To improve aggregation length, there should not be more than two fully formed
A-MPDU frames in the hardware queue. To ensure this, the code checks the tx
queue length before forming new A-MPDUs. This can reduce the throughput (or
maybe even starve out A-MPDU traffic) when too many non-aggregated frames are
in the queue.
Fix this by keeping track of pending A-MPDU frames (even when they're sent out
as single frames), but exclude rate control probing frames to improve
performance.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The old survey implementation was broken and returned nonsense data.
Clear cycle counters and survey data on reset. Since the cycle counters easily
overflow it's better to keep a local version of collected survey data (in ms
resolution, instead of clockrate) and update this every time survey is
retrieved. If survey is retrieved often enough to avoid cycle counter overflows
this works fine, otherwise we could update survey more often, like ath9k does.
Still only the survey for the current channel is kept.
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Target Tx power available in eeprom is for PAPRD. If PAPRD
fails, paprd scale factor needs to be detected from this
target tx power.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When the drop in Tx power for a particular mcs rate exceeds
the paprd scale factor, paprd may not work properly. Disable
paprd for any such rates.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add multiple Tx IQ cal support to improve EVM accross
different power levels.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This helper can be used in multiple places. Also make
it inline returning u8.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
PM-QOS value can be user specified via module parameter.
This patch adds few comments regarding this in the driver
code.
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is not required for USB devices.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Allow drivers or rate control algorithms to specify BlockAck session
timeout when initiating an ADDBA transaction. This is useful in cases
where maintaining persistent BA sessions does not incur any overhead.
The current timeout value of 5000 TUs is retained for all non ath9k/ath9k_htc
drivers.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch allows the pm-qos value to be user configurable by making it as
a module parameter.This will help our customers to configure the pm-qos
value according to the effect in throughput due to the DMA latency problem
which was observed in Intel Pinetrail platforms.
The tested value of '55' will be filled as the default
pm-qos-value incase the user does not specifies pm-qos value as a
module parameter.
example usage: sudo modprobe ath9k pmqos=65
Cc: Senthilkumar Balasubramanian <Senthilkumar.Balasubramanian@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Reduces the likelihood of false pulse detects in the hardware
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The EEPROM contains scale factors for the tx power, which define
the range of allowable difference between target power and training
power. If the difference is too big, PA predistortion cannot be used.
For 2.4 GHz there is only one scale factor, for 5 GHz there are
three, depending on the specific frequency range.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The EEPROM PAPRD rate mask fields only contain mask values for actual
rates in the low 25 bits. The upper bits are reserved for tx power
scale values. Add the proper mask definitions and use them before
writing the values to the register.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To be able to measure the thermal values correctly for PAPRD, we need
to send training frames before setting up the gain table for the measurement,
and then again afterwards for the actual training.
For further improvement, send training frames at MCS0 instead of 54 MBit/s
legacy. That way we can use the No-ACK flag for the transmission, which
speeds up PAPRD training in general, as the hardware won't have to
retransmit and wait for ACK timeout (was previously set to 4 * 6
transmission attempts).
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Testing shows that adjusting the slot time based on the coverage class
produces very high latencies and very low throughput on long distance links.
Adjusting only the ACK timeout and leaving the slot time at the regular
values - while technically not optimal for CSMA - works a lot better on
long links (tested with 10 km distance)
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
(u32) -1 is not particularly useful as a slottime default, so even though
the ath9k_hw default should never get used, it's better to pick something
sane here.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There's no need to have separate callbacks for pre-AR9003 vs AR9003
SREV version checks, so just merge those into one function.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
AR9280 based hardware with 3 antennas and slow antenna diversity has
not been seen in the wild and ath9k does not support that form of
antenna diversity, so remove the EEPROM ops for it.
These EEPROM ops are currently only used for setting the
AR_PHY_SWITCH_COM register, which is being done in the EEPROM specific
file already.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Also add a comment about a potential array overrun that needs to
be reviewed.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Newer chips do not need this, and maybe these register writes could have
negative side effects on newer hardware.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
wireless-testing commit 04caf86375
('ath9k: more tx setup cleanups') merged tx path code for HT vs
non-HT frames, however it did not pass the tid pointer to
ath_tx_send_normal, causing an inconsistency between AMPDU vs
non-AMPDU sequence number handling.
Fix this by always passing in the tid pointer for all QoS data frames.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The HW has to be awake when accessing registers.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The registers TBTT_TIMER ,DMA_BEACON_ALERT ,NEXT_SWBA are need to be
configured only for AP and IBSS mode.
SWBA register is used for generating software interrupts so that beacon
frames will be created by the software.DMA beacon alert register is
to indicate the hardware to DMA the contents of beacon buffer to PCU buffer
and TBTT to start transmitting the packet buffer to the base band.
Clearly these things are not needed for station/monitor mode so
remove configuring them.
Cc: doug dahlby <ddahlby@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
key4 of micentry is used, if ATH_CRYPT_CAP_MIC_COMBINED is set.
But is not cleared on key cache reset.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add support to change interface type
without bringing down the interface.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mac80211 will notify drivers when to go idle and ath9k
assumed that it would get further notifications for idle
states after a device stop() config call but as per agreed
semantics the idle state of the radio is left up to driver
after mac80211 issues the stop() callback. The driver is
resposnbile for ensuring the device remains idle after
that even between suspend / resume calls.
This fixes suspend/resume when you issue suspend and resume
twice on ath9k when ath9k_stop() was already called. We need
to put the radio to full sleep in order for resume to work
correctly.
What might seem fishy is we are turning the radio off
after resume. The reason why we do this is because we know
we should not have anything enabled after a mac80211 tells
us to stop(), if we resume and never get a start() we won't
get another stop() by mac80211 so to be safe always bring
the 802.11 device with the radio disabled after resume,
this ensures that if we suspend we already have the radio
disabled and only a start() will ever trigger it on.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Upon a failure we never call ath9k_ps_restore() on ath_radio_enable(),
this will throw off the sc->ps_usecount. When the sc->ps_usecount
is > 0 we never put the chip to full sleep. This drains battery,
and will also make the chip fail upon resume with:
ath: Starting driver with initial channel: 5745 MHz
ath: timeout (100000 us) on reg 0x7000: 0xdeadbeef & 0x00000003 != 0x00000000
This would make the chip useless upon resume.
I cannot prove this can happen but in theory it is so best to
avoid this race completely and not have users complain about
a broken device after resume.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Description by Hauke:
"If CONFIG_ATH_DEBUG=y is set ATH_DBG_WARN_ON_ONCE uses WARN_ON_ONCE and
returns something, but if CONFIG_ATH_DEBUG is not set it does not return
anything. Now ATH_DBG_WARN_ON_ONCE is used in the boolean expression in
an if case and is not returning anything and causes a compile error.
CC [M] /drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.o
/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c: In function ‘ath_isr’:
/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c:769: error: expected expression
before ‘do’
make[5]: *** [/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** [/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k] Error 2"
Reported-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The AHB bus support patchset moved the table "Known PCI ids" from base.c
to pci.c - unfortunately, MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() was not transferred.
With this fix 'modinfo ath5k' lists the alias -> pci-id lines, again.
The issue was introduced by:
commit e5b046d86f
"ath5k: Move PCI bus functions to separate file."
Signed-off-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Suspend requires the device to be in fullsleep otherwise upon
resume the device becomes unresponsive. We need to ensure
that when we want the device to go to sleep it yields to
the request, otherwise we'll have a useless devices upon
resume. Warn when changing the power fails as we need
to look into these issues.
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We should not be idle when we get the ATH9K_INT_TIM_TIMER,
otherwise its a sign of something broken in our design with
our idle state machine and mac80211. Skip these and WARN once
just in case this is triggerable.
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com>
signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It can be NULL according to docs, and logging showed it
to be NULL in practice.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The HW has to be set to FULLSLEEP mode during suspend,
when no interface has been brought up. Not doing this would
break resume, as the chip won't be powered up at all.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This results in an erroneus num_adhoc_vifs count, as the this counter
was incremented but not decremented for mesh interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The structure struct ieee80211_rx_status *rxs is no longer needed to be
passed to ath_rx_send_to_mac80211 function
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
With the current save power save implementation we assume a dtim period
of 1.This value is assigned based on a sanity check in the driver
eventhough we had not parsed it from mac80211.This patch obtains the actual
DTIM period from AP by parsing it from mac80211.Yet for handling
multicast traffic we may still have it as fixed rather than parsing it
from mac80211 .This does not breaks power save or anything as the sleep
duration is currently fixed in the driver.This patch may serve to improve
power save in the future by using dtim period for sleep duration and using
correct dtim period adhoc mode.
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
