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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: reset addba retries after timeout

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Hi.

2011/11/29 Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 17:01 -0500, Nikolay Martynov wrote:
>
>> >>   Do APs broken is such way exist? I.e. APs which declare aggregation
>> >> support but do not respond to addba.
>> >
>> > I seem to remember something ... not really sure.
>>
>>   If such APs exist I think it might be possible to extend my patch to
>> do something like the following. For the first time make 10 attempts
>> to establish addba. If this fails - make no more attempts for the
>> duration of the connection. If this succeeds - use logic I've added in
>> the patch. This should handle broken APs and won't allow agg to be
>> disable because of some random blackout.
>
> Wouldn't that be equivalent to just bumping the number of tries?

  Well, sort of if you are willing to bump it to 10-15, I guess it
would be kind of same thing.
  I've seen couple of times when 3 wasn't enough and agg got disabled,
but 10-15 seems reasonably large to give up completely.

-- 
Truthfully yours,
Martynov Nikolay.
Email: mar.kolya@xxxxxxxxx
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