[Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH v10 4/4] mac80211: Use Airtime-based Queue Limits (AQL) on packet dequeue

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke at redhat.com
Sat Nov 16 06:57:21 EST 2019


From: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at redhat.com>

The previous commit added the ability to throttle stations when they queue
too much airtime in the hardware. This commit enables the functionality by
calculating the expected airtime usage of each packet that is dequeued from
the TXQs in mac80211, and accounting that as pending airtime.

The estimated airtime for each skb is stored in the tx_info, so we can
subtract the same amount from the running total when the skb is freed or
recycled. The throttling mechanism relies on this accounting to be
accurate (i.e., that we are not freeing skbs without subtracting any
airtime they were accounted for), so we put the subtraction into
ieee80211_report_used_skb(). As an optimisation, we also subtract the
airtime on regular TX completion, zeroing out the value stored in the
packet afterwards, to avoid having to do an expensive lookup of the station
from the packet data on every packet.

This patch does *not* include any mechanism to wake a throttled TXQ again,
on the assumption that this will happen anyway as a side effect of whatever
freed the skb (most commonly a TX completion).

Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at redhat.com>
---
 include/net/mac80211.h |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 net/mac80211/status.c  |   26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 net/mac80211/tx.c      |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 60 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index ba3f33cc41ea..aa145808e57a 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -1060,6 +1060,22 @@ struct ieee80211_tx_info {
 	};
 };
 
+static inline u16
+ieee80211_info_set_tx_time_est(struct ieee80211_tx_info *info, u16 tx_time_est)
+{
+	/* We only have 10 bits in tx_time_est, so store airtime
+	 * in increments of 4us and clamp the maximum to 2**12-1
+	 */
+	info->tx_time_est = min_t(u16, tx_time_est, 4095) >> 2;
+	return info->tx_time_est << 2;
+}
+
+static inline u16
+ieee80211_info_get_tx_time_est(struct ieee80211_tx_info *info)
+{
+	return info->tx_time_est << 2;
+}
+
 /**
  * struct ieee80211_tx_status - extended tx status info for rate control
  *
diff --git a/net/mac80211/status.c b/net/mac80211/status.c
index 0e51def35b8a..39da82b35be9 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/status.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/status.c
@@ -670,12 +670,26 @@ static void ieee80211_report_used_skb(struct ieee80211_local *local,
 				      struct sk_buff *skb, bool dropped)
 {
 	struct ieee80211_tx_info *info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb);
+	u16 tx_time_est = ieee80211_info_get_tx_time_est(info);
 	struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr = (void *)skb->data;
 	bool acked = info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK;
 
 	if (dropped)
 		acked = false;
 
+	if (tx_time_est) {
+		struct sta_info *sta;
+
+		rcu_read_lock();
+
+		sta = sta_info_get_by_addrs(local, hdr->addr1, hdr->addr2);
+		ieee80211_sta_update_pending_airtime(local, sta,
+						     skb_get_queue_mapping(skb),
+						     tx_time_est,
+						     true);
+		rcu_read_unlock();
+	}
+
 	if (info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_MLME_CONN_TX) {
 		struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata;
 
@@ -877,6 +891,7 @@ static void __ieee80211_tx_status(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 	struct ieee80211_bar *bar;
 	int shift = 0;
 	int tid = IEEE80211_NUM_TIDS;
+	u16 tx_time_est;
 
 	rates_idx = ieee80211_tx_get_rates(hw, info, &retry_count);
 
@@ -986,6 +1001,17 @@ static void __ieee80211_tx_status(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 			ieee80211_sta_register_airtime(&sta->sta, tid,
 						       info->status.tx_time, 0);
 
+		if ((tx_time_est = ieee80211_info_get_tx_time_est(info)) > 0) {
+			/* Do this here to avoid the expensive lookup of the sta
+			 * in ieee80211_report_used_skb().
+			 */
+			ieee80211_sta_update_pending_airtime(local, sta,
+							     skb_get_queue_mapping(skb),
+							     tx_time_est,
+							     true);
+			ieee80211_info_set_tx_time_est(info, 0);
+		}
+
 		if (ieee80211_hw_check(&local->hw, REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS)) {
 			if (info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK) {
 				if (sta->status_stats.lost_packets)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index aafc67b562eb..2fb6571453e7 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -3551,6 +3551,9 @@ struct sk_buff *ieee80211_tx_dequeue(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(softirq_count() == 0);
 
+	if (!ieee80211_txq_airtime_check(hw, txq))
+		return NULL;
+
 begin:
 	spin_lock_bh(&fq->lock);
 
@@ -3661,6 +3664,21 @@ struct sk_buff *ieee80211_tx_dequeue(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 	}
 
 	IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb)->control.vif = vif;
+
+	if (local->airtime_flags & AIRTIME_USE_AQL) {
+		u32 airtime;
+
+		airtime = ieee80211_calc_expected_tx_airtime(hw, vif, txq->sta,
+							     skb->len);
+		if (airtime) {
+			airtime = ieee80211_info_set_tx_time_est(info, airtime);
+			ieee80211_sta_update_pending_airtime(local, tx.sta,
+							     txq->ac,
+							     airtime,
+							     false);
+		}
+	}
+
 	return skb;
 
 out:



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