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Jonas Jelonek 7f3a6f5dd2 ath9k: switch to rate table based lookup
This patch changes mac80211 rate control for the ath9k driver.  The rate lookup
per packet is changed from legacy usage of ieee80211_get_tx_rates() to the new
rate table based lookup in struct ieee80211_sta->rates.

The most recent rate control API, introduced with commit 0d528d85c5
("mac80211: improve the rate control API"), allows drivers to directly get
rates from ieee80211_sta->rates. This is not used by every driver yet, the
translation/merge is currently performed in ieee80211_get_tx_rates.  This patch
changes the behaviour and avoids the call to ieee80211_get_tx_rates and
subsequent calls. ath9k now directly reads rates from sta->rates into its rate
table. Cause ath9k does not expect rate selection in SKB->CB, the table merge
does not consider rate array in SKB->CB except for the first entry (used for
probing).

Tested with a 8devices Rambutan with QCA9558 SoC by performing two runs, one
without the patch and one with. Generated traffic between AP and multiple STAs
in each run, measured throughput and captured rc_stats.  Comparison of both
runs resulted in same rate selection and no performance loss or other negative
effects.

Co-developed-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas.huehn@hs-nordhausen.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas.huehn@hs-nordhausen.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonas Jelonek <jelonek.jonas@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@quicinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211128090753.958-1-jelonek.jonas@gmail.com
2021-12-07 17:16:16 +02:00
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drivers ath9k: switch to rate table based lookup 2021-12-07 17:16:16 +02:00
fs for-5.16-rc1-tag 2021-11-18 12:41:14 -08:00
include regmap: Allow regmap_update_bits() to be offloaded with no bus 2021-11-18 17:50:18 -08:00
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Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
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MAINTAINERS Networking fixes for 5.16-rc2, including fixes from bpf, mac80211. 2021-11-18 12:54:24 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.16-rc1 2021-11-14 13:56:52 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.