1. 12 Apr, 2023 1 commit
    • Manikanta Pubbisetty's avatar
      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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