From 507a13f5c9c9bc93813d1ef6985bdccf1e1b82e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mordechay Goodstein Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:23:16 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] iwlwifi: rs: set RTS protection for all non legacy rates This helps with congested environments reducing the conflict cost to RTS retries only, instead of the entire BA packet. Signed-off-by: Mordechay Goodstein Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/iwlwifi.20200928121852.da97d87d7adf.If06301d4660b14e459195a15831b069b9f6c5e3c@changeid Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho --- drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/api/rs.h | 11 +++++++++-- drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/rs.c | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/api/rs.h b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/api/rs.h index 4347be6..73b839c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/api/rs.h +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/api/rs.h @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ * * Copyright(c) 2012 - 2014 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. * Copyright(c) 2017 Intel Deutschland GmbH - * Copyright(c) 2018 - 2019 Intel Corporation + * Copyright(c) 2018 - 2020 Intel Corporation * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ * * Copyright(c) 2012 - 2014 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. * Copyright(c) 2017 Intel Deutschland GmbH - * Copyright(c) 2018 - 2019 Intel Corporation + * Copyright(c) 2018 - 2020 Intel Corporation * All rights reserved. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without @@ -486,6 +486,13 @@ enum { #define RATE_MCS_HE_106T_POS 28 #define RATE_MCS_HE_106T_MSK (1 << RATE_MCS_HE_106T_POS) +/* Bit 30-31: (1) RTS, (2) CTS */ +#define RATE_MCS_RTS_REQUIRED_POS (30) +#define RATE_MCS_RTS_REQUIRED_MSK (0x1 << RATE_MCS_RTS_REQUIRED_POS) + +#define RATE_MCS_CTS_REQUIRED_POS (31) +#define RATE_MCS_CTS_REQUIRED_MSK (0x1 << RATE_MCS_CTS_REQUIRED_POS) + /* Link Quality definitions */ /* # entries in rate scale table to support Tx retries */ diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/rs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/rs.c index 86b2ebb..ed7382e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/rs.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/rs.c @@ -830,6 +830,12 @@ static u32 ucode_rate_from_rs_rate(struct iwl_mvm *mvm, return ucode_rate; } + /* set RTS protection for all non legacy rates + * This helps with congested environments reducing the conflict cost to + * RTS retries only, instead of the entire BA packet. + */ + ucode_rate |= RATE_MCS_RTS_REQUIRED_MSK; + if (is_ht(rate)) { if (index < IWL_FIRST_HT_RATE || index > IWL_LAST_HT_RATE) { IWL_ERR(mvm, "Invalid HT rate index %d\n", index); -- 2.7.4