This adds a patch that introduces airtime fairness scheduling to ath9k, which can significantly improve network efficiency in mixed-rate environments. Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>master
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From: =?UTF-8?q?Toke=20H=C3=B8iland-J=C3=B8rgensen?= <toke@toke.dk>
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Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 13:27:37 +0200
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Subject: [PATCH] ath9k: Introduce airtime fairness scheduling between stations
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This reworks the ath9k driver to schedule transmissions to connected
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stations in a way that enforces airtime fairness between them. It
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accomplishes this by measuring the time spent transmitting to or
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receiving from a station at TX and RX completion, and accounting this to
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a per-station, per-QoS level airtime deficit. Then, an FQ-CoDel based
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deficit scheduler is employed at packet dequeue time, to control which
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station gets the next transmission opportunity.
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Airtime fairness can significantly improve the efficiency of the network
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when station rates vary. The following throughput values are from a
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simple three-station test scenario, where two stations operate at the
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highest HT20 rate, and one station at the lowest, and the scheduler is
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employed at the access point:
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Before / After
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Fast station 1: 19.17 / 25.09 Mbps
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Fast station 2: 19.83 / 25.21 Mbps
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Slow station: 2.58 / 1.77 Mbps
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Total: 41.58 / 52.07 Mbps
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The benefit of airtime fairness goes up the more stations are present.
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In a 30-station test with one station artificially limited to 1 Mbps,
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we have seen aggregate throughput go from 2.14 to 17.76 Mbps.
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Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
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Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
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From: =?UTF-8?q?Toke=20H=C3=B8iland-J=C3=B8rgensen?= <toke@toke.dk>
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Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 13:27:38 +0200
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Subject: [PATCH] ath9k: Turn ath_txq_lock/unlock() into static inlines.
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These are one-line functions that just call spin_lock/unlock_bh(); turn
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them into static inlines to avoid the function call overhead.
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Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
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Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
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---
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--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.h
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+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.h
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@@ -558,6 +558,15 @@ static inline void ath_chanctx_check_act
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#endif /* CPTCFG_ATH9K_CHANNEL_CONTEXT */
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+static inline void ath_txq_lock(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_txq *txq)
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+{
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+ spin_lock_bh(&txq->axq_lock);
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+}
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+static inline void ath_txq_unlock(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_txq *txq)
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+{
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+ spin_unlock_bh(&txq->axq_lock);
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+}
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+
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void ath_startrecv(struct ath_softc *sc);
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bool ath_stoprecv(struct ath_softc *sc);
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u32 ath_calcrxfilter(struct ath_softc *sc);
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@@ -565,8 +574,6 @@ int ath_rx_init(struct ath_softc *sc, in
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void ath_rx_cleanup(struct ath_softc *sc);
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int ath_rx_tasklet(struct ath_softc *sc, int flush, bool hp);
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struct ath_txq *ath_txq_setup(struct ath_softc *sc, int qtype, int subtype);
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-void ath_txq_lock(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_txq *txq);
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-void ath_txq_unlock(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_txq *txq);
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void ath_txq_unlock_complete(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_txq *txq);
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void ath_tx_cleanupq(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_txq *txq);
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bool ath_drain_all_txq(struct ath_softc *sc);
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--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
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+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
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@@ -98,18 +98,6 @@ static void ath_tx_status(struct ieee802
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dev_kfree_skb(skb);
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}
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-void ath_txq_lock(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_txq *txq)
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- __acquires(&txq->axq_lock)
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-{
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- spin_lock_bh(&txq->axq_lock);
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-}
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-
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-void ath_txq_unlock(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_txq *txq)
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- __releases(&txq->axq_lock)
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-{
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- spin_unlock_bh(&txq->axq_lock);
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-}
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-
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void ath_txq_unlock_complete(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_txq *txq)
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__releases(&txq->axq_lock)
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