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authorNikolay Martynov <mar.kolya@gmail.com>2011-12-18 01:39:35 +0100
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2011-12-19 20:31:37 +0100
commit84381b4ed58498e1e3d49a4a306fec9894b8e00c (patch)
tree3a11594d7becb06f2cc0344f13fb4ac06c0e4177 /net/mac80211/agg-tx.c
parentMerge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/padova... (diff)
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mac80211: split addba retries in time
Currently code allows three (HT_AGG_MAX_RETRIES) unanswered addba requests. When this limit is reached aggregation is turned off for given TID permanently. This doesn't seem right: three requests is not that much, some 'blackout' can happen, but effect of it affects whole connection indefinitely. This patch increases number of retries to 15. Also, when there have been 3 or more retries it splits further retries apart by 15 seconds instead of sending them in very short period of time. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Martynov <mar.kolya@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/agg-tx.c')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/agg-tx.c19
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/agg-tx.c b/net/mac80211/agg-tx.c
index e92f98d32746..76be61744198 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/agg-tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/agg-tx.c
@@ -392,6 +392,7 @@ void ieee80211_tx_ba_session_handle_start(struct sta_info *sta, int tid)
#endif
spin_lock_bh(&sta->lock);
+ sta->ampdu_mlme.last_addba_req_time[tid] = jiffies;
sta->ampdu_mlme.addba_req_num[tid]++;
spin_unlock_bh(&sta->lock);
@@ -492,6 +493,24 @@ int ieee80211_start_tx_ba_session(struct ieee80211_sta *pubsta, u16 tid,
goto err_unlock_sta;
}
+ /*
+ * if we have tried more than HT_AGG_BURST_RETRIES times we
+ * will spread our requests in time to avoid stalling connection
+ * for too long
+ */
+ if (sta->ampdu_mlme.addba_req_num[tid] > HT_AGG_BURST_RETRIES &&
+ time_before(jiffies, sta->ampdu_mlme.last_addba_req_time[tid] +
+ HT_AGG_RETRIES_PERIOD)) {
+#ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_HT_DEBUG
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "BA request denied - "
+ "waiting a grace period after %d failed requests "
+ "on tid %u\n",
+ sta->ampdu_mlme.addba_req_num[tid], tid);
+#endif /* CONFIG_MAC80211_HT_DEBUG */
+ ret = -EBUSY;
+ goto err_unlock_sta;
+ }
+
tid_tx = rcu_dereference_protected_tid_tx(sta, tid);
/* check if the TID is not in aggregation flow already */
if (tid_tx || sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_start_tx[tid]) {