From: "Natarajan, Vivekanandan" <nataraja@qti.qualcomm.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>, kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath10k@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath10k: Drop probe responses when too many are queued
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 10:52:33 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55E53619.5080402@qti.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55E48151.9080609@candelatech.com>
On 8/31/2015 10:01 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
>
>
> On 08/31/2015 04:04 AM, Vivek Natarajan wrote:
>> In a noisy environment, when multiple interfaces are created,
>> the management tx descriptors are fully occupied by the probe
>> responses from all the interfaces. This prevents a new station
>> from a successful association.
>>
>> Fix this by limiting the probe responses when the specified
>> threshold limit is reached.
>
> Is this useful when firmware supports management-tx over HTT (instead
> of WMI)?
Yes, it is applicable for HTT path. The mgmt frames through the HTT
path use the tx descriptors in the firmware. This patch just prevents
its overuse by probe response frames.
Vivek.
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From: "Natarajan, Vivekanandan" <nataraja@qti.qualcomm.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>, <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>, <ath10k@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath10k: Drop probe responses when too many are queued
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 10:52:33 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55E53619.5080402@qti.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55E48151.9080609@candelatech.com>
On 8/31/2015 10:01 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
>
>
> On 08/31/2015 04:04 AM, Vivek Natarajan wrote:
>> In a noisy environment, when multiple interfaces are created,
>> the management tx descriptors are fully occupied by the probe
>> responses from all the interfaces. This prevents a new station
>> from a successful association.
>>
>> Fix this by limiting the probe responses when the specified
>> threshold limit is reached.
>
> Is this useful when firmware supports management-tx over HTT (instead
> of WMI)?
Yes, it is applicable for HTT path. The mgmt frames through the HTT
path use the tx descriptors in the firmware. This patch just prevents
its overuse by probe response frames.
Vivek.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-01 5:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-31 11:04 [PATCH] ath10k: Drop probe responses when too many are queued Vivek Natarajan
2015-08-31 11:04 ` Vivek Natarajan
2015-08-31 16:31 ` Ben Greear
2015-08-31 16:31 ` Ben Greear
2015-09-01 5:22 ` Natarajan, Vivekanandan [this message]
2015-09-01 5:22 ` Natarajan, Vivekanandan
2015-09-09 9:37 ` Kalle Valo
2015-09-09 9:37 ` Kalle Valo
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