On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 13:49 +0530, Sujith wrote: > Johannes Berg wrote: > > 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. > > Something like this ? [snip] yeah, looks good, thanks 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
