While sending aggregated frames in AES, the AR5416 chips required additional padding b/w subframes. This workaround is not needed for edma (AR9003 family) chips. With this patch ~4Mbps thoughput improvement was observed in clear environment.
Cc: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <[email protected]> --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c index a1fed6c..9283440 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c @@ -661,7 +661,8 @@ static int ath_compute_num_delims(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_atx_tid *tid, * TODO - this could be improved to be dependent on the rate. * The hardware can keep up at lower rates, but not higher rates */ - if (fi->keyix != ATH9K_TXKEYIX_INVALID) + if ((fi->keyix != ATH9K_TXKEYIX_INVALID) && + !(sc->sc_ah->caps.hw_caps & ATH9K_HW_CAP_EDMA)) ndelim += ATH_AGGR_ENCRYPTDELIM; /* -- 1.7.6 _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
