From patchwork Mon May 28 11:25:06 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Revert "rt2800: use TXOP_BACKOFF for probe frames" From: Stanislaw Gruszka X-Patchwork-Id: 10431861 Message-Id: <1527506706-6488-1-git-send-email-sgruszka@redhat.com> To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 13:25:06 +0200 This reverts commit fb47ada8dc3c30c8e7b415da155742b49536c61e. In some situations when we set TXOP_BACKOFF, the probe frame is not sent at all. What it worse then sending probe frame as part of AMPDU and can degrade 11n performance to 11g rates. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka --- drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c index a6884e73d2ab..7ddee980048b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c @@ -372,16 +372,15 @@ static void rt2x00queue_create_tx_descriptor_ht(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev, /* * Determine IFS values - * - Use TXOP_BACKOFF for probe and management frames except beacons + * - Use TXOP_BACKOFF for management frames except beacons * - Use TXOP_SIFS for fragment bursts * - Use TXOP_HTTXOP for everything else * * Note: rt2800 devices won't use CTS protection (if used) * for frames not transmitted with TXOP_HTTXOP */ - if ((ieee80211_is_mgmt(hdr->frame_control) && - !ieee80211_is_beacon(hdr->frame_control)) || - (tx_info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_RATE_CTRL_PROBE)) + if (ieee80211_is_mgmt(hdr->frame_control) && + !ieee80211_is_beacon(hdr->frame_control)) txdesc->u.ht.txop = TXOP_BACKOFF; else if (!(tx_info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_FIRST_FRAGMENT)) txdesc->u.ht.txop = TXOP_SIFS;