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authorAlexander Bondar <alexander.bondar@intel.com>2013-03-05 14:01:27 +0200
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2013-04-03 22:49:16 +0200
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iwlwifi: mvm: set keepalive period regardless of PM state
The firmware starts sending nulldata frames for keepalive immediately after association, regardless of power management state. The driver thus needs to configure keep alive period unconditionally. Signed-off-by: Alexander Bondar <alexander.bondar@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/fw-api-power.h4
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/power.c10
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/fw-api-power.h b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/fw-api-power.h
index 3440b56d624..81fe45f46be 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/fw-api-power.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/fw-api-power.h
@@ -93,7 +93,9 @@ enum iwl_power_flags {
*
* @flags: Power table command flags from POWER_FLAGS_*
* @keep_alive_seconds: Keep alive period in seconds. Default - 25 sec.
- * Minimum allowed:- 3 * DTIM
+ * Minimum allowed:- 3 * DTIM. Keep alive period must be
+ * set regardless of power scheme or current power state.
+ * FW use this value also when PM is disabled.
* @rx_data_timeout: Minimum time (usec) from last Rx packet for AM to
* PSM transition - legacy PM
* @tx_data_timeout: Minimum time (usec) from last Tx packet for AM to
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/power.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/power.c
index 0c077136195..6e7e06a2b9c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/power.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/power.c
@@ -86,6 +86,13 @@ static void iwl_mvm_power_build_cmd(struct iwl_mvm *mvm,
int keep_alive;
bool radar_detect = false;
+ /*
+ * Regardless of power management state the driver must set
+ * keep alive period. FW will use it for sending keep alive NDPs
+ * immediately after association.
+ */
+ cmd->keep_alive_seconds = POWER_KEEP_ALIVE_PERIOD_SEC;
+
if ((iwlmvm_mod_params.power_scheme == IWL_POWER_SCHEME_CAM) ||
!iwlwifi_mod_params.power_save)
return;
@@ -117,9 +124,8 @@ static void iwl_mvm_power_build_cmd(struct iwl_mvm *mvm,
/* Check that keep alive period is at least 3 * DTIM */
dtimper_msec = dtimper * vif->bss_conf.beacon_int;
keep_alive = max_t(int, 3 * dtimper_msec,
- MSEC_PER_SEC * POWER_KEEP_ALIVE_PERIOD_SEC);
+ MSEC_PER_SEC * cmd->keep_alive_seconds);
keep_alive = DIV_ROUND_UP(keep_alive, MSEC_PER_SEC);
-
cmd->keep_alive_seconds = keep_alive;
if (iwlmvm_mod_params.power_scheme == IWL_POWER_SCHEME_LP) {