From e3718a611470d311a92c60d4eb535270b49a7108 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Lüssing Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 09:30:33 +0200 Subject: cfg80211/mac80211: add mesh_param "mesh_nolearn" to skip path discovery MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Currently, before being able to forward a packet between two 802.11s nodes, both a PLINK handshake is performed upon receiving a beacon and then later a PREQ/PREP exchange for path discovery is performed on demand upon receiving a data frame to forward. When running a mesh protocol on top of an 802.11s interface, like batman-adv, we do not need the multi-hop mesh routing capabilities of 802.11s and usually set mesh_fwding=0. However, even with mesh_fwding=0 the PREQ/PREP path discovery is still performed on demand. Even though in this scenario the next hop PREQ/PREP will determine is always the direct 11s neighbor node. The new mesh_nolearn parameter allows to skip the PREQ/PREP exchange in this scenario, leading to a reduced delay, reduced packet buffering and simplifies HWMP in general. mesh_nolearn is still rather conservative in that if the packet destination is not a direct 11s neighbor, it will fall back to PREQ/PREP path discovery. For normal, multi-hop 802.11s mesh routing it is usually not advisable to enable mesh_nolearn as a transmission to a direct but distant neighbor might be worse than reaching that same node via a more robust / higher throughput etc. multi-hop path. Cc: Sven Eckelmann Cc: Simon Wunderlich Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200617073034.26149-1-linus.luessing@c0d3.blue [fix nl80211 policy to range 0/1 only] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c') diff --git a/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c b/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c index d7e955127d5c..09eab2c3f380 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c +++ b/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c @@ -638,6 +638,7 @@ IEEE80211_IF_FILE(dot11MeshAwakeWindowDuration, u.mesh.mshcfg.dot11MeshAwakeWindowDuration, DEC); IEEE80211_IF_FILE(dot11MeshConnectedToMeshGate, u.mesh.mshcfg.dot11MeshConnectedToMeshGate, DEC); +IEEE80211_IF_FILE(dot11MeshNolearn, u.mesh.mshcfg.dot11MeshNolearn, DEC); #endif #define DEBUGFS_ADD_MODE(name, mode) \ @@ -762,6 +763,7 @@ static void add_mesh_config(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata) MESHPARAMS_ADD(power_mode); MESHPARAMS_ADD(dot11MeshAwakeWindowDuration); MESHPARAMS_ADD(dot11MeshConnectedToMeshGate); + MESHPARAMS_ADD(dot11MeshNolearn); #undef MESHPARAMS_ADD } #endif -- cgit v1.2.3