Re: [PATCH v2] cfg80211/nl80211: add DFS offload flag
Hi, Sorry I haven't answered/applied this. I will eventually, you've convinced me with the answer. > We are about to send v3 for this feature. Could you please clarify > your preferences in terms of patchwork procedure ? Should we mark > previous patch versions as superseded for nl80211/cfg80211 patches ? If you do that it saves me the "work", but it doesn't bother me to do it myself. johannes
Re: [PATCH v2] cfg80211/nl80211: add DFS offload flag
Hello Johannes, > > Add wiphy EXT_FEATURE flag to indicate that HW or driver does > > all DFS actions by itself. > > User-space functionality already implemented in hostapd using > > vendor-specific (QCA) OUI to advertise DFS offload support. > > Need to introduce generic flag to inform about DFS offload support. > > For deivces with DFS_OFFLOAD flag set user-space will no longer > > need to issue CAC or do any actions in response to > > "radar detected" events. HW will do everything by itself and send > > events to user-space to indicate that CAC was started/finished, etc. > > > > + * @NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_DFS_OFFLOAD: HW/driver will offload DFS actions. > > + * Device or driver will do all DFS-related actions by itself, > > + * informing user-space about CAC progress, radar detection event, > > + * channel change triggered by radar detection event. > > + * No need to start CAC from user-space, no need to react to > > + * "radar detected" event. > > The "channel change" part bothers me a bit - isn't normally hostapd > very much in control of the channel? How does it even get notified of > the new channel? How can you configure the parameters like how many > beacons to include the (E)CSA IE for, and whether to add ECSA or not > etc? We are about to send v3 for this feature. Could you please clarify your preferences in terms of patchwork procedure ? Should we mark previous patch versions as superseded for nl80211/cfg80211 patches ? Regards, Sergey
Re: [PATCH v2] cfg80211/nl80211: add DFS offload flag
23.02.2018 14:32, Johannes Berg wrote: On Thu, 2018-02-22 at 12:15 +0300, Sergey Matyukevich wrote: + * @NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_DFS_OFFLOAD: HW/driver will offload DFS actions. + * Device or driver will do all DFS-related actions by itself, + * informing user-space about CAC progress, radar detection event, + * channel change triggered by radar detection event. + * No need to start CAC from user-space, no need to react to + * "radar detected" event. The "channel change" part bothers me a bit - isn't normally hostapd very much in control of the channel? How does it even get notified of the new channel? How can you configure the parameters like how many beacons to include the (E)CSA IE for, and whether to add ECSA or not etc? johannes hostapd will be notified with NL80211_CMD_CH_SWITCH_NOTIFY event and it already has a handler for this event and looks like it works as expected. In case of radar detection, userspace (hostapd) should receive two events (with DFS offload enabled): 1. RADAR_DETECT - and in case of DFS_OFFLOAD flag turned on don't do any CSA 2. CH_SWITCH_NOTIFY - at the moment when HW will switch channel as a reaction to radar event Currently, all CSA will be sent with default parameters. If it's crucial to tune e.g. TBTT count, then let's add it with a separate commit later, when DFS offload will be implemented in the whole SW stack (driver/kernel/userspace). DFS offload should be quite useful and should fix some issues in a repeater configuration. There are a number of issues which are hard to fix without DFS offload feature: e.g. if repeater has detected a radar and sent radar report frame to master AP, master AP will reply with CSA, but hostapd will try to change channel to different channel. Regards, Dmitry
Re: [PATCH v2] cfg80211/nl80211: add DFS offload flag
On Thu, 2018-02-22 at 12:15 +0300, Sergey Matyukevich wrote: > From: Dmitry Lebed > > Add wiphy EXT_FEATURE flag to indicate that HW or driver does > all DFS actions by itself. > User-space functionality already implemented in hostapd using > vendor-specific (QCA) OUI to advertise DFS offload support. > Need to introduce generic flag to inform about DFS offload support. > For deivces with DFS_OFFLOAD flag set user-space will no longer > need to issue CAC or do any actions in response to > "radar detected" events. HW will do everything by itself and send > events to user-space to indicate that CAC was started/finished, etc. > > + * @NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_DFS_OFFLOAD: HW/driver will offload DFS actions. > + * Device or driver will do all DFS-related actions by itself, > + * informing user-space about CAC progress, radar detection event, > + * channel change triggered by radar detection event. > + * No need to start CAC from user-space, no need to react to > + * "radar detected" event. The "channel change" part bothers me a bit - isn't normally hostapd very much in control of the channel? How does it even get notified of the new channel? How can you configure the parameters like how many beacons to include the (E)CSA IE for, and whether to add ECSA or not etc? johannes
