mac80211: adapt slot time in IBSS mode

In 5GHz/802.11a, we are allowed to use short slot times. Doing this
may increases performance by 20% for legacy connections (54 MBit/s).
I can confirm this in my tests (27% more throughput using iperf), and
also have a small positive effect (5% more throughput) for HT rates,
tested on 1 stream.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/ibss.c b/net/mac80211/ibss.c
index 11a6a1bde2fd..700d0ed736c9 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ibss.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/ibss.c
@@ -201,6 +201,20 @@ static void __ieee80211_sta_join_ibss(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
         bss_change |= BSS_CHANGED_BASIC_RATES;
         bss_change |= BSS_CHANGED_HT;
         bss_change |= BSS_CHANGED_IBSS;
+
+        /*
+         * In 5 GHz/802.11a, we can always use short slot time.
+         * (IEEE 802.11-2012 18.3.8.7)
+         *
+         * In 2.4GHz, we must always use long slots in IBSS for compatibility
+         * reasons.
+         * (IEEE 802.11-2012 19.4.5)
+         *
+         * HT follows these specifications (IEEE 802.11-2012 20.3.18)
+         */
+        sdata->vif.bss_conf.use_short_slot = chan->band == IEEE80211_BAND_5GHZ;
+        bss_change |= BSS_CHANGED_ERP_SLOT;
+
         sdata->vif.bss_conf.ibss_joined = true;
         sdata->vif.bss_conf.ibss_creator = creator;
         ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify(sdata, bss_change);