[PATCH v5 5/6] wifi: ath11k: Add support for MHI bandwidth scaling

Neil Armstrong neil.armstrong at linaro.org
Tue Sep 1 07:45:30 PDT 2026


Hi,

On 8/19/26 15:25, Krishna Chaitanya Chundru wrote:
> From: Miaoqing Pan <quic_miaoqing at quicinc.com>
> 
> Add support for MHI bandwidth scaling, which will reduce power consumption
> if WLAN operates with lower bandwidth. This feature is only enabled for
> QCA6390.
> 
> Bandwidth scaling is initiated by the endpoint firmware based upon the
> bandwidth requirements, if there is high bandwidth data endpoint requests
> for higher data rates or if there is less bandwidth they request for lower
> data rates to reduce power. Endpoint initiates this through MHI protocol.
> 
> Tested-on: WCN6855 hw2.1 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-04546-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_IOE-1

Somehow unrelated, but I added this to the ath12k to test on an WCN785x and I just
got a single event to set the speed to 5GT/s and no further event whatever the state
of the Wireless link is.

Is there anything required on the ath12k side to allow lowering the speed to 2.5GT/s ?

Thanks,
Neil

> 
> Signed-off-by: Miaoqing Pan <quic_miaoqing at quicinc.com>
> Signed-off-by: Krishna Chaitanya Chundru <krishna.chundru at oss.qualcomm.com>
> ---
>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mhi.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 38 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mhi.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mhi.c
> index a6c9ff112c68..9bff4c4bca3b 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mhi.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mhi.c
> @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
>   #define MHI_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT_MS	20000
>   #define RDDM_DUMP_SIZE	0x420000
>   #define MHI_CB_INVALID	0xff
> +#define MHI_BW_SCALE_CHAN_DB 126
>   
>   static const struct mhi_channel_config ath11k_mhi_channels_qca6390[] = {
>   	{
> @@ -71,6 +72,17 @@ static struct mhi_event_config ath11k_mhi_events_qca6390[] = {
>   		.client_managed = false,
>   		.offload_channel = false,
>   	},
> +	{
> +		.num_elements = 8,
> +		.irq_moderation_ms = 0,
> +		.irq = 1,
> +		.mode = MHI_DB_BRST_DISABLE,
> +		.data_type = MHI_ER_BW_SCALE,
> +		.priority = 2,
> +		.hardware_event = false,
> +		.client_managed = false,
> +		.offload_channel = false,
> +	},
>   };
>   
>   static const struct mhi_controller_config ath11k_mhi_config_qca6390 = {
> @@ -311,6 +323,30 @@ static void ath11k_mhi_op_write_reg(struct mhi_controller *mhi_cntrl,
>   	writel(val, addr);
>   }
>   
> +static int ath11k_mhi_op_get_misc_doorbell(struct mhi_controller *mhi_cntrl,
> +					   enum mhi_er_data_type type)
> +{
> +	if (type == MHI_ER_BW_SCALE)
> +		return MHI_BW_SCALE_CHAN_DB;
> +
> +	return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> +}
> +
> +static int ath11k_mhi_op_bw_scale(struct mhi_controller *mhi_cntrl,
> +				  struct mhi_link_info *link_info)
> +{
> +	enum pci_bus_speed speed = pci_lnkctl2_bus_speed(link_info->target_link_speed);
> +	struct ath11k_base *ab = dev_get_drvdata(mhi_cntrl->cntrl_dev);
> +	struct pci_dev *pci_dev = to_pci_dev(ab->dev);
> +	struct pci_dev *pdev;
> +
> +	pdev = pci_upstream_bridge(pci_dev);
> +	if (!pdev)
> +		return -ENODEV;
> +
> +	return pcie_set_target_speed(pdev, speed, true);
> +}
> +
>   static int ath11k_mhi_read_addr_from_dt(struct mhi_controller *mhi_ctrl)
>   {
>   	struct device_node *np;
> @@ -387,6 +423,8 @@ int ath11k_mhi_register(struct ath11k_pci *ab_pci)
>   	mhi_ctrl->status_cb = ath11k_mhi_op_status_cb;
>   	mhi_ctrl->read_reg = ath11k_mhi_op_read_reg;
>   	mhi_ctrl->write_reg = ath11k_mhi_op_write_reg;
> +	mhi_ctrl->bw_scale = ath11k_mhi_op_bw_scale;
> +	mhi_ctrl->get_misc_doorbell = ath11k_mhi_op_get_misc_doorbell;
>   
>   	switch (ab->hw_rev) {
>   	case ATH11K_HW_QCN9074_HW10:
> 




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