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| author | Naftali Goldstein <naftali.goldstein@intel.com> | 2017-07-11 09:07:32 +0200 |
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| committer | Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com> | 2017-08-09 09:05:01 +0200 |
| commit | 20fc690f38d17b8f961101a477a9aa0841fb6e20 (patch) | |
| tree | b4b1d2f3b94ebdaef58ac1eb9db1d5b530d8f72a /drivers/net/wireless | |
| parent | mac80211: add api to start ba session timer expired flow (diff) | |
| download | linux-20fc690f38d17b8f961101a477a9aa0841fb6e20.tar.xz linux-20fc690f38d17b8f961101a477a9aa0841fb6e20.zip | |
iwlwifi: mvm: send delba upon rx ba session timeout
When an RX block-ack session times out, the firmware, which offloads
RX reordering but not the BA session negotiation, stops the session
but doesn't send a DELBA. This causes the the session to remain
active in the remote device, so no more BA sessions will be
established, causing a severe throughput degradation due to the lack
of aggregation.
Use the new ieee80211_rx_ba_timer_expired API when the ba session timer
expires, since this will tear down the ba session and also send a delba.
The previous API used is intended for drivers that offload the
addba/delba negotiation, but not the rx reordering, while our driver
does the opposite.
This patch depends on "mac80211: add api to start ba session timer
expired flow".
Signed-off-by: Naftali Goldstein <naftali.goldstein@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/sta.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/sta.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/sta.c index dcaef7c043ac..027ee5e72172 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/sta.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/sta.c @@ -291,8 +291,8 @@ static void iwl_mvm_rx_agg_session_expired(unsigned long data) goto unlock; mvm_sta = iwl_mvm_sta_from_mac80211(sta); - ieee80211_stop_rx_ba_session_offl(mvm_sta->vif, - sta->addr, ba_data->tid); + ieee80211_rx_ba_timer_expired(mvm_sta->vif, + sta->addr, ba_data->tid); unlock: rcu_read_unlock(); } |