From: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@xxxxxxxxx>
When building tx command, always set TX_CMD_FLAG_PROT_REQUIRE_MSK
for 5000 series and up.
Without setting this bit the firmware will not examine the RTS/CTS setting
and thus not send traffic with the appropriate protection. RTS/CTS is is
required for HT traffic in a noisy environment where, without this setting,
connections will stall on some hardware as documented in the patch that
initially attempted to address this:
commit 1152dcc28c66a74b5b3f1a3ede0aa6729bfd48e4
Author: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jan 15 13:42:58 2010 -0800
iwlwifi: Fix throughput stall issue in HT mode for 5000
Similar to 6000 and 1000 series, RTS/CTS is the recommended
protection mechanism for 5000 series in HT mode based on the HW design.
Using RTS/CTS will better protect the inner exchange from interference,
especially in highly-congested environment, it also prevent uCode encounter
TX FIFO underrun and other HT mode related performance issues.
For 3945 and 4965, different flags are used for RTS/CTS or CTS-to-Self
protection.
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-hcmd.c | 6 +-----
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-hcmd.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-hcmd.c
index 44ef5d9..01658cf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-hcmd.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-hcmd.c
@@ -212,11 +212,7 @@ static void iwlagn_chain_noise_reset(struct iwl_priv *priv)
static void iwlagn_rts_tx_cmd_flag(struct ieee80211_tx_info *info,
__le32 *tx_flags)
{
- if ((info->control.rates[0].flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_USE_RTS_CTS) ||
- (info->control.rates[0].flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_USE_CTS_PROTECT))
- *tx_flags |= TX_CMD_FLG_RTS_CTS_MSK;
- else
- *tx_flags &= ~TX_CMD_FLG_RTS_CTS_MSK;
+ *tx_flags |= TX_CMD_FLG_RTS_CTS_MSK;
}
/* Calc max signal level (dBm) among 3 possible receivers */
--
1.7.0.4
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