ath5k: Adaptive Noise Immunity (ANI) Implementation
authorBruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Fri, 2 Apr 2010 09:44:08 +0000 (18:44 +0900)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Wed, 7 Apr 2010 18:37:53 +0000 (14:37 -0400)
commit2111ac0d888767999c7dd6d1309dcc1fb8012022
tree1d388cf94a88790a527a5e695081fb3508127a3a
parentbc53e5129ce879ba024b7d21981871ea63a37b42
ath5k: Adaptive Noise Immunity (ANI) Implementation

This is an Adaptive Noise Imunity (ANI) implementation for ath5k. I have looked
at both ath9k and HAL sources (they are nearly the same), and even though i
have implemented some things differently, the basic algorithm is practically
the same, for now. I hope that this can serve as a clean start to improve the
algorithm later.

This also adds a possibility to manually control ANI settings, right now only
thru a debugfs file:
  * set lowest sensitivity (=highest noise immunity):
echo sens-low > /sys/kernel/debug/ath5k/phy0/ani
  * set highest sensitivity (=lowest noise immunity):
echo sens-high > /sys/kernel/debug/ath5k/phy0/ani
  * automatically control immunity (default):
echo ani-on > /sys/kernel/debug/ath5k/phy0/ani
  * to see the parameters in use and watch them change:
cat /sys/kernel/debug/ath5k/phy0/ani

Manually setting sensitivity will turn the automatic control off. You can also
control each of the five immunity parameters (noise immunity, spur immunity,
firstep, ofdm weak signal detection, cck weak signal detection) manually thru
the debugfs file.

This is tested on AR5414 and nearly doubles the thruput in a noisy 2GHz band.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 files changed:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/Makefile
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ani.c [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ani.h [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ath5k.h
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/attach.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.h
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/debug.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/debug.h
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/desc.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/pcu.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/reg.h