Re: [PATCH] mac80211: use more bits for ack_frame_id

["Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>]

Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:

> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
>
> It turns out that this wasn't a good idea, I hit a test failure in
> hwsim due to this. That particular failure was easily worked around,
> but it raised questions: if an AP needs to, for example, send action
> frames to each connected station, the current limit is nowhere near
> enough (especially if those stations are sleeping and the frames are
> queued for a while.)
>
> Shuffle around some bits to make more room for ack_frame_id to allow
> up to 8192 queued up frames, that's enough for queueing 4 frames to
> each connected station, even at the maximum of 2007 stations on a
> single AP.
>
> We take the bits from band (which currently only 2 but I leave 3 in
> case we add another band) and from the hw_queue, which can only need
> 4 since it has a limit of 16 queues.
>
> Fixes: 6912daed05e1 ("mac80211: Shrink the size of ack_frame_id to make room for tx_time_est")
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

Fair enough :)

Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>