From: Mordechay Goodstein <mordechay.goodstein@xxxxxxxxx>
This helps with congested environments reducing the conflict cost to
RTS retries only, instead of the entire BA packet.
Signed-off-by: Mordechay Goodstein <mordechay.goodstein@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx>
---
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 4347be6491e9..73b839c3cac1 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 86b2ebb5d5fb..ed7382e7ea17 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);
--
2.28.0
