From: Nicolas Cavallari <Nicolas.Cavallari@green-communications.fr> To: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>, Rameshkumar Sundaram <quic_ramess@quicinc.com>, ath11k@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] nl80211: add support to enable/disable bss color collision detection Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 17:10:04 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <17d8494a-ebae-e317-6096-c8621d0f33e3@green-communications.fr> (raw) In-Reply-To: <Y8q5Z98S3pODD77W@lore-desk> On 20/01/2023 16:55, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote: >> On 19/01/2023 15:02, Johannes Berg wrote: >>> On Mon, 2022-12-26 at 14:03 +0530, Rameshkumar Sundaram wrote: >>>> As per 802.11ax-2021, STAs shall process BSS Color Change Announcement >>>> (BCCA) from AP and switch to new color, but some STAs aren't processing >>>> BCCA from AP and not doing color switch, causing them to drop data >>>> frames from AP post color change. >>>> >>>> Provide an option to disable color collision detection and therefore >>>> not to do BCCA to mitigate the same from AP. If it's required in case >>>> where STA supports BCCA handling, then it can enabled in AP using this >>>> option. >>>> >>> >>> You should probably split this into cfg80211 and mac80211. >>> >>> Also, this doesn't really seem to make a lot of _sense_ since nothing in >>> the kernel actually acts on detection of a color collision - hostapd is >>> acting on that. >>> >>> So since you can easily make hostapd ignore the event, why do you even >>> need this? >> >> This may not be related, but the software color collision detection sends a >> netlink message for every colliding frame and it can hose up the system if >> the other network is very active. >> >> Also, cfg80211_bss_color_notify() complains that the wdev lock isn't held. > > Hi Nicolas, > > I agree, I think we can ratelimit netlink messages sent by the kernel to > userspace (e.g. to hostapd), I would say every 500ms is ok. > I guess we can move cfg80211_obss_color_collision_notify() in a dedicated > delayed_work so we can grab wdev mutex (cfg80211_obss_color_collision_notify is > currently running in interrupt context). > To give an idea, what do you think about patch below? (please note it is just > compiled tested so far). I think it should fix the problem, I'll try to test it. Thanks! > Regards, > Lorenzo -- ath11k mailing list ath11k@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath11k
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From: Nicolas Cavallari <Nicolas.Cavallari@green-communications.fr> To: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>, Rameshkumar Sundaram <quic_ramess@quicinc.com>, ath11k@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] nl80211: add support to enable/disable bss color collision detection Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 17:10:04 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <17d8494a-ebae-e317-6096-c8621d0f33e3@green-communications.fr> (raw) In-Reply-To: <Y8q5Z98S3pODD77W@lore-desk> On 20/01/2023 16:55, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote: >> On 19/01/2023 15:02, Johannes Berg wrote: >>> On Mon, 2022-12-26 at 14:03 +0530, Rameshkumar Sundaram wrote: >>>> As per 802.11ax-2021, STAs shall process BSS Color Change Announcement >>>> (BCCA) from AP and switch to new color, but some STAs aren't processing >>>> BCCA from AP and not doing color switch, causing them to drop data >>>> frames from AP post color change. >>>> >>>> Provide an option to disable color collision detection and therefore >>>> not to do BCCA to mitigate the same from AP. If it's required in case >>>> where STA supports BCCA handling, then it can enabled in AP using this >>>> option. >>>> >>> >>> You should probably split this into cfg80211 and mac80211. >>> >>> Also, this doesn't really seem to make a lot of _sense_ since nothing in >>> the kernel actually acts on detection of a color collision - hostapd is >>> acting on that. >>> >>> So since you can easily make hostapd ignore the event, why do you even >>> need this? >> >> This may not be related, but the software color collision detection sends a >> netlink message for every colliding frame and it can hose up the system if >> the other network is very active. >> >> Also, cfg80211_bss_color_notify() complains that the wdev lock isn't held. > > Hi Nicolas, > > I agree, I think we can ratelimit netlink messages sent by the kernel to > userspace (e.g. to hostapd), I would say every 500ms is ok. > I guess we can move cfg80211_obss_color_collision_notify() in a dedicated > delayed_work so we can grab wdev mutex (cfg80211_obss_color_collision_notify is > currently running in interrupt context). > To give an idea, what do you think about patch below? (please note it is just > compiled tested so far). I think it should fix the problem, I'll try to test it. Thanks! > Regards, > Lorenzo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-20 16:10 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2022-12-26 8:33 [PATCH 0/2] wifi: Add support to enable/disable bss color collision detection Rameshkumar Sundaram 2022-12-26 8:33 ` Rameshkumar Sundaram 2022-12-26 8:33 ` [PATCH 1/2] nl80211: add " Rameshkumar Sundaram 2022-12-26 8:33 ` Rameshkumar Sundaram 2023-01-19 14:02 ` Johannes Berg 2023-01-19 14:02 ` Johannes Berg 2023-01-19 14:52 ` Nicolas Cavallari 2023-01-19 14:52 ` Nicolas Cavallari 2023-01-19 14:54 ` Johannes Berg 2023-01-19 14:54 ` Johannes Berg 2023-01-19 18:36 ` Lorenzo Bianconi 2023-01-19 18:36 ` Lorenzo Bianconi 2023-01-20 15:55 ` Lorenzo Bianconi 2023-01-20 15:55 ` Lorenzo Bianconi 2023-01-20 16:10 ` Nicolas Cavallari [this message] 2023-01-20 16:10 ` Nicolas Cavallari 2023-01-24 11:13 ` Nicolas Cavallari 2023-01-24 11:13 ` Nicolas Cavallari 2023-01-24 14:09 ` Lorenzo Bianconi 2023-01-24 14:09 ` Lorenzo Bianconi 2023-01-23 4:57 ` Rameshkumar Sundaram (QUIC) 2023-01-23 4:57 ` Rameshkumar Sundaram (QUIC) 2022-12-26 8:33 ` [PATCH 2/2] ath11k: add support to enable/disable BSS " Rameshkumar Sundaram 2022-12-26 8:33 ` Rameshkumar Sundaram
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