From: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
To: "linville@tuxdriver.com" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
"johannes@sipsolutions.net" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"stable@kernel.org" <stable@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] mac80211: Fix bug in getting rx status for frames pending in reorder buffer
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:11:53 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090325124153.GB29348@vasanth-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1237984249-7177-1-git-send-email-vasanth@atheros.com>
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 06:00:49PM +0530, Vasanth Thiagarajan wrote:
> Currently rx status for frames which are completed from reorder buffer
> is taken from it's cb area which is not always right, cb is not holding
> the rx status when driver uses mac80211's non-irq rx handler to pass it's
> received frames. This results in dropping almost all frames from reorder
> buffer when security is enabled by doing double decryption (first in hw,
> second in sw because of wrong rx status). This patch copies rx status into
> cb area before the frame is put into reorder buffer. After this patch,
> there is a significant improvement in throughput with ath9k + WPA2(AES).
>
> Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
> Cc: stable@kernel.org
> ---
oops, forgot to add Acked by
vasanth
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-25 12:42 UTC|newest]
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2009-03-25 12:30 [PATCH V3] mac80211: Fix bug in getting rx status for frames pending in reorder buffer Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2009-03-25 12:41 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan [this message]
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