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Re: [RFC 03/15] mac80211: also expire filtered frames

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On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 15:30 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> No particular comments on the code yet but latency issues has got me
> thinking about the filtered frames stuff and if we really need it. How
> much benefit does keeping these frames give us instead of just
> dropping them?

If the station goes to sleep, it'll incur latency by design. The
filtered frames stuff is really just a way to close the race between
giving a packet to the device and the station going to sleep -- as such
I think we should really keep it.

johannes

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