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Felix Fietkau e239d85918 ath9k: implement coverage class support
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-15 17:03:00 -05:00
Felix Fietkau 0005baf4a3 ath9k: cleanup slot time and ack/cts timeout handling
Previously ath9k left the initialization of slot timing and ACK/CTS
timeout to the mode specific initvals. This does not handle short vs
long slot in 2.4 GHz and uses a rather strange value for the 2.4 GHz
ACK timeout (64 usec).
This patch uses the proper ath9k_hw functions for setting slot time and
timeouts and also implements the switch between short and long slot
time in 2.4 GHz

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-15 17:02:08 -05:00
Sujith 5e4ea1f0ed ath9k: Fix panic on driver load
The device has to be marked as invalid before
registering the ISR. HW initialization takes place
after the ISR has been registered, and the invalid
flag is eventually cleared in the ->stop() callback.

Reported-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-14 18:16:55 -05:00
Sujith 199afd9d89 ath9k: Fix monitor mode handling
mac80211 passes appropriate flags indicating whether
monitor mode is being used. Use this to set the HW opmode.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:02:06 -05:00
Sujith 1395d3f00a ath9k: Add debugfs file for RX errors
This file can be used to track frame reception errors.
PHY error counts are also added.

Location: ath9k/phy#/recv

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:02:06 -05:00
Sujith cc9c378aa5 ath9k: Fix queue handling
The TX queues have to be stopped during an
internal reset. Not handling this would result
in packet loss - fix this.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:02:06 -05:00
Sujith 285f2ddae0 ath9k: Cleanup init/deinit routines
The device initialization and termination functions
were messy and convoluted. Introduce helper functions
to clarify init_softc() and simplify things in general.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:02:05 -05:00
Sujith 1b04b9308e ath9k: Cleanup Powersave flags
sc_flags has slowly become a kitchen sink over time.
Move powersave related flags to a separate variable.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:02:05 -05:00
Sujith 556242049c ath9k: Add new file init.c
Move initialization/de-initialization related
code to this file.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:02:05 -05:00
Sujith 0fca65c1c0 ath9k: Add a new file for GPIO
Move all LED/RFKILL/BTCOEX related code
to gpio.c

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 13:57:59 -05:00
Lukáš Turek 6e08d228b6 ath5k: Implement mac80211 callback set_coverage_class
The callback sets slot time as specified in IEEE 802.11-2007 section
17.3.8.6 (for 20MHz channels only for now) and raises ACK and CTS
timeouts accordingly. The values are persistent, they are restored after
device reset.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Turek <8an@praha12.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 13:50:08 -05:00
Lukáš Turek 3578e6ebb3 ath5k: Reimplement clock rate to usec conversion
The original code was correct in 802.11a mode only, 802.11b/g uses
different clock rates. The new code uses values taken from FreeBSD HAL
and should be correct for all modes including turbo modes.

The former rate calculation was used by slope coefficient calculation
function ath5k_hw_write_ofdm_timings. However, this function requires
the 802.11a values even in 802.11g mode. Thus the use of
ath5k_hw_htoclock was replaced by hardcoded values. Possibly the slope
coefficient calculation is not related to clock rate at all.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Turek <8an@praha12.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 13:50:08 -05:00
Lukáš Turek e1aa369ec8 ath5k: Fix functions for getting/setting slot time
Functions ath5k_hw_get_slot_time and ath5k_hw_set_slot_time were
converting microseconds to clocks only for AR5210, although it's needed
for all supported devices. The conversion was moved outside the
hardware-specific branches.

The original code also limited minimum slot time to 9, while turbo modes
use 6, this was fixed too.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Turek <8an@praha12.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 13:50:07 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 14acdde6e5 ath9k: re-enable ps by default for new single chip families
The newer single chip hardware family of chipsets have not been
experiencing issues with power saving set by default with recent
fixes merged (even into stable). The remaining issues are only
reported with AR5416 and since enabling PS by default can increase
power savings considerably best to take advantage of that feature
as this has been tested properly.

For more details on this issue see the bug report:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14267

We leave AR5416 with PS disabled by default, that seems to require
some more work.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>
Cc: Justin P. Mattock  <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Cc: Kristoffer Ericson <kristoffer.ericson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 13:43:54 -05:00
John W. Linville 4f9b2a7dea Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
Conflicts:
	net/mac80211/iface.c
2010-01-05 17:18:59 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 359207c687 ath5k: Fix eeprom checksum check for custom sized eeproms
Commit 8bf3d79bc401ca417ccf9fc076d3295d1a71dbf5 enabled EEPROM
checksum checks to avoid bogus bug reports but failed to address
updating the code to consider devices with custom EEPROM sizes.
Devices with custom sized EEPROMs have the upper limit size stuffed
in the EEPROM. Use this as the upper limit instead of the static
default size. In case of a checksum error also provide back the
max size and whether or not this was the default size or a custom
one. If the EEPROM is busted we add a failsafe check to ensure
we don't loop forever or try to read bogus areas of hardware.

This closes bug 14874

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14874

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: David Quan <david.quan@atheros.com>
Cc: Stephen Beahm <stephenbeahm@comcast.net>
Reported-by: Joshua Covington <joshuacov@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-04 16:11:59 -05:00
Ming Lei 13bda12250 ath9k: fix ito64
The unit of sizeof() is byte instead of bit, so fix it.
The patch can fix debug output of some dma_addr_t variables.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-04 16:09:47 -05:00
Dominik Geyer 4ef250114f ath9k: Fix Kconfig depends for ATH9K_DEBUGFS
Add missing DEBUG_FS dependency for ATH9K_DEBUGFS in ath9k's Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Dominik D. Geyer <dominik.geyer@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-04 16:09:47 -05:00
John W. Linville 891dc5e737 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/libertas/scan.c
2009-12-30 15:25:08 -05:00
Johannes Berg 1ed32e4fc8 mac80211: remove struct ieee80211_if_init_conf
All its members (vif, mac_addr, type) are now available
in the vif struct directly, so we can pass that instead
of the conf struct. I generated this patch (except the
mac80211 and header file changes) with this semantic
patch:

@@
identifier conf, fn, hw;
type tp;
@@
tp fn(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
-struct ieee80211_if_init_conf *conf)
+struct ieee80211_vif *vif)
{
<...
(
-conf->type
+vif->type
|
-conf->mac_addr
+vif->addr
|
-conf->vif
+vif
)
...>
}

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28 16:55:07 -05:00
Felix Fietkau 5b479a076d ath9k: fix missed error codes in the tx status check
My previous change added in:

 commit 815833e7ec
    ath9k: fix tx status reporting

was not checking all possible tx error conditions. This could possibly
lead to throughput issues due to slow rate control adaption or missed
retransmissions of failed A-MPDU frames.

This patch adds a mask for all possible error conditions and uses it
in the xmit ok check.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Björn Smedman <bjorn.smedman@venatech.se>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28 16:20:03 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 8b685ba9de ath9k: wake hardware during AMPDU TX actions
AMDPDU actions poke hardware for TX operation, as such
we want to turn hardware on for these actions. AMDPU RX operations
do not require hardware on as nothing is done in hardware for
those actions. Without this we cannot guarantee hardware has
been programmed correctly for each AMPDU TX action.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28 16:20:02 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 5f70a88f63 ath9k: wake hardware for interface IBSS/AP/Mesh removal
When we remove a IBSS/AP/Mesh interface we stop DMA
but to do this we should ensure hardware is on. Awaken
the device prior to these calls. This should ensure
DMA is stopped upon suspend and plain device removal.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28 16:20:01 -05:00
Sujith 3867cf6a8c ath9k: fix suspend by waking device prior to stop
Ensure the device is awake prior to trying to tell hardware
to stop it. Impact of not doing this is we can likely leave
the device in an undefined state likely causing issues with
suspend and resume. This patch ensures harware is where it
should be prior to suspend.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28 16:20:00 -05:00
Tobias Klauser 83bd11a06d ath9k: Storage class should be before const qualifier
The C99 specification states in section 6.11.5:

The placement of a storage-class specifier other than at the beginning
of the declaration specifiers in a declaration is an obsolescent
feature.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28 16:19:55 -05:00
Johannes Berg 671adc93b6 wireless: remove remaining qual code
This removes the remaining users of the rx status
'qual' field and the field itself.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28 16:19:45 -05:00
Bob Copeland 242ab7ad68 ath5k: fix SWI calibration interrupt storm
The calibration period is now invoked by triggering a software
interrupt from within the ISR by ath5k_hw_calibration_poll()
instead of via a timer.

However, the calibration interval isn't initialized before
interrupts are enabled, so we can have a situation where an
interrupt occurs before the interval is assigned, so the
interval is actually negative.  As a result, the ISR will
arm a software interrupt to schedule the tasklet, and then
rearm it when the SWI is processed, and so on, leading to a
softlockup at modprobe time.

Move the initialization order around so the calibration interval
is set before interrupts are active.  Another possible fix
is to schedule the tasklet directly from the poll routine,
but I think there are additional plans for the SWI.

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28 16:13:47 -05:00
John W. Linville ea1e4b8420 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2009-12-28 15:09:11 -05:00
Sujith b6ce5c3300 ath9k: Fix TX poll routine
Disable the TX hang monitoring routine when doing a scan.
Monitoring for a hung situation is not really necessary during
a scan run.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-22 13:56:14 -05:00
Sujith 05c78d6d3e ath9k: Remove ANI lock
Cancel/restart the ANI timer directly.
With this patch, the ANI lock can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-22 13:56:12 -05:00
Sujith 0ce024cbcd ath9k: Clarify Interrupt mitigation
ath9k currently supports only RX interrupt
mitigation.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-22 13:56:10 -05:00
Stefan Seyfried 5b6e2f12ed ar9170usb: add Sphairon Homelink 1202 USB ID
Signed-off-by: Stefan Seyfried <seife@sphairon.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-22 13:56:03 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez c755ad34ab ath9k: add MCS rate index back to debufs rcstat
Speaking of 802.11n rates in terms of Mbps doesn't really developers
and is just useful for users. To aid debugging add the MCS index back
and an HT20/HT40 mode.

New screenshot:

    HT    MCS   Rate    Success    Retries   XRetries        PER
                6.0:          0          0          0          0
                9.0:          0          0          0          0
               12.0:         26        260          0         49
               18.0:         80        804          2         58
               24.0:          0          0          0          0
               36.0:          0          0          0          0
               48.0:          0          0          0          0
               54.0:          0          0          0          0
  HT20      0   6.5:       1368      13660          0         48
  HT20      1  13.0:          0          0          0          0
  HT20      2  19.5:          0          0          0          0
  HT20      3  26.0:          0          0          0          0
  HT20      4  39.0:          0          0          0          0
  HT20      5  52.0:         55        578         14         43
  HT20      6  58.5:         29        306          8         69
  HT20      7  65.0:         21        210          0         67
  HT20      8  13.0:         21        210          0         56
  HT20      9  26.0:          0          0          0          0
  HT20     10  39.0:          0          0          0          0
  HT20     11  52.0:          0          0          0          0
  HT20     12  78.0:          0          0          0          0
  HT20     13 104.0:          0          0          0          0
  HT20     14 117.0:          0          0          0          0
  HT20     15 130.0:         27        290         10         55
  HT40      0  13.5:         79        687         16         17
  HT40      1  27.5:         60        409         10         17
  HT40      2  40.5:         56        381         21         25
  HT40      3  54.0:         44        302         21         18
  HT40      4  81.5:         19        171          2         14
  HT40      5 108.0:          0          0          0          0
  HT40      6 121.5:          0          0          0          0
  HT40      7 135.0:          0          0          0          0
  HT40      7 150.0:          0          0          0          0
  HT40      8  27.0:          0          0          0          0
  HT40      9  54.0:          0          0          0          0
  HT40     10  81.0:          0          0          0          0
  HT40     11 108.0:         11        100          0         18
  HT40     12 162.0:         23        200          0         22
  HT40     13 216.0:         61        580          0         35
  HT40     14 243.0:         37        271          0         66
  HT40     15 270.0:         65        217          2         73
  HT40     15 300.0:          0          0          0          0

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-22 13:55:56 -05:00
Christian Lamparter 7dffb55b8a ar9170: fix AC_VIDEO txop parameter
This patch fixes a rather embarrassing typo.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21 18:39:05 -05:00
Christian Lamparter 07bc54575b ar9170: small misc changes
This patch aggregates a bunch of small random changes
that won't fit really anywhere else properly.

1. move tid-locating macro into a separate function.

2. remove redundant NULL check.

3. add modulation mask definition

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21 18:39:03 -05:00
Christian Lamparter 15b098bbf7 ar9170: remove redundant frame flags
The flags in question were once useful for debugging.
Time has passed and now they do nothing more than
duplicating txinfo->flags.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21 18:39:02 -05:00
Christian Lamparter 53a76b58b6 ar9170: improve network latency
AR9170 has the bad habit of choking when traffic builds up.
Tests have shown that this can partially be attributed to
a huge buildup of backlogged frames.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21 18:39:00 -05:00
Christian Lamparter 5e0ec31652 ar9170: remove dead definitions
This patch removes dead infrastructure which was meant
for an out-of-tree rate control algorithm.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21 18:38:58 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 411132628f ath9k_hw: remove unused ath9k_hw_devname() and ath9k_hw_probe()
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21 18:38:57 -05:00
Sujith 2ab81d4a9a ath9k: Stop ANI when doing a reset
The MIB counters are disabled when doing a chip reset.
Since ANI depends on the MIB registers for its operation, relying
on the contents of said registers during HW reset results in sub-optimal
performance.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21 11:32:20 -05:00
Sujith e8009e9850 ath9k: Fix TX queue draining
When TX DMA termination has failed, the HW has to be reset
completely. Doing a fast channel change in this case is insufficient.
Also, change the debug level of a couple of messages to FATAL.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21 11:32:19 -05:00
Sujith 17b182e3db ath9k: Fix bug in assigning sequence number
The internal, driver-specific maintenance of sequence
numbers is applicable only for HT frames.

Also, remove comments that are not relevant anymore.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21 11:32:17 -05:00
Benoit Papillault 4d91f9f373 ath9k: Last fix for TX software padding.
First, we copy/paste the padding stuff from ath9k_tx to ath_tx_cabq since it
needs to same kind of padding, but for internally generated beacons.
Next, software padding done on TX needs to be removed before calling
ieee80211_tx_status. The code was already there in ath_tx_complete but it
was wrong. Fix it by using ath9k_cmn_padpos. This later code has been
tested by sending packets to a monitor interface and reading packets from the
same interface.

Signed-off-by: Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21 11:32:00 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 512414b0be ath5k: enable EEPROM checksum check
Without this we have no gaurantee of the integrity of the
EEPROM and are likely to encounter a lot of bogus bug reports
due to actual issues on the EEPROM. With the EEPROM checksum
check in place we can easily rule those issues out.

If you run patch during a revert *you* have a card with a busted
EEPROM and only older kernel will support that concoction. This
patch is a trade off between not accepitng bogus EEPROMs and
avoiding bogus bug reports allowing developers to focus instead
on real concrete issues.

If stable keeps bogus bug reports because of a possibly busted EEPROM
feel free to apply this there too.

Tested on an AR5414

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: jirislaby@gmail.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: rjw@sisk.pl
Cc: me@bobcopeland.com
Cc: david.quan@atheros.com
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-10 16:09:50 -05:00
Shahar Or 6a213afd05 ath5k: add support for Dell Vostro A860 LED
Adds support for the WiFi activity LED on the Dell Vostro A860 laptop.

Signed-off-by: Shahar Or <shahar@shahar-or.co.il>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-07 16:59:23 -05:00
Felix Fietkau 815833e7ec ath9k: fix tx status reporting
This patch fixes a bug in ath9k's tx status check, which
caused mac80211 to consider regularly transmitted unicast frames
as un-acked.
When checking the ts_status field for errors, it needs to be masked
with ATH9K_TXERR_FILT, because this field also contains other fields
like ATH9K_TX_ACKED.
Without this patch, AP mode is pretty much unusable, as hostapd
checks the ACK status for the frames that it injects.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-07 16:54:59 -05:00
Gabor Juhos a9a29ce674 ath9k: enable 2GHz band only if the device supports it
Currently, the 2GHz band is enabled unconditionally, even if the device
does not support it.

Changes-licensed-under: ISC
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-04 14:16:23 -05:00
Felix Fietkau a830df0714 ath9k: separate debugfs support from CONFIG_ATH_DEBUG
In my setups, ath9k's debugfs files are most of the time much more
useful than the messages generated by enabling CONFIG_ATH_DEBUG along
with the right debug flags.
Since CONFIG_ATH_DEBUG comes with a noticeable overhead on embedded
systems, this patch makes it possible to use the debugfs files without
that option.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-28 15:05:04 -05:00
Vivek Natarajan 94db29368a ath9k: Ensure a fair beacon distribution in IBSS mode.
Update the beacon queue parameters with best effort queue parameters for
IBSS mode. This reduces the number of beacons generated by ath9k and
ensures a fair beacon distribution when there are multiple IBSS stations.
Also CWmin is quadrupled to achieve the expected percentage of
distribution.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-28 15:04:52 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez f4709fdf68 ath9k: Fix maximum tx fifo settings for single stream devices
Atheros single stream AR9285 and AR9271 have half the PCU TX FIFO
buffer size of that of dual stream devices. Dual stream devices
have a max PCU TX FIFO size of 8 KB while single stream devices
have 4 KB. Single stream devices have an issue though and require
hardware only to use half of the amount of its capable PCU TX FIFO
size, 2 KB and this requires a change in software.

Technically a change would not have been required (except for frame
burst considerations of 128 bytes) if these devices would have been
able to use the full 4 KB of the PCU TX FIFO size but our systems
engineers recommend 2 KB to be used only. We enforce this through
software by reducing the max frame triggger level to 2 KB.

Fixing the max frame trigger level should then have a few benefits:

  * The PER will now be adjusted as designed for underruns when the
    max trigger level is reached. This should help alleviate the
    bus as the rate control algorithm chooses a slower rate which
    should ensure frames are transmitted properly under high system
    bus load.

  * The poll we use on our TX queues should now trigger and work
    as designed for single stream devices. The hardware passes
    data from each TX queue on the PCU TX FIFO queue respecting each
    queue's priority. The new trigger level ensures this seeding of
    the PCU TX FIFO queue occurs as designed which could mean avoiding
    false resets and actually reseting hw correctly when a TX queue
    is indeed stuck.

  * Some undocumented / unsupported behaviour could have been triggered
    when the max trigger level level was being set to 4 KB on single
    stream devices. Its not clear what this issue was to me yet.

Cc: Kyungwan Nam <kyungwan.nam@atheros.com>
Cc: Bennyam Malavazi <bennyam.malavazi@atheros.com>
Cc: Stephen Chen <stephen.chen@atheros.com>
Cc: Shan Palanisamy <shan.palanisamy@atheros.com>
Cc: Paul Shaw <paul.shaw@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-28 15:04:52 -05:00