1. 07 Oct, 2014 2 commits
    • Andrea Merello's avatar
      rtl818x_pci: fix response rate may be incorrect. · 79ee6565
      Andrea Merello authored
      Currently the allowed "respose rate" set (rates for HW generated frames
      like ACKs) is the same as the basic rate set.
      
      The HW will use the higher allowed response rate that is lower than the
      rate of the received frame.
      
      This is more or less what IEEE80211 mandates, but I missed the fact
      that IEEE80211 also says that whenever it happens that for a modulation
      class there is no any rate in the basic rates set, then the response rate
      set shall include also all the mandatory rates for that modulation class.
      
      This patch adds mandatory OFDM rates to the allowed response rate set if
      no OFDM rate is included in the basic rate set.
      
      Depending by the AP, I faced cases in which this patch seems to cause a
      noticeable perfomance improvement.
      
      - With my usual test AP there is no particular perfomance difference.
      - With a prism54/hostapd AP this patch causes RX thoughput increase from
        about 5Mbps to about 20Mbps.
      
      Hopefully this patch may help people that faced performance regression wrt
      the old staging driver.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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    • John W. Linville's avatar
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