wilc1000: Improve WILC TX performance when power_save is off
The wakeup and sleep commands need to be sent to the WILC chip only when it is in power save mode (PSM, as controlled by "iw dev wlan0 set power_save on/off"). The commands are relatively costly, so it pays to skip them when possible. iperf3 without this patch (no significant different with PSM on/off): TX 0.00-120.01 sec 140 MBytes 9.82 Mbits/sec RX 0.00-120.69 sec 283 MBytes 19.6 Mbits/sec with this patch applied: PSM off (TX is 46% improved, RX slightly improved; may not be significant): TX 0.00-120.00 sec 206 MBytes 14.4 Mbits/sec RX 0.00-120.48 sec 322 MBytes 22.4 Mbits/sec PSM on (no significant change): TX 0.00-120.00 sec 140 MBytes 9.78 Mbits/sec RX 0.00-120.08 sec 257 MBytes 18.0 Mbits/sec Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@egauge.net> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211210203016.3680425-2-davidm@egauge.net
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