mac80211: Dynamically set CoDel parameters per station

CoDel can be too aggressive if a station sends at a very low rate,
leading reduced throughput. This gets worse the more stations are
present, as each station gets more bursty the longer the round-robin
scheduling between stations takes.

This adds dynamic adjustment of CoDel parameters per station. It uses
the rate selection information to estimate throughput and sets more
lenient CoDel parameters if the estimated throughput is below a
threshold (modified by the number of active stations).

A new callback is added that drivers can use to notify mac80211 about
changes in expected throughput, so the same adjustment can be made for
cards that implement rate control in firmware. Drivers that don't use
this will just get the default parameters.

Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
[remove currently unnecessary EXPORT_SYMBOL, fix kernel-doc, remove
inline annotation]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This commit is contained in:
Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2017-04-06 11:38:26 +02:00
committed by Johannes Berg
parent ca8fe25069
commit 484a54c2e5
6 changed files with 73 additions and 2 deletions

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@@ -152,6 +152,12 @@ static ssize_t sta_aqm_read(struct file *file, char __user *userbuf,
spin_lock_bh(&local->fq.lock);
rcu_read_lock();
p += scnprintf(p,
bufsz+buf-p,
"target %uus interval %uus ecn %s\n",
codel_time_to_us(sta->cparams.target),
codel_time_to_us(sta->cparams.interval),
sta->cparams.ecn ? "yes" : "no");
p += scnprintf(p,
bufsz+buf-p,
"tid ac backlog-bytes backlog-packets new-flows drops marks overlimit collisions tx-bytes tx-packets\n");