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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Nikolay Martynov <mar.kolya@gmail.com>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] mac80211: timeout tx agg sessions in way similar to rx agg sessions
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:17:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1322158678.5366.27.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1322016630-27332-1-git-send-email-mar.kolya@gmail.com> (sfid-20111123_035046_552802_8E57CF1D)

On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 21:50 -0500, Nikolay Martynov wrote:
> Currently tx aggregation is not being timed out even if timeout is
> specified when aggregation is opened. Tx tid stays active until delba
> arrives from recipient (i.e. recipient times out tid when it is
> inactive).
>   The problem with this approach is that delba can get lost in the air
> and tx tid will stay perpetually opened on the originator while closed
> on recipient thus all data sent via this tid will be lost.
>  The problem manifests itself with connection becoming slow/unusable
> with ping times jumping to 4s. At such time opened tx tid can be seen
> on one side of the connection without corresponding rx tid one the
> other side. This seems to be happening quite often soon after
> connection on ar9102 I have.
>   This patch implements tx tid timeouting in way very similar to rx tid
> timeouting.
> 
>   All comments and suggestions are appreciated.

Looks OK to me. Did you run it through sparse too? :-)

johannes


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-24 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-23  2:50 [PATCH v2 0/3] mac80211: timeout tx agg sessions in way similar to rx agg sessions Nikolay Martynov
2011-11-23  2:50 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] " Nikolay Martynov
2011-11-23  2:50 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] mac80211: trivial: use WLAN_BACK_RECIPIENT instead of hardcoded 0 Nikolay Martynov
2011-11-23  2:50 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] mac80211: log reason and initiator when rx agg is stopped Nikolay Martynov
2011-11-24 18:17 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2011-11-24 18:34   ` [PATCH v2 0/3] mac80211: timeout tx agg sessions in way similar to rx agg sessions Nikolay Martynov
     [not found]   ` <CALGY4fv6NTRDPUEa-7h+DqaHZwdKnNG4fEmzyHrYZukz3B1gqA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-11-24 18:39     ` Johannes Berg
2011-11-24 18:45       ` Johannes Berg
2011-11-24 18:57         ` Nikolay Martynov
2011-11-25  4:43       ` Nikolay Martynov
2011-11-25  7:34         ` Johannes Berg

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