On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 13:14 +0530, Sujith wrote: > The BlockAck session timout value is currently an arbitrary 5000. > This results in BA sessions being created and torn down incessantly > when mac80211 is used with a driver (say ath9k) in AP mode. > > The 802.11 standard doesn't specify any default value for the timeout field. > And there is no benefit to be gained by tearing down BA sessions and > recreating them. The current value of 5000 doesn't cause any problems, > but it is hard to find an AP/STA in the field that uses a non-zero timeout. Please make it configurable in the request API. Each session consumes one of a very limited number of hardware queues on iwlwifi, and once we go to having multiple connected stations to it as an AP, it would be good to time out idle sessions. johannes -- 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
