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authorThomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>2015-03-24 21:09:43 +0100
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2015-04-01 20:44:33 +0200
commit5f919abc76fc3de1e5965ea03c925f7563c7fc15 (patch)
tree8ed67f827d3b66cbfb140c66d8cd2d0f115633a6 /net
parentade6d4a2ec57d258bc181a155288c267dd8cf094 (diff)
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mac80211: add standard deviation to Minstrel stats
This patch adds the statistical descriptor "standard deviation" to better describe the current properties of Minstrel and Minstrel-HTs success probability distribution. The standard deviation (SD) is calculated as exponential weighted moving standard deviation (EWMSD) and its current value is added as new column in all rc_stats (in debugfs). Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de> Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c19
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.h22
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_debugfs.c19
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht_debugfs.c14
4 files changed, 56 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c
index c4a3477..247552a 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ minstrel_update_rates(struct minstrel_priv *mp, struct minstrel_sta_info *mi)
}
/*
-* Recalculate success probabilities and counters for a given rate using EWMA
+* Recalculate statistics and counters of a given rate
*/
void
minstrel_calc_rate_stats(struct minstrel_rate_stats *mrs)
@@ -161,11 +161,20 @@ minstrel_calc_rate_stats(struct minstrel_rate_stats *mrs)
if (unlikely(mrs->attempts > 0)) {
mrs->sample_skipped = 0;
mrs->cur_prob = MINSTREL_FRAC(mrs->success, mrs->attempts);
- if (unlikely(!mrs->att_hist))
+ if (unlikely(!mrs->att_hist)) {
mrs->prob_ewma = mrs->cur_prob;
- else
+ } else {
+ /* update exponential weighted moving variance */
+ mrs->prob_ewmsd = minstrel_ewmsd(mrs->prob_ewmsd,
+ mrs->cur_prob,
+ mrs->prob_ewma,
+ EWMA_LEVEL);
+
+ /*update exponential weighted moving avarage */
mrs->prob_ewma = minstrel_ewma(mrs->prob_ewma,
- mrs->cur_prob, EWMA_LEVEL);
+ mrs->cur_prob,
+ EWMA_LEVEL);
+ }
mrs->att_hist += mrs->attempts;
mrs->succ_hist += mrs->success;
} else {
@@ -193,7 +202,7 @@ minstrel_update_stats(struct minstrel_priv *mp, struct minstrel_sta_info *mi)
struct minstrel_rate_stats *mrs = &mi->r[i].stats;
struct minstrel_rate_stats *tmp_mrs = &mi->r[tmp_prob_rate].stats;
- /* Update success probabilities per rate */
+ /* Update statistics of success probability per rate */
minstrel_calc_rate_stats(mrs);
/* Sample less often below the 10% chance of success.
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.h b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.h
index 9c85a61..c230bbe 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.h
@@ -35,6 +35,24 @@ minstrel_ewma(int old, int new, int weight)
return old + incr;
}
+/*
+ * Perform EWMSD (Exponentially Weighted Moving Standard Deviation) calculation
+ */
+static inline int
+minstrel_ewmsd(int old_ewmsd, int cur_prob, int prob_ewma, int weight)
+{
+ int diff, incr, tmp_var;
+
+ /* calculate exponential weighted moving variance */
+ diff = MINSTREL_TRUNC((cur_prob - prob_ewma) * 1000000);
+ incr = (EWMA_DIV - weight) * diff / EWMA_DIV;
+ tmp_var = old_ewmsd * old_ewmsd;
+ tmp_var = weight * (tmp_var + diff * incr / 1000000) / EWMA_DIV;
+
+ /* return standard deviation */
+ return (u16) int_sqrt(tmp_var);
+}
+
struct minstrel_rate_stats {
/* current / last sampling period attempts/success counters */
u16 attempts, last_attempts;
@@ -45,9 +63,11 @@ struct minstrel_rate_stats {
/* statistis of packet delivery probability
* cur_prob - current prob within last update intervall
- * prob_ewma - exponential weighted moving average of prob */
+ * prob_ewma - exponential weighted moving average of prob
+ * prob_ewmsd - exp. weighted moving standard deviation of prob */
unsigned int cur_prob;
unsigned int prob_ewma;
+ u16 prob_ewmsd;
/* maximum retry counts */
u8 retry_count;
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_debugfs.c b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_debugfs.c
index 617b81f..1db5f7c 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_debugfs.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_debugfs.c
@@ -85,10 +85,12 @@ minstrel_stats_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
file->private_data = ms;
p = ms->buf;
p += sprintf(p, "\n");
- p += sprintf(p, "best __________rate_________ __statistics__ "
- "________last_______ ______sum-of________\n");
- p += sprintf(p, "rate [name idx airtime max_tp] [ ø(tp) ø(prob)] "
- "[prob.|retry|suc|att] [#success | #attempts]\n");
+ p += sprintf(p, "best __________rate_________ ______"
+ "statistics______ ________last_______ "
+ "______sum-of________\n");
+ p += sprintf(p, "rate [name idx airtime max_tp] [ ø(tp) ø(prob) "
+ "sd(prob)] [prob.|retry|suc|att] "
+ "[#success | #attempts]\n");
for (i = 0; i < mi->n_rates; i++) {
struct minstrel_rate *mr = &mi->r[i];
@@ -110,11 +112,13 @@ minstrel_stats_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
prob = MINSTREL_TRUNC(mrs->cur_prob * 1000);
eprob = MINSTREL_TRUNC(mrs->prob_ewma * 1000);
- p += sprintf(p, "%4u.%1u %4u.%1u %3u.%1u %3u.%1u %3u"
- " %3u %-3u %9llu %-9llu\n",
+ p += sprintf(p, "%4u.%1u %4u.%1u %3u.%1u %3u.%1u"
+ " %3u.%1u %3u %3u %-3u "
+ "%9llu %-9llu\n",
tp_max / 10, tp_max % 10,
tp_avg / 10, tp_avg % 10,
eprob / 10, eprob % 10,
+ mrs->prob_ewmsd / 10, mrs->prob_ewmsd % 10,
prob / 10, prob % 10,
mrs->retry_count,
mrs->last_success,
@@ -176,11 +180,12 @@ minstrel_stats_csv_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
prob = MINSTREL_TRUNC(mrs->cur_prob * 1000);
eprob = MINSTREL_TRUNC(mrs->prob_ewma * 1000);
- p += sprintf(p, "%u.%u,%u.%u,%u.%u,%u.%u,%u,%u,%u,"
+ p += sprintf(p, "%u.%u,%u.%u,%u.%u,%u.%u,%u.%u,%u,%u,%u,"
"%llu,%llu,%d,%d\n",
tp_max / 10, tp_max % 10,
tp_avg / 10, tp_avg % 10,
eprob / 10, eprob % 10,
+ mrs->prob_ewmsd / 10, mrs->prob_ewmsd % 10,
prob / 10, prob % 10,
mrs->retry_count,
mrs->last_success,
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht_debugfs.c b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht_debugfs.c
index 135ed39..6822ce0 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht_debugfs.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht_debugfs.c
@@ -86,11 +86,13 @@ minstrel_ht_stats_dump(struct minstrel_ht_sta *mi, int i, char *p)
prob = MINSTREL_TRUNC(mrs->cur_prob * 1000);
eprob = MINSTREL_TRUNC(mrs->prob_ewma * 1000);
- p += sprintf(p, "%4u.%1u %4u.%1u %3u.%1u %3u.%1u "
- "%3u %3u %-3u %9llu %-9llu\n",
+ p += sprintf(p, "%4u.%1u %4u.%1u %3u.%1u %3u.%1u"
+ " %3u.%1u %3u %3u %-3u "
+ "%9llu %-9llu\n",
tp_max / 10, tp_max % 10,
tp_avg / 10, tp_avg % 10,
eprob / 10, eprob % 10,
+ mrs->prob_ewmsd / 10, mrs->prob_ewmsd % 10,
prob / 10, prob % 10,
mrs->retry_count,
mrs->last_success,
@@ -128,10 +130,10 @@ minstrel_ht_stats_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
p += sprintf(p, "\n");
p += sprintf(p, " best ____________rate__________ "
- "__statistics__ ________last_______ "
+ "______statistics______ ________last_______ "
"______sum-of________\n");
p += sprintf(p, "mode guard # rate [name idx airtime max_tp] "
- "[ ø(tp) ø(prob)] [prob.|retry|suc|att] [#success | "
+ "[ ø(tp) ø(prob) sd(prob)] [prob.|retry|suc|att] [#success | "
"#attempts]\n");
p = minstrel_ht_stats_dump(mi, MINSTREL_CCK_GROUP, p);
@@ -229,10 +231,12 @@ minstrel_ht_stats_csv_dump(struct minstrel_ht_sta *mi, int i, char *p)
prob = MINSTREL_TRUNC(mrs->cur_prob * 1000);
eprob = MINSTREL_TRUNC(mrs->prob_ewma * 1000);
- p += sprintf(p, "%u.%u,%u.%u,%u.%u,%u.%u,%u,%u,%u,%llu,%llu,",
+ p += sprintf(p, "%u.%u,%u.%u,%u.%u,%u.%u,%u.%u,%u,%u,"
+ "%u,%llu,%llu,",
tp_max / 10, tp_max % 10,
tp_avg / 10, tp_avg % 10,
eprob / 10, eprob % 10,
+ mrs->prob_ewmsd / 10, mrs->prob_ewmsd % 10,
prob / 10, prob % 10,
mrs->retry_count,
mrs->last_success,
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