iwlwifi: make U-APSD default configurable at compile time
With a significant number of deployed APs, enabling uAPSD leads to the
AP never using aggregation sessions (likely due to the complexities
involved in handling uAPSD in those.) This obviously results in a large
drop in throughput with such APs.
On the other hand, uAPSD can result in some power consumption benefits,
but for now just disable it to get performance with affected APs back
up.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/Kconfig
index 6451d2b..760e96f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/Kconfig
@@ -87,6 +87,16 @@
If unsure, don't enable this option, as some programs might
expect incoming broadcasts for their normal operations.
+config IWLWIFI_UAPSD
+ bool "enable U-APSD by default"
+ depends on IWLMVM
+ help
+ Say Y here to enable U-APSD by default. This may cause
+ interoperability problems with some APs, manifesting in lower than
+ expected throughput due to those APs not enabling aggregation
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
menu "Debugging Options"
config IWLWIFI_DEBUG
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c
index 77e3178..283aee0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c
@@ -1254,7 +1254,9 @@
.bt_coex_active = true,
.power_level = IWL_POWER_INDEX_1,
.wd_disable = true,
- .uapsd_disable = false,
+#ifndef CONFIG_IWLWIFI_UAPSD
+ .uapsd_disable = true,
+#endif /* CONFIG_IWLWIFI_UAPSD */
/* the rest are 0 by default */
};
IWL_EXPORT_SYMBOL(iwlwifi_mod_params);
@@ -1370,7 +1372,11 @@
module_param_named(uapsd_disable, iwlwifi_mod_params.uapsd_disable,
bool, S_IRUGO);
+#ifdef CONFIG_IWLWIFI_UAPSD
MODULE_PARM_DESC(uapsd_disable, "disable U-APSD functionality (default: N)");
+#else
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(uapsd_disable, "disable U-APSD functionality (default: Y)");
+#endif
/*
* set bt_coex_active to true, uCode will do kill/defer