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iwlwifi: ampdu_factor for iwl-6000 is set to 0

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Hi,

Recently I started using kernel 3.19 from Ubuntu ppa and I noticed a big drop in Wifi throughput. After some investigation I found that my router was reporting the AMPDU factor changed from 3(in 3.18) to 0(in 3.19): cat /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy1/netdev:wlan1/stations/c4:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx/ht_capa:
ht supported
cap: 0x1066
        HT20/HT40
        Dynamic SM Power Save
        RX HT20 SGI
        RX HT40 SGI
        No RX STBC
        Max AMSDU length: 3839 bytes
        DSSS/CCK HT40
ampdu factor/density: 3/5
MCS mask: ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
MCS tx params: 1

ht supported
cap: 0x1066
        HT20/HT40
        Dynamic SM Power Save
        RX HT20 SGI
        RX HT40 SGI
        No RX STBC
        Max AMSDU length: 3839 bytes
        DSSS/CCK HT40
ampdu factor/density: 0/5
MCS mask: ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
MCS tx params: 1

In my setup this means a 50% drop in downstream throughput(from 160Mbit/s to 80Mbit/s)

  I tracked down the offending commit and it seems this is it:
iwlwifi: change max HT and VHT A-MPDU exponent c064ddf318aa51647a30108f7cd151c208c62eef
  A new mechanism was created to have per device ampd_factor:
- ht_info->ampdu_factor = IEEE80211_HT_MAX_AMPDU_64K;
+ ht_info->ampdu_factor = cfg->max_ht_ampdu_exponent;

however the max_ht_ampdu_exponent is not set for any of the iwl-6000 devices(including mine Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6235)

#define IWL_DEVICE_6035						\
	.fw_name_pre = IWL6030_FW_PRE,				\
	.ucode_api_max = IWL6035_UCODE_API_MAX,			\
	.ucode_api_ok = IWL6035_UCODE_API_OK,			\
	.ucode_api_min = IWL6035_UCODE_API_MIN,			\
	.device_family = IWL_DEVICE_FAMILY_6030,		\
	.max_inst_size = IWL60_RTC_INST_SIZE,			\
	.max_data_size = IWL60_RTC_DATA_SIZE,			\
	.nvm_ver = EEPROM_6030_EEPROM_VERSION,		\
	.nvm_calib_ver = EEPROM_6030_TX_POWER_VERSION,	\
	.base_params = &iwl6000_g2_base_params,			\
	.eeprom_params = &iwl6000_eeprom_params,		\
	.led_mode = IWL_LED_RF_STATE

Since the original value of IEEE80211_HT_MAX_AMPDU_64K I would suggest adding it to some iwl-6000 devices. I did not submit any patches because I have no idea if there are device which would not support this feature, however it worked before with default value set to IEEE80211_HT_MAX_AMPDU_64K so I guess it must be supported.

Regards,
Valentin
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