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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: retry sending failed BAR frames later instead of tearing down aggr

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On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 21:11 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> Unfortunately failed BAR tx attempts happen more frequently than I
>> expected, and the resulting aggregation teardowns cause performance
>> issues, as the aggregation session does not always get re-established
>> properly.

Felix, so this also happens with ath9k (not only rt2800pci)?

> I find this curious. How can tons of traffic go through, but BAR frames
> fail? These are unicast and should be retried a bunch...

As I said before I could only reproduce this very seldom and the failure
was always just a temporary one. Only one or two AMPDUs failed for
whatever reason and the following BAR as well. Afterwards traffic was
going through again.

Helmut
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