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

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On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 22:03 -0500, Nikolay Martynov wrote:
> Currently code allows three (HT_AGG_MAX_RETRIES) unanswered addba
> requests. When this limit is reached aggregation is turned off for
> given TID permanently. This doesn't seem right: three requests is
> not that much, some 'blackout' can happen, but effect of it affects
> whole connection indefinitely.
>   This patch increases number of retries to 15. Also, when there have
> been 3 or more retries it splits further retries apart by 15 seconds
> instead of sending them in very short period of time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Martynov <mar.kolya@xxxxxxxxx>

> +	if (sta->ampdu_mlme.addba_req_num[tid] > HT_AGG_BURST_RETRIES &&
> +	   jiffies - sta->ampdu_mlme.last_addba_req_time[tid] <
> +	   HT_AGG_RETRIES_PERIOD) {

You should use the time_after or time_before macros to avoid issues with
jiffies wrapping. Other than that looks good to me.

johannes

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