Re: [PATCH v3] wifi: ath11k: Optimize 6 GHz scan time

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>]

Manikanta Pubbisetty <quic_mpubbise@quicinc.com> writes:

> On 3/22/2023 5:25 PM, Kalle Valo wrote:
>
>> Manikanta Pubbisetty <quic_mpubbise@quicinc.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Currently, time taken to scan all supported channels on WCN6750
>>> is ~8 seconds and connection time is almost 10 seconds. WCN6750
>>> supports three Wi-Fi bands (i.e., 2.4/5/6 GHz) and the numbers of
>>> channels for scan come around ~100 channels (default case).
>>> Since the chip doesn't have support for DBS (Dual Band Simultaneous),
>>> scans cannot be parallelized resulting in longer scan times.
>>>
>>> Among the 100 odd channels, ~60 channels are in 6 GHz band. Therefore,
>>> optimizing the scan for 6 GHz channels will bring down the overall
>>> scan time.
>>>
>>> WCN6750 firmware has support to scan a 6 GHz channel based on co-located
>>> AP information i.e., RNR IE which is found in the legacy 2.4/5 GHz scan
>>> results. When a scan request with all supported channel list is enqueued
>>> to the firmware, then based on WMI_SCAN_CHAN_FLAG_SCAN_ONLY_IF_RNR_FOUND
>>> scan channel flag, firmware will scan only those 6 GHz channels for which
>>> RNR IEs are found in the legacy scan results.
>>>
>>> In the proposed design, based on NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_COLOCATED_6GHZ scan
>>> flag, driver will set the WMI_SCAN_CHAN_FLAG_SCAN_ONLY_IF_RNR_FOUND flag
>>> for non-PSC channels. Since there is high probability to find 6 GHz APs
>>> on PSC channels, these channels are always scanned. Only non-PSC channels
>>> are selectively scanned based on cached RNR information from the legacy
>>> scan results.
>>>
>>> If NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_COLOCATED_6GHZ is not set in the scan flags,
>>> then scan will happen on all supported channels (default behavior).
>>>
>>> With these optimizations, scan time is improved by 1.5-1.8 seconds on
>>> WCN6750. Similar savings have been observed on WCN6855.
>>>
>>> Tested-on: WCN6750 hw1.0 AHB WLAN.MSL.1.0.1-00887-QCAMSLSWPLZ-1
>>> Tested-on: WCN6855 hw2.1 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-03125-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3.6510.16
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Manikanta Pubbisetty <quic_mpubbise@quicinc.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@quicinc.com>
>>
>> New warning:
>>
>> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c:3827: line length of 91 exceeds 90 columns
>>
>> I couldn't quickly figure out how to fix that, any ideas?
>>
>
> I'd thought that max_line_length is 100 from the checkpatch.pl

In ath11k-check it's set to 90.

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