Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: minstrel_ht: fix rounding error in throughput calculation
From: Felix Fietkau <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 12:15:06 +0100

On lower data rates, the throughput calculation has a significant rounding
error, causing rates like 48M and 54M OFDM to share the same throughput
value with >= 90% success probablity.

This is because the result of the division (prob_avg * 1000) / nsecs
is really small (8 in this example).

Improve accuracy by moving over some zeroes, making better use of the full
range of u32 before the division.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <[email-masked]>
---

--- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c
@@ -445,10 +445,9 @@ minstrel_ht_get_tp_avg(struct minstrel_h
 	 * (prob is scaled - see MINSTREL_FRAC above)
 	 */
 	if (prob_avg > MINSTREL_FRAC(90, 100))
-		return MINSTREL_TRUNC(100000 * ((MINSTREL_FRAC(90, 100) * 1000)
-								      / nsecs));
-	else
-		return MINSTREL_TRUNC(100000 * ((prob_avg * 1000) / nsecs));
+		prob_avg = MINSTREL_FRAC(90, 100);
+
+	return MINSTREL_TRUNC(100 * ((prob_avg * 1000000) / nsecs));
 }
 
 /*