iwlwifi: Tune radio to prevent unexpected behavior
We have seen the throughput dropped due to external noisy environment
and the radio is out of tune. There are lot of plcp errors indicating
this condition. Eventually the station can get de-authenticated by the
Access Point. By resetting and tuning the radio, the plcp errors are
reduced or eliminated and the throughput starts to rise.
To prevent unexpected behavior such as drop in throughput or deauthentication,
- The change provides the driver feature to monitor and tune the radio base on
the statistics notification from the uCode.
- It also allows the setting of the plcp error rate threshold via
the plcp_delta under debugfs interface.
Signed-off-by: Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen <trieux.t.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h
index 6de83d1..6619183 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h
@@ -232,6 +232,8 @@
* @adv_thermal_throttle: support advance thermal throttle
* @support_ct_kill_exit: support ct kill exit condition
* @support_wimax_coexist: support wimax/wifi co-exist
+ * @plcp_delta_threshold: plcp error rate threshold used to trigger
+ * radio tuning when there is a high receiving plcp error rate
*
* We enable the driver to be backward compatible wrt API version. The
* driver specifies which APIs it supports (with @ucode_api_max being the
@@ -288,6 +290,7 @@
bool adv_thermal_throttle;
bool support_ct_kill_exit;
const bool support_wimax_coexist;
+ u8 plcp_delta_threshold;
};
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