.h
@@ -123,7 +123,6 @@ struct minstrel_rate_stats {
u8 retry_count;
u8 retry_count_rtscts;
- u8 sample_skipped;
bool retry_updated;
};
@@ -179,7 +178,6 @@ struct minstrel_ht_sta {
u8 sample_wait;
u8 sample_tries;
u8 sample_count;
- u8 sample_slow;
enum minstrel_sample_mode sample_mode;
u16 sample_rate;