Michael,
This version saves the long- and short-retry limits in the phy struct
and only sets excessive retries when one or the other is reached.
Larry
---
In bcm43xx-mac80211, the mechanism for decreasing the transmit rate cannot
be triggered. This may be shown by walking away from the AP with a laptop.
At some distance, communications will be lost and never recovered because
the rate decreasing mechanism of rc80211_simple needs to see excessive_retries
set in the ieee80211_tx_status struct. With this patch, the transmit rate
will decrease until communications restart.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Index: wireless-dev/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211/bcm43xx_dma.c
===================================================================
--- wireless-dev.orig/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211/bcm43xx_dma.c
+++ wireless-dev/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211/bcm43xx_dma.c
@@ -1284,6 +1284,7 @@ void bcm43xx_dma_handle_txstatus(struct
struct bcm43xx_dmaring *ring;
struct bcm43xx_dmadesc_generic *desc;
struct bcm43xx_dmadesc_meta *meta;
+ struct bcm43xx_phy *phy = &dev->phy;
int slot;
ring = parse_cookie(dev, status->cookie, &slot);
@@ -1311,6 +1312,10 @@ void bcm43xx_dma_handle_txstatus(struct
*/
if (status->acked)
meta->txstat.flags |= IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_ACK;
+ else
+ if ((status->frame_count >= phy->lrlimit) ||
+ (status->frame_count >= phy->srlimit))
+ meta->txstat.excessive_retries = 1;
meta->txstat.retry_count = status->frame_count - 1;
ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe(dev->wl->hw, meta->skb,
&(meta->txstat));
/* skb is freed by ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe() */
Index: wireless-dev/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211/bcm43xx.h
===================================================================
--- wireless-dev.orig/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211/bcm43xx.h
+++ wireless-dev/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211/bcm43xx.h
@@ -562,6 +562,8 @@ struct bcm43xx_phy {
u16 lofcal;
u16 initval;//FIXME rename?
+ u8 srlimit;
+ u8 lrlimit;
};
/* Data structures for DMA transmission, per 80211 core. */
Index: wireless-dev/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211/bcm43xx_main.c
===================================================================
--- wireless-dev.orig/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211/bcm43xx_main.c
+++ wireless-dev/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211/bcm43xx_main.c
@@ -3333,10 +3333,12 @@ static int bcm43xx_wireless_core_init(st
tmp = limit_value(modparam_short_retry, 0, 0xF);
bcm43xx_shm_write16(dev, BCM43xx_SHM_SCRATCH,
BCM43xx_SHM_SC_SRLIMIT, tmp);
+ phy->srlimit = tmp;
tmp = limit_value(modparam_long_retry, 0, 0xF);
bcm43xx_shm_write16(dev, BCM43xx_SHM_SCRATCH,
BCM43xx_SHM_SC_LRLIMIT, tmp);
+ phy->lrlimit = tmp;
bcm43xx_shm_write16(dev, BCM43xx_SHM_SHARED,
BCM43xx_SHM_SH_SFFBLIM, 3);
bcm43xx_shm_write16(dev, BCM43xx_SHM_SHARED,
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