tree 84249c1c0d2cc299c6422347653651406c6a0d01
parent 6665b54e79d52c813914481783d82398ca2451f6
author Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> 1277421976 +0200
committer John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> 1277752579 -0400

ath9k: fix retry count for A-MPDU rate control status reports

The 'bf_retries' field of the ath_buf structure was used for both
software retries (AMPDU subframes) and hardware retries (legacy
frames). This led to a wrong retry count being reported for the A-MPDU
rate control stats.
This patch changes the code to no longer use bf_retries for reporting
retry counts, but instead always using the real on-chip retry count
from the ath_tx_status.
Additionally, if the first subframe of an A-MPDU was not acked, the tx
status report is submitted along with the first acked subframe, which
may not contain the correct rates in the tx info.
This is easily corrected by saving the tx rate info before looping over
subframes, and then copying it back once the A-MPDU status report is
submitted.
In my tests this change improves throughput visibly.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Reported-by: Björn Smedman <bjorn.smedman@venatech.se>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>