Re: [PATCH v8 0/2] Implement Airtime-based Queue Limit (AQL)

[Kan Yan <kyan@google.com>]

I have tested it with Toke's patch "[PATCH v6 4/4] mac80211: Use
Airtime-based Queue Limits (AQL) on packet dequeue", but didn't
include it here, as it is self contained and Toke has plan to update
it.

The platform (QCA9984) used in my test doesn't support 802.11ax, so I
was not able to test the HE mode support added in v7 update of "Import
airtime calculation code from mt76" from Toke.

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 5:48 PM Kan Yan <kyan@google.com> wrote:
>
> This patch series port the Airtime Queue Limits concept from the out-of-tree
> ath10k implementation[0] to mac80211. This version takes my patch to do the
> throttling in mac80211, and replaces the driver API with the mechanism from
> Toke's series, which instead calculated the expected airtime at dequeue time
> inside mac80211, storing it in the SKB cb field.
>
> This version has been tested on QCA9984 platform.
>
> [0] https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromiumos/third_party/kernel/+/1703105/7
>
> Changelog:
>
> v8:
>   - Includes Toke's v7 version of "mac80211: Import airtime calculation code from mt76"
>   - Don't clobber sta's customized queue limit when configuring the default via debugfs
>   - Fix a racing condition when reset aql_tx_pending.
>
> v7:
>   - Fix aql_total_pending_airtime underflow due to insufficient locking.
>
> v6:
>   - Fix sta lookup in ieee80211_report_used_skb().
>   - Move call to ieee80211_sta_update_pending_airtime() to a bit later in
>     __ieee80211_tx_status()
> v5:
>   - Add missing export of ieee80211_calc_rx_airtime() and make
>     ieee80211_calc_tx_airtime_rate() static (kbuildbot).
>   - Use skb_get_queue_mapping() to get the AC from the skb.
>   - Take basic rate configuration for the BSS into account when calculating
>     multicast rate.
> v4:
>   - Fix calculation that clamps the maximum airtime to fit into 10 bits
>   - Incorporate Rich Brown's nits for the commit message in Kan's patch
>   - Add fewer local variables to ieee80211_tx_dequeue()
> v3:
>   - Move the tx_time_est field so it's shared with ack_frame_id, and use units
>     of 4us for the value stored in it.
>   - Move the addition of the Ethernet header size into ieee80211_calc_expected_tx_airtime()
> v2:
>   - Integrate Kan's approach to airtime throttling.
>   - Hopefully fix the cb struct alignment on big-endian architectures.
>
>
>
> Kan Yan (1):
>   mac80211: Implement Airtime-based Queue Limit (AQL)
>
> Toke Høiland-Jørgensen (1):
>   mac80211: Import airtime calculation code from mt76
>
>  include/net/cfg80211.h     |   7 +
>  include/net/mac80211.h     |  41 +++
>  net/mac80211/Makefile      |   3 +-
>  net/mac80211/airtime.c     | 597 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  net/mac80211/debugfs.c     |  85 ++++++
>  net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c |  43 ++-
>  net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h |   8 +
>  net/mac80211/main.c        |  10 +-
>  net/mac80211/sta_info.c    |  38 +++
>  net/mac80211/sta_info.h    |   8 +
>  net/mac80211/tx.c          |  47 ++-
>  11 files changed, 872 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 net/mac80211/airtime.c
>
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