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Re: QoS Data packets causing massive packet loss in ieee80211_sta_manage_reorder_buf.

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On Wed, 2013-11-20 at 12:01 +0100, Karl Beldan wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 02:15:27AM -0800, Blaise Gassend wrote:
> > Hi Johannes,
> > 
> > Thanks for the quick reply!
> > 
> > > I think we just need to skip reorder processing for multicast, since
> > > they won't be aggregated anyway?
> > >
> > > http://p.sipsolutions.net/d00799dd2201676a.txt
> > 
> > This patch works like a charm for my current predicament. But is it
> > actually written somewhere that multicast packets can't be aggregated?
> > I can't find any place that says they can't, but I'm not authoritative
> > by any means.
> > 
> There's a chapter "A-MPDU aggregation of group addressed data frames" in
> the specs, however I haven't seen this yet.

Even then though, I don't think there would be any block-ack session,
and thus you wouldn't be able to use the reorder buffer anyway, right?

johannes

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