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| author | Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name> | 2017-02-24 11:57:27 +0100 |
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| committer | Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name> | 2017-02-24 12:22:29 +0100 |
| commit | 703515f889124248480f39d65f8704548cbf1c09 (patch) | |
| tree | cd06f11ec2cc4e6ddb75c8982ecaab9882d3a9ed /package/kernel/mac80211/patches/322-mac80211-don-t-handle-filtered-frames-within-a-BA-se.patch | |
| parent | d27dd6298b0f9a66199758b32ce19c0932ef2ee0 (diff) | |
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mac80211: sync with master branch as of 9edff13abd97
Includes the following changes:
9edff13abd mac80211: disable potentially harmful PS software retry for A-MPDU sessions
75216a76b0 mac80211: backport upstream fix for CSA in IBSS mode
368cc8ef47 mac80211: update brcmfmac backporting brcmf_err cleanups
66a63d25c4 mac80211: fix build on linux 3.18
9eacb9d7fc rt2x00: mt7620: lots of improvements
fd94fa61a7 mac80211: brcmfmac: update Raspberry Pi patches for linux 4.9
649e766a64 mac80211: update to wireless-testing 2017-01-31
47540afa5d ath9k: add a warning to the tx99 config option
b367eef21d mac80211: rt2x00: add support for external LNA on MT7620
9200e168f2 mac80211: move (& update) upstream accepted brcmfmac patches
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Diffstat (limited to 'package/kernel/mac80211/patches/322-mac80211-don-t-handle-filtered-frames-within-a-BA-se.patch')
| -rw-r--r-- | package/kernel/mac80211/patches/322-mac80211-don-t-handle-filtered-frames-within-a-BA-se.patch | 28 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/322-mac80211-don-t-handle-filtered-frames-within-a-BA-se.patch b/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/322-mac80211-don-t-handle-filtered-frames-within-a-BA-se.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..66e1bfb4c1 --- /dev/null +++ b/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/322-mac80211-don-t-handle-filtered-frames-within-a-BA-se.patch @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name> +Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 16:13:17 +0100 +Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: don't handle filtered frames within a BA session + +When running a BA session, the driver (or the hardware) already takes +care of retransmitting failed frames, since it has to keep the receiver +reorder window in sync. + +Adding another layer of retransmit around that does not improve +anything. In fact, it can only lead to some strong reordering with huge +latency. + +Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org +Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name> +--- + +--- a/net/mac80211/status.c ++++ b/net/mac80211/status.c +@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ static void ieee80211_handle_filtered_fr + struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr = (void *)skb->data; + int ac; + +- if (info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_PS_BUFFER) { ++ if (info->flags & (IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_PS_BUFFER | ++ IEEE80211_TX_CTL_AMPDU)) { + ieee80211_free_txskb(&local->hw, skb); + return; + } |