iwlwifi: allow user to set max rate

allow user to set max rate through #iwconfig <inteface> rate XXX.
mac80211 will try to force this if user set it, but driver is not
in sync which cause mac80211 to report wrong current rate. This
patch will check if max rate is set and force it in rate scaling

Signed-off-by: mohamed abbas <mohamed.abbas@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rs.c
index a82cce5fbff8..12c5e5d6e910 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rs.c
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ struct iwl_lq_sta {
         u16 active_mimo2_rate;
         u16 active_mimo3_rate;
         u16 active_rate_basic;
+        s8 max_rate_idx;     /* Max rate set by user */
 
         struct iwl_link_quality_cmd lq;
         struct iwl_scale_tbl_info lq_info[LQ_SIZE]; /* "active", "search" */
@@ -1759,6 +1760,15 @@ static void rs_rate_scale_perform(struct iwl_priv *priv,
                 return;
         }
 
+        /* force user max rate if set by user */
+        if ((lq_sta->max_rate_idx != -1) &&
+            (lq_sta->max_rate_idx < index)) {
+                index = lq_sta->max_rate_idx;
+                update_lq = 1;
+                window = &(tbl->win[index]);
+                goto lq_update;
+        }
+
         window = &(tbl->win[index]);
 
         /*
@@ -1850,6 +1860,11 @@ static void rs_rate_scale_perform(struct iwl_priv *priv,
         low = high_low & 0xff;
         high = (high_low >> 8) & 0xff;
 
+        /* If user set max rate, dont allow higher than user constrain */
+        if ((lq_sta->max_rate_idx != -1) &&
+            (lq_sta->max_rate_idx < high))
+                high = IWL_RATE_INVALID;
+
         sr = window->success_ratio;
 
         /* Collect measured throughputs for current and adjacent rates */
@@ -2110,6 +2125,17 @@ static void rs_get_rate(void *priv_r, struct ieee80211_sta *sta, void *priv_sta,
 
         IWL_DEBUG_RATE_LIMIT("rate scale calculate new rate for skb\n");
 
+        /* Get max rate if user set max rate */
+        if (lq_sta) {
+                lq_sta->max_rate_idx = txrc->max_rate_idx;
+                if ((sband->band == IEEE80211_BAND_5GHZ) &&
+                    (lq_sta->max_rate_idx != -1))
+                        lq_sta->max_rate_idx += IWL_FIRST_OFDM_RATE;
+                if ((lq_sta->max_rate_idx < 0) ||
+                    (lq_sta->max_rate_idx >= IWL_RATE_COUNT))
+                        lq_sta->max_rate_idx = -1;
+        }
+
         if (sta)
                 mask_bit = sta->supp_rates[sband->band];
 
@@ -2220,6 +2246,7 @@ static void rs_rate_init(void *priv_r, struct ieee80211_supported_band *sband,
         }
 
         lq_sta->is_dup = 0;
+        lq_sta->max_rate_idx = -1;
         lq_sta->is_green = rs_use_green(priv, conf);
         lq_sta->active_legacy_rate = priv->active_rate & ~(0x1000);
         lq_sta->active_rate_basic = priv->active_rate_basic;