From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from li674-96.members.linode.com (mail.w1.fi [212.71.239.96]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 931163CB36 for ; Thu, 2 May 2019 08:38:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by li674-96.members.linode.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6DD812142; Thu, 2 May 2019 12:38:31 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at w1.fi Received: from li674-96.members.linode.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.w1.fi [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id JYxlruWUNJBB; Thu, 2 May 2019 12:38:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by jm (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 02 May 2019 15:38:27 +0300 Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 15:38:27 +0300 From: Jouni Malinen To: Toke =?utf-8?Q?H=C3=B8iland-J=C3=B8rgensen?= Cc: hostap@lists.infradead.org, make-wifi-fast@lists.bufferbloat.net Message-ID: <20190502123827.GA19359@w1.fi> References: <20190320145852.19834-1-toke@toke.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20190320145852.19834-1-toke@toke.dk> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 02 May 2019 08:58:57 -0400 Subject: Re: [Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH] hostapd: Add airtime policy configuration support X-BeenThere: make-wifi-fast@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 12:38:32 -0000 On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 03:58:52PM +0100, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote: > This adds support to hostapd for configuring airtime policy settings for > stations as they connect to the access point. This is the userspace > component of the airtime policy enforcement system PoliFi described in this > paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03439 > > The kernel part has been merged into mac80211 for the 5.1 dev cycle. > > The configuration mechanism has three modes: Static, dynamic and limit. In > static mode, weights can be set in the configuration file for individual > MAC addresses, which will be applied when the configured stations connect. > > In dynamic mode, weights are instead set per BSS, which will be scaled by > the number of active stations on that BSS, achieving the desired aggregate > weighing between the configured BSSes. Limit mode works like dynamic mode, > except that any BSS *not* marked as 'limited' is allowed to exceed its > configured share if a per-station fairness share would assign more airtime > to that BSS. See the paper for details on these modes. Thanks, applied with some fixes and cleanup. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA