Jonas Jelonek [off-list ref] writes:

This patch changes mac80211 rate control for the ath9k driver.
The rate lookup per packet is changed from legacy usage of
ieee80211_get_tx_rates() to the new rate table based lookup in struct
ieee80211_sta->rates.

The most recent rate control API (introduced with
0d528d85c519b755b6f4e1bafa3a39984370e1c1) allows drivers to directly get
rates from ieee80211_sta->rates. This is not used by every driver yet,
the translation/merge is currently performed in ieee80211_get_tx_rates.
This patch changes the behaviour and avoids the call to
ieee80211_get_tx_rates and subsequent calls. ath9k now directly reads
rates from sta->rates into its rate table. Cause ath9k does not
expect rate selection in SKB->CB, the table merge does not consider rate
array in SKB->CB except for the first entry (used for probing).

Tested with a 8devices Rambutan with QCA9558 SoC by performing two
runs, one without the patch and one with. Generated traffic between
AP and multiple STAs in each run, measured throughput and captured rc_stats.
Comparison of both runs resulted in same rate selection and no
performance loss or other negative effects.

Co-developed-by: Thomas Huehn <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Jonas Jelonek <jelonek.jonas@gmail.com>

Better, thanks!

Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <redacted>