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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: support reporting A-MSDU subframes individually

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On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 15:34 +0200, Michal Kazior wrote:
> Some devices may not be able to report A-MSDUs in
> single buffers. Drivers for such devices were
> forced to re-assemble A-MSDUs which would then
> be eventually disassembled by mac80211. This could
> lead to CPU cache thrashing and poor performance.
> 
> Since A-MSDU has a single sequence number all
> subframes share it. This was in conflict with
> retransmission/duplication recovery
> (IEEE802.11-2012: 9.3.2.10).
> 
> Patch introduces a new flag that is meant to be
> set for all individually reported A-MSDU subframes
> except the last one. This ensures the
> last_seq_ctrl is updated after the last subframe
> is processed. If an A-MSDU is actually a duplicate
> transmission all reported subframes will be
> properly discarded.

Applied.

johannes

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