[B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 1/7] cfg80211: export expected throughput through get_station()

Antonio Quartulli
2014-04-14T14:03:19Z

From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>

Users may need information about the expected throughput
towards a given peer computed by the RC algorithm.
Export such value in Mbps/100 through the get_station() API.
This unit has been chosen because it is the same of the
throughput returned by MinstrelHT.

This information will be useful to the batman-adv module
which will use it for its new metric computation.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
---

Changes since the RFC:
- Change all the station_info_flags to use BIT()
- Properly comment about the unit used by the throughput value
- added new ieee80211_ops.get_expected_throughput() API (to support drivers
having HW RC)
- improved doc about new cfg80211_get_station() function
- minor cleanups

include/net/cfg80211.h | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h
index 9496fe5..d4b85f7 100644
--- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
+++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
@@ -862,36 +862,38 @@ int cfg80211_check_station_change(struct wiphy *wiphy,
* @STATION_INFO_NONPEER_PM: @nonpeer_pm filled
* @STATION_INFO_CHAIN_SIGNAL: @chain_signal filled
* @STATION_INFO_CHAIN_SIGNAL_AVG: @chain_signal_avg filled
+ * @STATION_INFO_EXPECTED_THROUGHPUT: @expected_throughput filled
*/
enum station_info_flags {
- STATION_INFO_INACTIVE_TIME = 1<<0,
- STATION_INFO_RX_BYTES = 1<<1,
- STATION_INFO_TX_BYTES = 1<<2,
- STATION_INFO_LLID = 1<<3,
- STATION_INFO_PLID = 1<<4,
- STATION_INFO_PLINK_STATE = 1<<5,
- STATION_INFO_SIGNAL = 1<<6,
- STATION_INFO_TX_BITRATE = 1<<7,
- STATION_INFO_RX_PACKETS = 1<<8,
- STATION_INFO_TX_PACKETS = 1<<9,
- STATION_INFO_TX_RETRIES = 1<<10,
- STATION_INFO_TX_FAILED = 1<<11,
- STATION_INFO_RX_DROP_MISC = 1<<12,
- STATION_INFO_SIGNAL_AVG = 1<<13,
- STATION_INFO_RX_BITRATE = 1<<14,
- STATION_INFO_BSS_PARAM = 1<<15,
- STATION_INFO_CONNECTED_TIME = 1<<16,
- STATION_INFO_ASSOC_REQ_IES = 1<<17,
- STATION_INFO_STA_FLAGS = 1<<18,
- STATION_INFO_BEACON_LOSS_COUNT = 1<<19,
- STATION_INFO_T_OFFSET = 1<<20,
- STATION_INFO_LOCAL_PM = 1<<21,
- STATION_INFO_PEER_PM = 1<<22,
- STATION_INFO_NONPEER_PM = 1<<23,
- STATION_INFO_RX_BYTES64 = 1<<24,
- STATION_INFO_TX_BYTES64 = 1<<25,
- STATION_INFO_CHAIN_SIGNAL = 1<<26,
- STATION_INFO_CHAIN_SIGNAL_AVG = 1<<27,
+ STATION_INFO_INACTIVE_TIME = BIT(0),
+ STATION_INFO_RX_BYTES = BIT(1),
+ STATION_INFO_TX_BYTES = BIT(2),
+ STATION_INFO_LLID = BIT(3),
+ STATION_INFO_PLID = BIT(4),
+ STATION_INFO_PLINK_STATE = BIT(5),
+ STATION_INFO_SIGNAL = BIT(6),
+ STATION_INFO_TX_BITRATE = BIT(7),
+ STATION_INFO_RX_PACKETS = BIT(8),
+ STATION_INFO_TX_PACKETS = BIT(9),
+ STATION_INFO_TX_RETRIES = BIT(10),
+ STATION_INFO_TX_FAILED = BIT(11),
+ STATION_INFO_RX_DROP_MISC = BIT(12),
+ STATION_INFO_SIGNAL_AVG = BIT(13),
+ STATION_INFO_RX_BITRATE = BIT(14),
+ STATION_INFO_BSS_PARAM = BIT(15),
+ STATION_INFO_CONNECTED_TIME = BIT(16),
+ STATION_INFO_ASSOC_REQ_IES = BIT(17),
+ STATION_INFO_STA_FLAGS = BIT(18),
+ STATION_INFO_BEACON_LOSS_COUNT = BIT(19),
+ STATION_INFO_T_OFFSET = BIT(20),
+ STATION_INFO_LOCAL_PM = BIT(21),
+ STATION_INFO_PEER_PM = BIT(22),
+ STATION_INFO_NONPEER_PM = BIT(23),
+ STATION_INFO_RX_BYTES64 = BIT(24),
+ STATION_INFO_TX_BYTES64 = BIT(25),
+ STATION_INFO_CHAIN_SIGNAL = BIT(26),
+ STATION_INFO_CHAIN_SIGNAL_AVG = BIT(27),
+ STATION_INFO_EXPECTED_THROUGHPUT = BIT(28),
};

/**
@@ -1013,6 +1015,9 @@ struct sta_bss_parameters {
* @local_pm: local mesh STA power save mode
* @peer_pm: peer mesh STA power save mode
* @nonpeer_pm: non-peer mesh STA power save mode
+ * @expected_throughput: expected throughput in Mbps/100 reported by the RC
+ * algorithm towards this station. The unit of this value has been chosen
+ * because it is the same of the throughput returned by MinstrelHT
*/
struct station_info {
u32 filled;
@@ -1051,6 +1056,8 @@ struct station_info {
enum nl80211_mesh_power_mode peer_pm;
enum nl80211_mesh_power_mode nonpeer_pm;

+ u32 expected_throughput;
+
/*
* Note: Add a new enum station_info_flags value for each new field and
* use it to check which fields are initialized.
--
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