mac80211: adapt slot time in IBSS mode
In 5GHz/802.11a, we are allowed to use short slot times. Doing this
may increases performance by 20% for legacy connections (54 MBit/s).
I can confirm this in my tests (27% more throughput using iperf), and
also have a small positive effect (5% more throughput) for HT rates,
tested on 1 stream.
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/ibss.c b/net/mac80211/ibss.c
index 11a6a1bd..700d0ed 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ibss.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/ibss.c
@@ -201,6 +201,20 @@
bss_change |= BSS_CHANGED_BASIC_RATES;
bss_change |= BSS_CHANGED_HT;
bss_change |= BSS_CHANGED_IBSS;
+
+ /*
+ * In 5 GHz/802.11a, we can always use short slot time.
+ * (IEEE 802.11-2012 18.3.8.7)
+ *
+ * In 2.4GHz, we must always use long slots in IBSS for compatibility
+ * reasons.
+ * (IEEE 802.11-2012 19.4.5)
+ *
+ * HT follows these specifications (IEEE 802.11-2012 20.3.18)
+ */
+ sdata->vif.bss_conf.use_short_slot = chan->band == IEEE80211_BAND_5GHZ;
+ bss_change |= BSS_CHANGED_ERP_SLOT;
+
sdata->vif.bss_conf.ibss_joined = true;
sdata->vif.bss_conf.ibss_creator = creator;
ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify(sdata, bss_change);
