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>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-5000.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-5000.c
index aab6cf23c2bd..cbbc0e4f2c76 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-5000.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-5000.c
@@ -1603,6 +1603,7 @@ struct iwl_cfg iwl5300_agn_cfg = {
         .led_compensation = 51,
         .use_rts_for_ht = true, /* use rts/cts protection */
         .chain_noise_num_beacons = IWL_CAL_NUM_BEACONS,
+        .plcp_delta_threshold = IWL_MAX_PLCP_ERR_LONG_THRESHOLD_DEF,
 };
 
 struct iwl_cfg iwl5100_bgn_cfg = {
@@ -1627,6 +1628,7 @@ struct iwl_cfg iwl5100_bgn_cfg = {
         .led_compensation = 51,
         .use_rts_for_ht = true, /* use rts/cts protection */
         .chain_noise_num_beacons = IWL_CAL_NUM_BEACONS,
+        .plcp_delta_threshold = IWL_MAX_PLCP_ERR_LONG_THRESHOLD_DEF,
 };
 
 struct iwl_cfg iwl5100_abg_cfg = {
@@ -1649,6 +1651,7 @@ struct iwl_cfg iwl5100_abg_cfg = {
         .use_bsm = false,
         .led_compensation = 51,
         .chain_noise_num_beacons = IWL_CAL_NUM_BEACONS,
+        .plcp_delta_threshold = IWL_MAX_PLCP_ERR_LONG_THRESHOLD_DEF,
 };
 
 struct iwl_cfg iwl5100_agn_cfg = {
@@ -1673,6 +1676,7 @@ struct iwl_cfg iwl5100_agn_cfg = {
         .led_compensation = 51,
         .use_rts_for_ht = true, /* use rts/cts protection */
         .chain_noise_num_beacons = IWL_CAL_NUM_BEACONS,
+        .plcp_delta_threshold = IWL_MAX_PLCP_ERR_LONG_THRESHOLD_DEF,
 };
 
 struct iwl_cfg iwl5350_agn_cfg = {
@@ -1697,6 +1701,7 @@ struct iwl_cfg iwl5350_agn_cfg = {
         .led_compensation = 51,
         .use_rts_for_ht = true, /* use rts/cts protection */
         .chain_noise_num_beacons = IWL_CAL_NUM_BEACONS,
+        .plcp_delta_threshold = IWL_MAX_PLCP_ERR_LONG_THRESHOLD_DEF,
 };
 
 struct iwl_cfg iwl5150_agn_cfg = {
@@ -1721,6 +1726,7 @@ struct iwl_cfg iwl5150_agn_cfg = {
         .led_compensation = 51,
         .use_rts_for_ht = true, /* use rts/cts protection */
         .chain_noise_num_beacons = IWL_CAL_NUM_BEACONS,
+        .plcp_delta_threshold = IWL_MAX_PLCP_ERR_LONG_THRESHOLD_DEF,
 };
 
 struct iwl_cfg iwl5150_abg_cfg = {
@@ -1743,6 +1749,7 @@ struct iwl_cfg iwl5150_abg_cfg = {
         .use_bsm = false,
         .led_compensation = 51,
         .chain_noise_num_beacons = IWL_CAL_NUM_BEACONS,
+        .plcp_delta_threshold = IWL_MAX_PLCP_ERR_LONG_THRESHOLD_DEF,
 };
 
 MODULE_FIRMWARE(IWL5000_MODULE_FIRMWARE(IWL5000_UCODE_API_MAX));