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Re: Aggregation problem with rt2800 AP and Intel 5100 STA

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On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 13:55 +0100, Helmut Schaa wrote:

> So far the tx status as returned by the device look correct. I printed the
> sequence numbers of failed AMPDU subframes and had a second device capturing
> the traffic and compared them.
> 
> But I noticed that there still appear holes from time to time that cause the
> strange Intel driver stuck problem (which is really really strange and IMHO
> the driver has a problem too). And it is not necessarily PS related.
> 
> Johannes, what happens if a frame gets dropped on its way though the tx path
> after getting a seqnr assigned? That would cause a hole in the sequence number
> series without the chance to get a IEEE80211_TX_STAT_AMPDU_NO_BACK tx status.

Yeah that's correct, try not to do that :) It's one of the reasons the
Intel driver assigns its own sequence numbers to AMPDU frames (the other
being some odd seqno/queue place match requirement.)

johannes

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