From: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On loaded systems with lots of VIFs, I see lots of beacon timeouts, even though the connection to the AP is very good. Allow tuning the beacon-loss-count variable to give the system longer to process beacons if the user prefers. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- :100644 100644 da805e2... 1f1e889... M net/mac80211/mlme.c net/mac80211/mlme.c | 7 +++++-- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c index da805e2..1f1e889 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c @@ -54,7 +54,10 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_probe_tries, * probe on beacon miss before declaring the connection lost * default to what we want. */ -#define IEEE80211_BEACON_LOSS_COUNT 7 +static int beacon_loss_count = 7; +module_param(beacon_loss_count, int, 0644); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(beacon_loss_count, + "Number of beacon intervals before we decide beacon was lost."); /* * Time the connection can be idle before we probe @@ -1319,7 +1322,7 @@ static void ieee80211_set_associated(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, bss_conf->assoc_capability, bss->has_erp_value, bss->erp_value); sdata->u.mgd.beacon_timeout = usecs_to_jiffies(ieee80211_tu_to_usec( - IEEE80211_BEACON_LOSS_COUNT * bss_conf->beacon_int)); + beacon_loss_count * bss_conf->beacon_int)); sdata->u.mgd.associated = cbss; memcpy(sdata->u.mgd.bssid, cbss->bssid, ETH_ALEN); -- 1.7.3.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
