4.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Lorenzo Bianconi <[email protected]> [ Upstream commit 0d45d3fe42efc76b6c4f5a62f8d110c7a2e6f83f ] According to 802.11-2007 17.3.8.6 (slot time), the slot time should be increased by 3 us * coverage class. Taking into account coverage class in slot time configuration allows to increase by an order of magnitude the throughput on a 4Km link in a noisy environment Tested-by: Luca Bisti <[email protected]> Tested-by: Gaetano Catalli <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <[email protected]> Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76x2_init.c | 3 +++ drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76x2_main.c | 3 +-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76x2_init.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76x2_init.c @@ -482,7 +482,10 @@ void mt76x2_set_tx_ackto(struct mt76x2_d { u8 ackto, sifs, slottime = dev->slottime; + /* As defined by IEEE 802.11-2007 17.3.8.6 */ slottime += 3 * dev->coverage_class; + mt76_rmw_field(dev, MT_BKOFF_SLOT_CFG, + MT_BKOFF_SLOT_CFG_SLOTTIME, slottime); sifs = mt76_get_field(dev, MT_XIFS_TIME_CFG, MT_XIFS_TIME_CFG_OFDM_SIFS); --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76x2_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76x2_main.c @@ -247,8 +247,7 @@ mt76x2_bss_info_changed(struct ieee80211 int slottime = info->use_short_slot ? 9 : 20; dev->slottime = slottime; - mt76_rmw_field(dev, MT_BKOFF_SLOT_CFG, - MT_BKOFF_SLOT_CFG_SLOTTIME, slottime); + mt76x2_set_tx_ackto(dev); } mutex_unlock(&dev->mutex);
