Return-path: Received: from mail-ee0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:57473 "EHLO mail-ee0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752043Ab2KQTMn (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:12:43 -0500 Received: by mail-ee0-f46.google.com with SMTP id e53so451576eek.19 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:12:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:12:44 +0100 From: Bernhard Urban To: Felix Fietkau Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org, c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com, Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com, linville@tuxdriver.com, markus@indoo.rs, m.sujith@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath9k_htc: update RSSI values only when the device is associated Message-ID: <20121117191244.GA18782@phenom> (sfid-20121117_201258_576010_E6EC5A63) References: <1352480966-17462-1-git-send-email-lewurm@gmail.com> <509E1B47.3050107@openwrt.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <509E1B47.3050107@openwrt.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Thanks for the reviews! On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Sujith wrote: > Looks good, but a cleaner fix would be to update the RSSI only for > beacons that are destined for the station. You mean like in recv.c? There's a `is_mybeacon' field, which is computed in `ath_rx_tasklet(...)' and used in `ath9k_process_rssi(...)'. Adding this check to the if-guard changes nothing at the result, so I think it's fine if you consider it as cleaner. See attached patch. Btw, could you please elaborate what `is_mybeacon' represents? On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Felix Fietkau wrote: > Please check how RSSI is handled in ath9k, and use that as reference. > The per-packet RSSI should not be set from some internal average, it > should contain the real RSSI value of the packet. This change disables > RSSI reporting for anything but station mode, which is not a good idea. Replacing if (priv->num_sta_assoc_vif != 0) with if (priv->ah->opmode == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) works out well (which makes sense to me). However, adding `&& priv->ah->opmode == NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC' (like in ath9k/recv.c) produces bad results like before. I don't understand the effect, as my device is always in "managed mode" according to `iw wlan0 info'. I'm right by assuming "managed mode" is the same as NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION? Also, I don't know what you mean with "some internal average". Can you please elaborate that? Thanks for your help, Bernhard >From fc14c46ce75044485229be5bb12682a8fffcf178 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernhard Urban Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:22:16 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ath9k_htc: update RSSI values only when the device is associated add an if-guard, otherwise iw(8) reports weird signal strengths. The behaviour was fine before this commit: 7c277349ecbd66e19fad3d949fa6ef6c131a3b62 This patch is therefore a partially revert of it. Tested with "TP-Link TL-WN722N" Thanks to indoo.rs http://indoo.rs/ for sponsoring Reported-by: Markus Krainz Tested-by: Markus Krainz Signed-off-by: Bernhard Urban --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc.h | 1 + drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_txrx.c | 29 +++++++++++++++---------- 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc.h index 936e920..00ebf1c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc.h +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc.h @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include #include diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_txrx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_txrx.c index 47e61d0..8b4da3d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_txrx.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_txrx.c @@ -969,6 +969,7 @@ static bool ath9k_rx_prepare(struct ath9k_htc_priv *priv, int hdrlen, padpos, padsize; int last_rssi = ATH_RSSI_DUMMY_MARKER; __le16 fc; + u8 is_mybeacon; if (skb->len < HTC_RX_FRAME_HEADER_SIZE) { ath_err(common, "Corrupted RX frame, dropping (len: %d)\n", @@ -1060,22 +1061,28 @@ static bool ath9k_rx_prepare(struct ath9k_htc_priv *priv, ath9k_process_rate(hw, rx_status, rxbuf->rxstatus.rs_rate, rxbuf->rxstatus.rs_flags); - if (rxbuf->rxstatus.rs_rssi != ATH9K_RSSI_BAD && - !rxbuf->rxstatus.rs_moreaggr) - ATH_RSSI_LPF(priv->rx.last_rssi, - rxbuf->rxstatus.rs_rssi); + is_mybeacon = ieee80211_is_beacon(fc) && + !is_zero_ether_addr(common->curbssid) && + ether_addr_equal(hdr->addr3, common->curbssid); - last_rssi = priv->rx.last_rssi; + if (is_mybeacon && priv->ah->opmode == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) { + if (rxbuf->rxstatus.rs_rssi != ATH9K_RSSI_BAD && + !rxbuf->rxstatus.rs_moreaggr) + ATH_RSSI_LPF(priv->rx.last_rssi, + rxbuf->rxstatus.rs_rssi); - if (likely(last_rssi != ATH_RSSI_DUMMY_MARKER)) - rxbuf->rxstatus.rs_rssi = ATH_EP_RND(last_rssi, - ATH_RSSI_EP_MULTIPLIER); + last_rssi = priv->rx.last_rssi; - if (rxbuf->rxstatus.rs_rssi < 0) - rxbuf->rxstatus.rs_rssi = 0; + if (likely(last_rssi != ATH_RSSI_DUMMY_MARKER)) { + s8 rssi = ATH_EP_RND(last_rssi, ATH_RSSI_EP_MULTIPLIER); + rxbuf->rxstatus.rs_rssi = rssi; + } + + if (rxbuf->rxstatus.rs_rssi < 0) + rxbuf->rxstatus.rs_rssi = 0; - if (ieee80211_is_beacon(fc)) priv->ah->stats.avgbrssi = rxbuf->rxstatus.rs_rssi; + } rx_status->mactime = be64_to_cpu(rxbuf->rxstatus.rs_tstamp); rx_status->band = hw->conf.channel->band; -- 1.7.9.5