[PATCH v2] wifi: ath11k: Optimize 6 GHz scan time

[Manikanta Pubbisetty]

On 3/15/2023 3:59 PM, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Manikanta Pubbisetty <quic_mpubbise at quicinc.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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: Manikanta Pubbisetty <quic_mpubbise at quicinc.com>
> 
> Fails to apply, please rebase.
> 
> error: patch failed: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.h:2097
> error: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.h: patch does not apply
> stg import: Diff does not apply cleanly
> 
> Patch set to Changes Requested.

I'll rebase the patch and send v3.

Thanks,
Manikanta