[PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 16/98] mac80211: minstrel_ht: set default tx aggregation timeout to 0

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Mar 15 23:30:10 UTC 2016


4.2.8-ckt6 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Felix Fietkau <nbd at openwrt.org>

commit 7a36b930e6ed4702c866dc74a5ad07318a57c688 upstream.

The value 5000 was put here with the addition of the timeout field to
ieee80211_start_tx_ba_session. It was originally added in mac80211 to
save resources for drivers like iwlwifi, which only supports a limited
number of concurrent aggregation sessions.

Since iwlwifi does not use minstrel_ht and other drivers don't need
this, 0 is a better default - especially since there have been
recent reports of aggregation setup related issues reproduced with
ath9k. This should improve stability without causing any adverse
effects.

Acked-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd at openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c
index d3bdc66..e12006c 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c
@@ -691,7 +691,7 @@ minstrel_aggr_check(struct ieee80211_sta *pubsta, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	if (likely(sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_tx[tid]))
 		return;
 
-	ieee80211_start_tx_ba_session(pubsta, tid, 5000);
+	ieee80211_start_tx_ba_session(pubsta, tid, 0);
 }
 
 static void
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2.7.0





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