wilc1000: Improve WILC TX performance when power_save is off
The wakeup and sleep commands need to be sent to the WILC chip only
when it is in power save mode (PSM, as controlled by "iw dev wlan0 set
power_save on/off"). The commands are relatively costly, so it pays
to skip them when possible.
iperf3 without this patch (no significant different with PSM on/off):
TX 0.00-120.01 sec 140 MBytes 9.82 Mbits/sec
RX 0.00-120.69 sec 283 MBytes 19.6 Mbits/sec
with this patch applied:
PSM off (TX is 46% improved, RX slightly improved; may not be significant):
TX 0.00-120.00 sec 206 MBytes 14.4 Mbits/sec
RX 0.00-120.48 sec 322 MBytes 22.4 Mbits/sec
PSM on (no significant change):
TX 0.00-120.00 sec 140 MBytes 9.78 Mbits/sec
RX 0.00-120.08 sec 257 MBytes 18.0 Mbits/sec
Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@egauge.net>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211210203016.3680425-2-davidm@egauge.net
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