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mac80211: track receiver's aggregation reorder buffer size
authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:51:05 +0000 (13:51 +0100)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:36:11 +0000 (11:36 -0500)
commit0b01f030d38e00650e2db42da083d8647aad40a5
tree14519750d9b6cdb046624dd87d5323a4826821e2
parentac1bd8464f161ed1475ef73c431b926256c6b5bb
mac80211: track receiver's aggregation reorder buffer size

The aggregation code currently doesn't implement the
buffer size negotiation. It will always request a max
buffer size (which is fine, if a little pointless, as
the mac80211 code doesn't know and might just use 0
instead), but if the peer requests a smaller size it
isn't possible to honour this request.

In order to fix this, look at the buffer size in the
addBA response frame, keep track of it and pass it to
the driver in the ampdu_action callback when called
with the IEEE80211_AMPDU_TX_OPERATIONAL action. That
way the driver can limit the number of subframes in
aggregates appropriately.

Note that this doesn't fix any drivers apart from the
addition of the new argument -- they all need to be
updated separately to use this variable!

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
17 files changed:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/main.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_main.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/main.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.h
drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.h
drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/core.c
include/net/mac80211.h
net/mac80211/agg-rx.c
net/mac80211/agg-tx.c
net/mac80211/driver-ops.h
net/mac80211/driver-trace.h
net/mac80211/sta_info.h