From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: "ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org" <ath9k-devel@venema.h4ckr.net>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k, multiple stations, and AMPDUs
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:10:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C98848C.70005@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C9841BA.4080700@candelatech.com>
On 2010-09-21 7:25 AM, Ben Greear wrote:
> I think I have narrowed down some problems I see when I create
> two STA interfaces on the same radio and associate with the
> same AP.
>
> I'm using wireless-testing plus some patches to the rx logic
> I posted earlier.
>
> It appears that the ath9k NIC does not transport AMPDUs properly,
> and after a few seconds, it's backlog is exhausted and the queues
> are stopped in ath_tx_start.
ath9k currently looks up the sta by hw and not by vif on tx completion.
That completely breaks aggregation in such a setup. Unfortunately I
don't know an easy way to fix this yet.
This will be fixed by my sw aggregation rewrite, but I don't know when
I'll get that completed yet.
- Felix
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-21 10:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-21 5:25 ath9k, multiple stations, and AMPDUs Ben Greear
2010-09-21 10:10 ` Felix Fietkau [this message]
2010-09-21 12:08 ` [ath9k-devel] " Ben Greear
2010-09-21 12:19 ` Felix Fietkau
2010-09-21 12:24 ` Johannes Berg
2010-09-21 12:31 ` Johannes Berg
2010-09-21 17:25 ` Ben Greear
2010-09-21 18:00 ` Felix Fietkau
2010-09-21 18:04 ` Ben Greear
2010-09-21 18:06 ` Felix Fietkau
2010-09-21 19:28 ` Johannes Berg
2010-09-21 19:32 ` Felix Fietkau
2010-09-21 20:19 ` Ben Greear
2010-09-21 22:41 ` Felix Fietkau
2010-09-22 4:33 ` Ben Greear
2010-09-22 8:31 ` Felix Fietkau
2010-09-23 4:58 ` Ben Greear
2010-09-23 8:33 ` Johannes Berg
2010-09-23 13:56 ` Ben Greear
2010-09-23 14:05 ` Johannes Berg
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