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authorAndreas Hartmann <andihartmann@01019freenet.de>2012-04-17 00:25:28 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2012-04-17 14:57:13 -0400
commitbe03d4a45c09ee5100d3aaaedd087f19bc20d01f (patch)
tree46ad26ce2561b025adebc8170f6e05ef67f30b89 /drivers/net
parent8edb254c8c08dc2e6cb60e30da00a49f8b102c43 (diff)
rt2x00: Don't let mac80211 send a BAR when an AMPDU subframe fails
There are connection stalls or very poor throughputs with rt2800 hardware using 802.11n in AP mode since patch "mac80211: retry sending failed BAR frames later instead of tearing down aggr"[1][2]. Since rt2800 hardware is not able to correctly report the tx status of BAR frames, this patch removes as workaround the existing error handling on AP side, which lets mac80211 send a BAR when an AMPDU subframe fails. As a result, most wifi clients (aside from Intel STAs on Windows) instead will timeout now the reorder buffer and request the lost frame again. The correct solution would be, to tear down BA session on AP side. This patch was born on the basis of "[RFT] rt2x00: Tear down BA session on QoS frame failure"[3]. Thanks to Helmut Schaa for his support! [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/83297/focus=83304 [2] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git;a=commit;h=f0425beda4d404a6e751439b562100b902ba9c98 [3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.rt2x00.user/569 Signed-off-by: Andreas Hartmann <andihartmann@01019freenet.de> Acked-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
index 90cc5e772650..dd87d41ac936 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
@@ -391,9 +391,10 @@ void rt2x00lib_txdone(struct queue_entry *entry,
tx_info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_STAT_AMPDU;
tx_info->status.ampdu_len = 1;
tx_info->status.ampdu_ack_len = success ? 1 : 0;
-
- if (!success)
- tx_info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_STAT_AMPDU_NO_BACK;
+ /*
+ * TODO: Need to tear down BA session here
+ * if not successful.
+ */
}
if (rate_flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_USE_RTS_CTS) {