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[ Upstream commitea2274ab0b] When frames are sent over the air, the device always applies the data rates in descending order. The driver assumed Minstrel also provided rate in descending order. However, in some cases, Minstrel can a choose a fallback rate greater than the primary rate. In this case, the two rates was inverted, the device try highest rate first and we get many retries. Since the device always applies rates in descending order, the workaround is to drop the rate when it higher than its predecessor in the rate list. Thus [ 4, 5, 3 ] becomes [ 4, 3 ]. This patch has been tested in isolated room with a series of attenuators. Here are the Minstrel statistics with 80dBm of attenuation: Without the fix: best ____________rate__________ ____statistics___ _____last____ ______sum-of________ mode guard # rate [name idx airtime max_tp] [avg(tp) avg(prob)] [retry|suc|att] [#success | #attempts] HT20 LGI 1 S MCS0 0 1477 5.6 5.2 82.7 3 0 0 3 4 HT20 LGI 1 MCS1 1 738 10.6 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 1 HT20 LGI 1 D MCS2 2 492 14.9 13.5 81.5 5 0 0 5 9 HT20 LGI 1 C MCS3 3 369 18.8 17.6 84.3 5 0 0 76 96 HT20 LGI 1 A P MCS4 4 246 25.4 22.4 79.5 5 0 0 11268 14026 HT20 LGI 1 B S MCS5 5 185 30.7 19.7 57.7 5 8 9 3918 9793 HT20 LGI 1 MCS6 6 164 33.0 0.0 0.0 5 0 0 6 102 HT20 LGI 1 MCS7 7 148 35.1 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 44 With the fix: best ____________rate__________ ____statistics___ _____last____ ______sum-of________ mode guard # rate [name idx airtime max_tp] [avg(tp) avg(prob)] [retry|suc|att] [#success | #attempts] HT20 LGI 1 S MCS0 0 1477 5.6 1.8 28.6 1 0 0 1 5 HT20 LGI 1 DP MCS1 1 738 10.6 9.7 82.6 4 0 0 14 34 HT20 LGI 1 MCS2 2 492 14.9 9.2 55.4 5 0 0 52 77 HT20 LGI 1 B S MCS3 3 369 18.8 15.6 74.9 5 1 1 417 554 HT20 LGI 1 A MCS4 4 246 25.4 16.7 59.2 5 1 1 13812 17951 HT20 LGI 1 C S MCS5 5 185 30.7 14.0 41.0 5 1 5 57 640 HT20 LGI 1 MCS6 6 164 33.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 1 0 48 HT20 LGI 1 S MCS7 7 148 35.1 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 36 We can notice the device try now to send with lower rates (and high success rates). At the end, we measured 20-25% better throughput with this patch. Fixes:9bca45f3d6("staging: wfx: allow to send 802.11 frames") Tested-by: Olivier Souloumiac <olivier.souloumiac@silabs.com> Tested-by: Alexandr Suslenko <suslenko.o@ajax.systems> Reported-by: Alexandr Suslenko <suslenko.o@ajax.systems> Co-developed-by: Jérôme Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@silabs.com> Signed-off-by: Jérôme Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@silabs.com> Signed-off-by: Felipe Negrelli Wolter <felipe.negrelliwolter@silabs.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231004123039.157112-1-jerome.pouiller@silabs.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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