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    rtl818x_pci: Fix rtl8185 excessive IFS after CTS-to-self · 7df00724
    Andrea Merello authored
    Measuring time between _end_ of CTS-to-self and _end_ of datapacket (with a
    prism54 board and mac80211 hacked to let the MAC timestamp stay untouched in the
    radiotap header) resulted in about 300uS, while the datapacket itself should be
    by far shorter (less than 100uS) and IFS should be SIFS (10uS).
    This measure was confirmed whith a scope: about 250uS IFS has been seen between
    the two packets.
    
    This situation causes the CTS-to-self protection mechanism to work incorrectly
    due to the NAV expiring during, or even before beginning, the packet
    transmission, and it also causes the performances to be anyway reduced due to
    time waste.
    
    This problem has been seen at every packet TXed with CTS-to-self enabled on
    rtl8185 board.
    rtl8187se seems not affected (and rtl8180, being a 802.11b card, does not have
    CTS-to-self mechaninsm).
    
    This patch fixes this by adding a magic register write, making the board wait
    for correct SIFS after CTS-to-self packet.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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