From: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Some tests shows that using AMSDU to aggregate TCP ACKs to specific
APs will degrade the throughput on 2.4G band in 20MHz bandwidth
(< 10 Mbps, should be ~100 Mbps for 2x2). Also found that there's
barely no negative impact if we disable TX AMSDU on 2.4G to connect
to other APs. So it seems like we can just tell mac80211 to not to
aggregate MSDUs when transmitting on 2.4G band.
Note that we still can TX AMSDU on 5G band and benefit from it by
having 50 ~ 70 Mbps throughput improvement.
Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/mac80211.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/mac80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/mac80211.c
index 6fc33e11d08c..21b56db16916 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/mac80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/mac80211.c
@@ -592,6 +592,20 @@ static int rtw_ops_ampdu_action(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
return 0;
}
+static bool rtw_ops_can_aggregate_in_amsdu(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
+ struct sk_buff *head,
+ struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+ struct rtw_dev *rtwdev = hw->priv;
+ struct rtw_hal *hal = &rtwdev->hal;
+
+ /* we don't want to enable TX AMSDU on 2.4G */
+ if (hal->current_band_type == RTW_BAND_2G)
+ return false;
+
+ return true;
+}
+
static void rtw_ops_sw_scan_start(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
const u8 *mac_addr)
@@ -787,6 +801,7 @@ const struct ieee80211_ops rtw_ops = {
.sta_remove = rtw_ops_sta_remove,
.set_key = rtw_ops_set_key,
.ampdu_action = rtw_ops_ampdu_action,
+ .can_aggregate_in_amsdu = rtw_ops_can_aggregate_in_amsdu,
.sw_scan_start = rtw_ops_sw_scan_start,
.sw_scan_complete = rtw_ops_sw_scan_complete,
.mgd_prepare_tx = rtw_ops_mgd_prepare_tx,
--
2.17.1
