mac80211: estimate expected throughput if not provided by driver/rc

Estimate the tx throughput based on the expected per-packet tx time.
This is useful for mesh implementations that rely on expected throughput,
e.g. 802.11s or batman-adv.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
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Felix Fietkau 2025-08-06 11:09:57 +02:00
parent 1e84b91634
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From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2025 10:49:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: factor out part of
ieee80211_calc_expected_tx_airtime
Create ieee80211_rate_expected_tx_airtime helper function, which returns
the expected tx airtime for a given rate and packet length in units of
1024 usec, for more accuracy.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
---
--- a/net/mac80211/airtime.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/airtime.c
@@ -685,7 +685,7 @@ static int ieee80211_fill_rx_status(stru
if (ieee80211_fill_rate_info(hw, stat, band, ri))
return 0;
- if (!ieee80211_rate_valid(rate))
+ if (!rate || !ieee80211_rate_valid(rate))
return -1;
if (rate->flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_160_MHZ_WIDTH)
@@ -753,6 +753,53 @@ u32 ieee80211_calc_tx_airtime(struct iee
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ieee80211_calc_tx_airtime);
+u32 ieee80211_rate_expected_tx_airtime(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
+ struct ieee80211_tx_rate *tx_rate,
+ struct rate_info *ri,
+ enum nl80211_band band,
+ bool ampdu, int len)
+{
+ struct ieee80211_rx_status stat;
+ u32 duration, overhead;
+ u8 agg_shift;
+
+ if (ieee80211_fill_rx_status(&stat, hw, tx_rate, ri, band, len))
+ return 0;
+
+ if (stat.encoding == RX_ENC_LEGACY || !ampdu)
+ return ieee80211_calc_rx_airtime(hw, &stat, len) * 1024;
+
+ duration = ieee80211_get_rate_duration(hw, &stat, &overhead);
+
+ /*
+ * Assume that HT/VHT transmission on any AC except VO will
+ * use aggregation. Since we don't have reliable reporting
+ * of aggregation length, assume an average size based on the
+ * tx rate.
+ * This will not be very accurate, but much better than simply
+ * assuming un-aggregated tx in all cases.
+ */
+ if (duration > 400 * 1024) /* <= VHT20 MCS2 1S */
+ agg_shift = 1;
+ else if (duration > 250 * 1024) /* <= VHT20 MCS3 1S or MCS1 2S */
+ agg_shift = 2;
+ else if (duration > 150 * 1024) /* <= VHT20 MCS5 1S or MCS2 2S */
+ agg_shift = 3;
+ else if (duration > 70 * 1024) /* <= VHT20 MCS5 2S */
+ agg_shift = 4;
+ else if (stat.encoding != RX_ENC_HE ||
+ duration > 20 * 1024) /* <= HE40 MCS6 2S */
+ agg_shift = 5;
+ else
+ agg_shift = 6;
+
+ duration *= len;
+ duration /= AVG_PKT_SIZE;
+ duration += (overhead * 1024 >> agg_shift);
+
+ return duration;
+}
+
u32 ieee80211_calc_expected_tx_airtime(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
struct ieee80211_sta *pubsta,
@@ -775,45 +822,13 @@ u32 ieee80211_calc_expected_tx_airtime(s
if (pubsta) {
struct sta_info *sta = container_of(pubsta, struct sta_info,
sta);
- struct ieee80211_rx_status stat;
struct ieee80211_tx_rate *tx_rate = &sta->deflink.tx_stats.last_rate;
struct rate_info *ri = &sta->deflink.tx_stats.last_rate_info;
- u32 duration, overhead;
- u8 agg_shift;
-
- if (ieee80211_fill_rx_status(&stat, hw, tx_rate, ri, band, len))
- return 0;
-
- if (stat.encoding == RX_ENC_LEGACY || !ampdu)
- return ieee80211_calc_rx_airtime(hw, &stat, len);
-
- duration = ieee80211_get_rate_duration(hw, &stat, &overhead);
- /*
- * Assume that HT/VHT transmission on any AC except VO will
- * use aggregation. Since we don't have reliable reporting
- * of aggregation length, assume an average size based on the
- * tx rate.
- * This will not be very accurate, but much better than simply
- * assuming un-aggregated tx in all cases.
- */
- if (duration > 400 * 1024) /* <= VHT20 MCS2 1S */
- agg_shift = 1;
- else if (duration > 250 * 1024) /* <= VHT20 MCS3 1S or MCS1 2S */
- agg_shift = 2;
- else if (duration > 150 * 1024) /* <= VHT20 MCS5 1S or MCS2 2S */
- agg_shift = 3;
- else if (duration > 70 * 1024) /* <= VHT20 MCS5 2S */
- agg_shift = 4;
- else if (stat.encoding != RX_ENC_HE ||
- duration > 20 * 1024) /* <= HE40 MCS6 2S */
- agg_shift = 5;
- else
- agg_shift = 6;
+ u32 duration;
- duration *= len;
- duration /= AVG_PKT_SIZE;
+ duration = ieee80211_rate_expected_tx_airtime(hw, tx_rate, ri,
+ band, true, len);
duration /= 1024;
- duration += (overhead >> agg_shift);
return max_t(u32, duration, 4);
}
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
@@ -2756,6 +2756,11 @@ u8 *ieee80211_get_bssid(struct ieee80211
extern const struct ethtool_ops ieee80211_ethtool_ops;
+u32 ieee80211_rate_expected_tx_airtime(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
+ struct ieee80211_tx_rate *tx_rate,
+ struct rate_info *ri,
+ enum nl80211_band band,
+ bool ampdu, int len);
u32 ieee80211_calc_expected_tx_airtime(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
struct ieee80211_sta *pubsta,

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From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2025 10:52:03 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: estimate expected throughput if not provided by
driver/rc
Estimate the tx throughput based on the expected per-packet tx time.
This is useful for mesh implementations that rely on expected throughput,
e.g. 802.11s or batman-adv.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
---
--- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
@@ -2621,6 +2621,27 @@ static inline u64 sta_get_stats_bytes(st
return value;
}
+static u32 sta_estimate_expected_throughput(struct sta_info *sta,
+ struct station_info *sinfo)
+{
+ struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = sta->sdata;
+ struct ieee80211_local *local = sdata->local;
+ struct rate_info *ri = &sinfo->txrate;
+ struct ieee80211_hw *hw = &local->hw;
+ struct ieee80211_chanctx_conf *conf;
+ u32 duration;
+ u8 band = 0;
+
+ conf = rcu_dereference(sdata->vif.bss_conf.chanctx_conf);
+ if (conf)
+ band = conf->def.chan->band;
+
+ duration = ieee80211_rate_expected_tx_airtime(hw, NULL, ri, band, true, 1024);
+ duration += duration >> 4; /* add assumed packet error rate of ~6% */
+
+ return ((1024 * USEC_PER_SEC) / duration) * 8;
+}
+
void sta_set_sinfo(struct sta_info *sta, struct station_info *sinfo,
bool tidstats)
{
@@ -2865,6 +2886,8 @@ void sta_set_sinfo(struct sta_info *sta,
sinfo->sta_flags.set |= BIT(NL80211_STA_FLAG_TDLS_PEER);
thr = sta_get_expected_throughput(sta);
+ if (!thr && (sinfo->filled & BIT_ULL(NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_BITRATE)))
+ thr = sta_estimate_expected_throughput(sta, sinfo);
if (thr != 0) {
sinfo->filled |= BIT_ULL(NL80211_STA_INFO_EXPECTED_THROUGHPUT);