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mac80211/minstrel_ht: improve rate selection stability

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Under load, otherwise stable rates can easily fluctuate because of
collisions. In my tests on a clean channel, the success probability of
the max throughput rate often stays somewhere between 90% and 100% under
load. This can cause some unnecessary switching to lower rates.
This patch improves stability by treating success probability values
between 90% and 100% the same.
In my tests on a 3x3 HT20 link with lots of TCP traffic, it improves the
average throughput by a few mbit/s.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Felix Fietkau 2013-03-16 17:00:25 +01:00 committed by Johannes Berg
parent d260ff12e7
commit 3e8b1eb21c
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@ -202,14 +202,23 @@ minstrel_ht_calc_tp(struct minstrel_ht_sta *mi, int group, int rate)
struct minstrel_rate_stats *mr;
unsigned int nsecs = 0;
unsigned int tp;
unsigned int prob;
mr = &mi->groups[group].rates[rate];
prob = mr->probability;
if (mr->probability < MINSTREL_FRAC(1, 10)) {
if (prob < MINSTREL_FRAC(1, 10)) {
mr->cur_tp = 0;
return;
}
/*
* For the throughput calculation, limit the probability value to 90% to
* account for collision related packet error rate fluctuation
*/
if (prob > MINSTREL_FRAC(9, 10))
prob = MINSTREL_FRAC(9, 10);
if (group != MINSTREL_CCK_GROUP)
nsecs = 1000 * mi->overhead / MINSTREL_TRUNC(mi->avg_ampdu_len);