From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
To: "linux-wireless" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: [PATCH v2] mac80211: temporarily disable reorder release timer
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 22:35:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201010082235.09355.chunkeey@googlemail.com> (raw)
Several serve threading problems in the current
release reorder timer implementation have been
discovered.
A lengthy discussion - which lists some of the
pitfalls and possible solutions - can be found at:
http://marc.info/?t=128635927000001
But due to the complicated nature of the subject and
the imminent advent of a new -rc cycle, it was
decided to disable the feature for the time being.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
---
v1 -> v2:
fix compiling error
net/mac80211/rx.c: In function ‘ieee80211_sta_reorder_release’:
net/mac80211/rx.c:665: error: label at end of compound statement
---
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index b67221d..aa9b08d 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -622,6 +622,26 @@ static void ieee80211_sta_reorder_release(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
tid_agg_rx->buf_size;
}
+ /*
+ * Disable the reorder release timer for now.
+ *
+ * The current implementation lacks a proper locking scheme
+ * which would protect vital statistic and debug counters
+ * from being updated by two different but concurrent BHs.
+ *
+ * More information about the topic is available from:
+ * - thread: http://marc.info/?t=128635927000001
+ *
+ * What was wrong:
+ * => http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=128636170811964
+ * "Basically the thing is that until your patch, the data
+ * in the struct didn't actually need locking because it
+ * was accessed by the RX path only which is not concurrent."
+ *
+ * List of what needs to be fixed:
+ * => http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=128656352920957
+ *
+
if (tid_agg_rx->stored_mpdu_num) {
j = index = seq_sub(tid_agg_rx->head_seq_num,
tid_agg_rx->ssn) % tid_agg_rx->buf_size;
@@ -640,6 +660,10 @@ static void ieee80211_sta_reorder_release(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
} else {
del_timer(&tid_agg_rx->reorder_timer);
}
+ */
+
+set_release_timer:
+ return;
}
/*
next reply other threads:[~2010-10-08 20:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-08 20:35 Christian Lamparter [this message]
2010-10-08 20:40 ` [PATCH v2] mac80211: temporarily disable reorder release timer Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-08 20:49 ` Christian Lamparter
2010-10-08 21:22 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-08 21:57 ` Christian Lamparter
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