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rtl8xxxu: Improve the A-MPDU retransmission rate with RTS/CTS protection

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The A-MPDU TX retransmission rate is always high (> 20%) even in a very
clean environment. However, the vendor driver retransimission rate is
< 10% in the same test bed. The difference is the vendor driver starts
the A-MPDU TXOP with initial RTS/CTS handshake which is observed in the
air capture and the TX descriptor. Since the driver does not know how
many frames will be aggregated and the estimated duration, forcing the
RTS/CTS protection for A-MPDU helps to lower the retransmission rate
from > 20% to ~12% in the same test setup with the vendor driver.

Signed-off-by: Chris Chiu <chris.chiu@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211215085819.729345-1-chris.chiu@canonical.com
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Chris Chiu 2021-12-15 16:58:19 +08:00 committed by Kalle Valo
parent c1afb26727
commit b250200e2e
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c
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@ -4859,7 +4859,7 @@ rtl8xxxu_fill_txdesc_v1(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr,
* rts_rate is zero if RTS/CTS or CTS to SELF are not enabled
*/
tx_desc->txdw4 |= cpu_to_le32(rts_rate << TXDESC32_RTS_RATE_SHIFT);
if (rate_flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_USE_RTS_CTS) {
if (ampdu_enable || (rate_flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_USE_RTS_CTS)) {
tx_desc->txdw4 |= cpu_to_le32(TXDESC32_RTS_CTS_ENABLE);
tx_desc->txdw4 |= cpu_to_le32(TXDESC32_HW_RTS_ENABLE);
} else if (rate_flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_USE_CTS_PROTECT) {
@ -4930,7 +4930,7 @@ rtl8xxxu_fill_txdesc_v2(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr,
/*
* rts_rate is zero if RTS/CTS or CTS to SELF are not enabled
*/
if (rate_flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_USE_RTS_CTS) {
if (ampdu_enable || (rate_flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_USE_RTS_CTS)) {
tx_desc40->txdw3 |= cpu_to_le32(TXDESC40_RTS_CTS_ENABLE);
tx_desc40->txdw3 |= cpu_to_le32(TXDESC40_HW_RTS_ENABLE);
} else if (rate_flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_USE_CTS_PROTECT) {