RX Stress tests of unidirectional bulk traffic with
bitrates of up to 220Mbit/s have revealed that the
fatal-event recovery logic [which was solely triggered
by an out-of-rx-buffer situation] is too aggressive.
The new method now "pings" the device and then
decides - based on the response - whenever
a restart is needed or not.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch changes the initial aMPDU density and
factor settings to match those of Otus.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch imports all shared header changes
from carl9170fw.git.
* add some strategic __aligned(4).
This allows the compiler generate optimized code for
architectures which can't access (unaligned/packed)
data efficiently.
("ath9k_hw: optimize all descriptor access functions")
* add a forgotten __CARL9170FW__ ifdef around
a private firmware-internal struct.
* GET_VAL macro helper
Very useful for extracting data out of the
bit-packed PHY registers.
* cosmetic changes
e.g.: _CCA_MINCCA_ to just _CCA_MIN_.
* version bump 1.8.8.3 -> 1.9.0.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch continues where the previous commit:
"carl9170: fix async command buffer leak"
left off.
Similar to carl9170_reboot/carl9170_powersave, the
carl9170_async_regwrite* macros would leak the
temporary command buffer, if __carl9170_exec_cmd
fails to upload the command to the device.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If __carl9170_exec_cmd fails to upload an asynchronous
command to the device, the functions: carl9170_reboot
and carl9170_powersave will leak the temporary command
assembly buffer.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In the past, carl9170 has been plagued by mysterious
ghosts.
e.g.:
wlan4: deauthenticated from 02:04:d8:3c:ac:c1 (Reason: 0)
Apparently, the AP sent us a bogus deauthentication
notification. But upon closer inspection the
"management frame" turned out to be a corrupted
scrap of an unsuccessful A-MPDU.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The total/fatal error bit was erroneously prefixed
with AR9170_RX_ERROR instead of AR9170_RX_STATUS.
Luckily, the hardware specification confirmed that
the 0x80 flag will never be set for mac->error.
So, it was always just a dead branch.
This patch also imports the latest version of
shared wlan.h header from the firmware git.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch replaces several identical frame drop
paths with a single shared rx frame error handler.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The hardware rx-filter was essentially disabled, because
of a serve, yet unidentifiable problem with iwlagn.
Due to these circumstances the driver and mac80211 were
left with the job of filtering.
This is very unfortunate and has proven to be expensive
in terms of latency, memory and load.
Therefore the new 1.8.8.3 firmware introduces a flexible
filtering infrastructure which allows the driver to
offload some of the checks (FCS & PLCP crc check,
RA match, control frame filter, etc...) whenever possible.
Note:
This patch also includes all changes to the
shared headers files since the inclusion.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes a bug in the driver which was
exposed by CONFIG_USB_DEBUG:
"usb 1-1.6.3: BOGUS urb flags, 40 --> 0"
The transfer flag "URB_ZERO_PACKET" is only valid
for bulk urbs.
Reported-by: André Erdmann
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
David Miller complained about the driver's excessive use
of variables in __packed structs. While I did not fully
agree with his sole "performance" argument on all accounts.
I do see some room for improvement in hot-paths on
architectures without an efficient access to unaligned
elements.
This first patch (dare I say?) optimizes an important tx
hot-path in the driver: carl9170_tx_prepare.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Broadcom's Windows driver for the 4313 advertises
an ampdu density of 7 => 16 us. The AR9170 MAC on
the other hand only supports densities up to 8 us.
This patch removes the noisy WARN_ON, because
there is nothing we can do about it.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
tx_ampdu_upload was not decreased when an a-MPDU
frame had to be kicked out from the tx_pending
queues.
This broke ampdu aggregation, because the scheduler
waits until tx_ampdu_upload drops to zero, before
making the next aggregate.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch removes some cruft, which survived
the RFC review phase.
Originally, carl9170_tx_ampdu_queue erroneously
dropped a lot of frames. As a result the ampdu
scheduler bogged down quite frequently and the
affected BA session timed out.
However this bug has been fixed and the WA and
its debugfs counter is no longer useful.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
"The convention seems to be angle brackets around
URLS in Kconfig."
-- Finn Thain (to update web addresses in the kernel)
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
802.11n-2009 demands in 11.2.1: "
When a STA enters normal (non-APSD) PS mode, any downlink
Block ACK agreement without an associated schedule is
suspended for the duration of this PS mode."
The operative word is "suspended" and not terminated.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is a obvious bug, skb_queue_walk does not
work if the iterator gets removed from the queue.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The driver has a set of different initvals for 20 MHz
vs dynamic HT2040 operation. Because we can't change
some of the registers "in-flight", the driver needs to
perform a warm reset.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Don't mark the device as completely dead just yet.
If all goes to plan and carl9170_reboot succeeds
then we can skip the expensive userspace-driven
reinitialization anyway.
And if it doesn't and carl9170_reboot fails,
then carl9170_usb_cancel_urbs will do the
necessary steps.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch prevents the tasklet code from
interfering while the firmware is down for
an unscheduled maintenance.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
According to Atheros, chain 1 is not connected.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Ever since carl9170 gained support to read the noisefloor,
the reported noisefloor level was pretty poor.
Initially I assumed that something was wrong in the PHY
setup and it would be impossible to fix without any
guidances. But this was not the case. In fact the nf
readings were correct and the thing that was broken
was the "simple" sign extension code!
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The eeprom provides a mask for all present rx chains.
Why not use it instead of the generic initval default?
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch is loosely based on an ath9k patch called:
"ath9k_hw: sync initvals for ar9001 and ar9002 with Atheros"
It includes the following changes/fixes:
- AGC setting improvements
- timing changes for improved performance
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
