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| author | Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> | 2010-06-18 22:33:17 +0400 |
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| committer | Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> | 2010-06-26 01:34:45 +0400 |
| commit | 062bee448bd539580ef9f64efe50fdfe04eeb103 (patch) | |
| tree | 76dd74bee15aa4803bb031076c12147e31bcdb14 /drivers/net | |
| parent | d1e89f37de2845db364ef6d67586cd882f86b557 (diff) | |
| download | linux-062bee448bd539580ef9f64efe50fdfe04eeb103.tar.xz | |
iwlwifi: set TX_CMD_FLAG_PROT_REQUIRE_MSK in tx_flag
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@intel.com>
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@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | 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 44ef5d93befc..01658cf82d39 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 */ |