From: Wen Gong quic_wgong@quicinc.com
[ Upstream commit 413e20e82ee78f142cb5194fd317db514f012602 ]
Currently when connecting to an AP with 11AX-HE phy mode, host sends WMI_VDEV_PARAM_SET_HEMU_MODE parameter to firmware after WMI_PEER_ASSOC_CMDID command. This results in TXBF not working, because firmware calculates TXBF values while handling WMI_PEER_ASSOC_CMDID, however at that time WMI_VDEV_PARAM_SET_HEMU_MODE has not been sent yet. See below log:
AP sends "VHT/HE/EHT NDP Announcement" to station, and station sends "Action no Ack" of category code HE to AP, the "Nc Index" and "Codebook Information" are wrong:
Issued action: IEEE 802.11 Action No Ack, Flags: ........ IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN Fixed parameters Category code: HE (30) HE Action: HE Compressed Beamforming And CQI (0) Total length: 152 HE MIMO Control: 0x0004008018 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .000 = Nc Index: 1 Column (0) .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ..0. .... .... = Codebook Information: 0
Change to send WMI_VDEV_PARAM_SET_HEMU_MODE before WMI_PEER_ASSOC_CMDID, then firmware will calculate the TXBF values with valid parameters instead of empty values. TXBF works well and throughput performance is improved from 80 Mbps to 130 Mbps with this patch.
Good action after this patch: IEEE 802.11 Action No Ack, Flags: ........ IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN Fixed parameters Category code: HE (30) HE Action: HE Compressed Beamforming And CQI (0) Total length: 409 HE MIMO Control: 0x0004008219 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .001 = Nc Index: 2 Columns (1) .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ..1. .... .... = Codebook Information: 1
This change applies to all chipsets.
Tested-on: WCN6855 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-03125-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3.6510.23
Fixes: 38dfe775d0ab ("wifi: ath11k: push MU-MIMO params from hostapd to hardware") Signed-off-by: Wen Gong quic_wgong@quicinc.com Signed-off-by: Baochen Qiang quic_bqiang@quicinc.com Acked-by: Jeff Johnson quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo quic_kvalo@quicinc.com Link: https://msgid.link/20240131021832.17298-1-quic_bqiang@quicinc.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c index 71c6dab1aedba..e09b21a82c20f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c @@ -3026,7 +3026,14 @@ static void ath11k_bss_assoc(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
rcu_read_unlock();
+ if (!ath11k_mac_vif_recalc_sta_he_txbf(ar, vif, &he_cap)) { + ath11k_warn(ar->ab, "failed to recalc he txbf for vdev %i on bss %pM\n", + arvif->vdev_id, bss_conf->bssid); + return; + } + peer_arg.is_assoc = true; + ret = ath11k_wmi_send_peer_assoc_cmd(ar, &peer_arg); if (ret) { ath11k_warn(ar->ab, "failed to run peer assoc for %pM vdev %i: %d\n", @@ -3049,12 +3056,6 @@ static void ath11k_bss_assoc(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, return; }
- if (!ath11k_mac_vif_recalc_sta_he_txbf(ar, vif, &he_cap)) { - ath11k_warn(ar->ab, "failed to recalc he txbf for vdev %i on bss %pM\n", - arvif->vdev_id, bss_conf->bssid); - return; - } - WARN_ON(arvif->is_up);
arvif->aid = vif->cfg.aid;