mac80211/minstrel_ht: do not sample actively used rates

max_tp_rate2 and max_prob_rate tend to get used occasionally during
retransmission, which is more useful for the statistics than probing
with individual probe packets.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

diff --git a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c
index 0fc9449925effd88d601856ddd8823c483b01a1f..d2b264d1311d25a337fc267b69f931b996e8e07a 100644 (file)
--- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c
@@ -648,10 +648,13 @@ minstrel_get_sample_rate(struct minstrel_priv *mp, struct minstrel_ht_sta *mi)
        /*
         * Sampling might add some overhead (RTS, no aggregation)
         * to the frame. Hence, don't use sampling for the currently
-        * used max TP rate.
+        * used rates.
         */
-       if (sample_idx == mi->max_tp_rate)
+       if (sample_idx == mi->max_tp_rate ||
+           sample_idx == mi->max_tp_rate2 ||
+           sample_idx == mi->max_prob_rate)
                return -1;
+
        /*
         * Do not sample if the probability is already higher than 95%
         * to avoid wasting airtime.