From: Sujith Manoharan <sujith@msujith.org>
To: linville@tuxdriver.com
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.10] ath9k: prevent aggregation session deadlocks
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 06:30:51 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20889.30147.707771.32138@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1368905295-51440-1-git-send-email-nbd@openwrt.org>
Felix Fietkau wrote:
> Waiting for all subframes of an existing aggregation session to drain
> before allowing mac80211 to start a new one is fragile and deadlocks
> caused by this behavior have been observed.
>
> Since mac80211 has proper synchronization for aggregation session
> start/stop handling, a better approach to session handling is to simply
> allow mac80211 to start a new session at any time. This requires
> changing the code to discard any packets outside of the BlockAck window
> in the A-MPDU software retry code.
>
> This patch implements the above and also simplifies the code.
John,
Can you please drop my patch, "ath9k: Fix TID locking" since it is not necessary
after this one ?
The rest of the pending patches have been rebased and are here:
http://msujith.org/patches/wl/May-20-2013/
Yell at me if you want them to be resent.
Sujith
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-20 1:03 UTC|newest]
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2013-05-18 19:28 [PATCH 3.10] ath9k: prevent aggregation session deadlocks Felix Fietkau
2013-05-20 1:00 ` Sujith Manoharan [this message]
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