Currently, the station always follows the listen interval regardless of
the DTIM value. The DTIM function does not work as expected. The default
value of the listen interval is 5 so that the STA wakes up every 500ms
when power save is on. This can cause a data transmission delay.

Set the DTIM policy to DTIM stick mode so that the station follows the AP
DTIM interval rather than the listen interval, which is set in the peer
assoc command. DTIM stick mode is preferable per the firmware team's request.

Apply this only for STA vdevs and only when STA power save is supported, to
avoid affecting unsupported targets and P2P client vdevs.

Tested-on: WCN7850 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HMT.1.1.c7-00108-QCAHMTSWPL_V1.0_V2.0_SILICONZ_UPSTREAM-3

Signed-off-by: Daizhuang Bai <daizhuang.bai@oss.qualcomm.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c | 11 +++++++++++
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wmi.h |  7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c
index 16339469c24c..706104168650 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c
@@ -3985,6 +3985,17 @@ static void ath12k_bss_assoc(struct ath12k *ar,
 		ath12k_warn(ar->ab, "failed to set vdev %i OBSS PD parameters: %d\n",
 			    arvif->vdev_id, ret);
 
+	if (ar->ab->hw_params->supports_sta_ps &&
+	    ahvif->vdev_type == WMI_VDEV_TYPE_STA &&
+	    ahvif->vdev_subtype == WMI_VDEV_SUBTYPE_NONE) {
+		ret = ath12k_wmi_vdev_set_param_cmd(ar, arvif->vdev_id,
+						    WMI_VDEV_PARAM_DTIM_POLICY,
+						    WMI_DTIM_POLICY_STICK);
+		if (ret)
+			ath12k_warn(ar->ab, "failed to set vdev %d stick DTIM policy: %d\n",
+				    arvif->vdev_id, ret);
+	}
+
 	if (test_bit(WMI_TLV_SERVICE_11D_OFFLOAD, ar->ab->wmi_ab.svc_map) &&
 	    ahvif->vdev_type == WMI_VDEV_TYPE_STA &&
 	    ahvif->vdev_subtype == WMI_VDEV_SUBTYPE_NONE)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wmi.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wmi.h
index 51f3426e1fcd..0145cc477944 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wmi.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wmi.h
@@ -2330,6 +2330,13 @@ enum wmi_slot_time {
 	WMI_VDEV_SLOT_TIME_SHORT = 2,
 };
 
+enum wmi_dtim_policy {
+	WMI_DTIM_POLICY_IGNORE = 1,
+	WMI_DTIM_POLICY_NORMAL = 2,
+	WMI_DTIM_POLICY_STICK  = 3,
+	WMI_DTIM_POLICY_AUTO   = 4,
+};
+
 enum wmi_preamble {
 	WMI_VDEV_PREAMBLE_LONG = 1,
 	WMI_VDEV_PREAMBLE_SHORT = 2,

base-commit: 913998f903fb1432c0046c33003db38a9e8bedb1
-- 
2.43.0

On Fri, 17 Jul 2026 07:13:02 +0530, Daizhuang Bai wrote:
> Currently, the station always follows the listen interval regardless of
> the DTIM value. The DTIM function does not work as expected. The default
> value of the listen interval is 5 so that the STA wakes up every 500ms
> when power save is on. This can cause a data transmission delay.
> 
> Set the DTIM policy to DTIM stick mode so that the station follows the AP
> DTIM interval rather than the listen interval, which is set in the peer
> assoc command. DTIM stick mode is preferable per the firmware team's request.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] wifi: ath12k: Set DTIM policy to stick mode for station interface
      commit: 4834ac1d4894a2c3513e8f28d5693170829b1e68

Best regards,
-- 
Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@oss.qualcomm.com>

On 7/17/2026 7:13 AM, Daizhuang Bai wrote:
> Currently, the station always follows the listen interval regardless of
> the DTIM value. The DTIM function does not work as expected. The default
> value of the listen interval is 5 so that the STA wakes up every 500ms
> when power save is on. This can cause a data transmission delay.
> 
> Set the DTIM policy to DTIM stick mode so that the station follows the AP
> DTIM interval rather than the listen interval, which is set in the peer
> assoc command. DTIM stick mode is preferable per the firmware team's request.
> 
> Apply this only for STA vdevs and only when STA power save is supported, to
> avoid affecting unsupported targets and P2P client vdevs.
> 
> Tested-on: WCN7850 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HMT.1.1.c7-00108-QCAHMTSWPL_V1.0_V2.0_SILICONZ_UPSTREAM-3
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daizhuang Bai <daizhuang.bai@oss.qualcomm.com>
Reviewed-by: Rameshkumar Sundaram <rameshkumar.sundaram@oss.qualcomm.com>

On 7/17/2026 9:43 AM, Daizhuang Bai wrote:
> Currently, the station always follows the listen interval regardless of
> the DTIM value. The DTIM function does not work as expected. The default
> value of the listen interval is 5 so that the STA wakes up every 500ms
> when power save is on. This can cause a data transmission delay.
> 
> Set the DTIM policy to DTIM stick mode so that the station follows the AP
> DTIM interval rather than the listen interval, which is set in the peer
> assoc command. DTIM stick mode is preferable per the firmware team's request.
> 
> Apply this only for STA vdevs and only when STA power save is supported, to
> avoid affecting unsupported targets and P2P client vdevs.
> 
> Tested-on: WCN7850 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HMT.1.1.c7-00108-QCAHMTSWPL_V1.0_V2.0_SILICONZ_UPSTREAM-3
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daizhuang Bai <daizhuang.bai@oss.qualcomm.com>

Reviewed-by: Baochen Qiang <baochen.qiang@oss.qualcomm.com>