From 3f2bee249926194313f7001bdfedb9c9634a48fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Helmut Schaa Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:12:01 +0200 Subject: rt2x00: provide mac80211 a suitable max_rates value Set up max_rates and max_rate_tries with suitable values even if we do not support the whole functionality. As rt2800 has a global fallback table we cannot specify more then one tx rate per frame but since the hw will try several different rates (based on the fallback table) we should still initialize max_rates to the maximum number of rates we are going to try. Otherwise mac80211 will truncate our reported tx rates and the rc algortihm will end up with incorrect data choosing unsuitable rates for tx. This improves throughput on rt2800 devices considerable. Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers') diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c index f15832245e0e..6d4df3e79be4 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c @@ -2497,6 +2497,18 @@ int rt2800_probe_hw_mode(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev) rt2x00_eeprom_addr(rt2x00dev, EEPROM_MAC_ADDR_0)); + /* + * As rt2800 has a global fallback table we cannot specify + * more then one tx rate per frame but since the hw will + * try several rates (based on the fallback table) we should + * still initialize max_rates to the maximum number of rates + * we are going to try. Otherwise mac80211 will truncate our + * reported tx rates and the rc algortihm will end up with + * incorrect data. + */ + rt2x00dev->hw->max_rates = 7; + rt2x00dev->hw->max_rate_tries = 1; + rt2x00_eeprom_read(rt2x00dev, EEPROM_ANTENNA, &eeprom); /* -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b