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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
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On 09/19/2011 09:38 PM, Kalle Valo wrote:
> When pinging form ar6003 to the AP RTT was high even when power save was
> disabled:
> 
> 100 packets transmitted, 97 received, 3% packet loss, time 99125ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.875/46.733/795.506/139.181 ms
> 
> After some investigation one reason for this was that received
> multicast traffic confused the aggrecation logic and caused 400 ms
> timeouts when receiving multicast frames from AP.
> 
> A simple way to fix is to pass only unicast frames for aggregation. This
> improves RTT:
> 
> 100 packets transmitted, 99 received, 1% packet loss, time 99144ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2.083/13.084/403.390/56.794 ms

Applied.

Kalle