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    wifi: ath11k: Optimize 6 GHz scan time · 8b4d2f08
    Manikanta Pubbisetty authored
    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: default avatarManikanta Pubbisetty <quic_mpubbise@quicinc.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKalle Valo <quic_kvalo@quicinc.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230323060913.10097-1-quic_mpubbise@quicinc.com
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