FW behaviour changed and now updates driver about the used TPC
reduction in the following cases:
1. In tx response, which is used mostly for a single frame case
2. In BA notification
When tx aggregation fails with the initial rate, FW will send
to the driver BA notification and will try to transmit with the
next rate, but this time without tx power reduction. Thus, in case
of a failure with the initial rate, driver will get two BA notifications,
the first one with reduced tx power as in the LQ command and the second
one with 0 power reduction.
This patch adapts the TPC statistics according to the description above:
1. Use BA notifications instead of Tx response
2. For TPC only, drop the optimization which considers empty BA as one
MPDU. The reason is that with TPC we want to recover very quickly from
a bad power reduction and, therefore we'd like the success ratio to get
an immediate hit when failing to get a BA, so we'd switch back to a
lower or zero power reduction
Signed-off-by: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
The transport will need to use the info->driver_data
pointers. Since the op_mode has this memory hot in cache,
clear it there.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Differentiate between the cases where the skb is a large
send and the other cases.
Advertise TSO even if, at this stage, skb_gso_segment will
be called and it will do all the work.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
ilw@linux.intel.com is not available anymore.
linuxwifi@intel.com should be used instead.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
When we have holes in the BA window, there might be frames
that have been ACKed between the read and the right
pointers. This means that these frames won't be scheduled
again by the SCD and the firwmare won't see them.
This invalidates the number of frames we tell the firmware
to send. When we detect this case, tell mac80211 to close
the SP and to send an EOSP so that the firmware can be in
sync.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
The fw debug functionality is big enough to warrant
a separate file. Move existing related functions to the new file.
Signed-off-by: Golan Ben-Ami <golan.ben.ami@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
