This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mac80211: RX BA support for sta max_rx_aggregation_subframes
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mac80211-rx-ba-support-for-sta-max_rx_aggregation_subframes.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 480dd46b9d6812e5fb7172c305ee0f1154c26eed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maxim Altshul <maxim.altshul@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:14:04 +0300
Subject: mac80211: RX BA support for sta max_rx_aggregation_subframes
From: Maxim Altshul <maxim.altshul@xxxxxx>
commit 480dd46b9d6812e5fb7172c305ee0f1154c26eed upstream.
The ability to change the max_rx_aggregation frames is useful
in cases of IOP.
There exist some devices (latest mobile phones and some AP's)
that tend to not respect a BA sessions maximum size (in Kbps).
These devices won't respect the AMPDU size that was negotiated during
association (even though they do respect the maximal number of packets).
This violation is characterized by a valid number of packets in
a single AMPDU. Even so, the total size will exceed the size negotiated
during association.
Eventually, this will cause some undefined behavior, which in turn
causes the hw to drop packets, causing the throughput to plummet.
This patch will make the subframe limitation to be held by each station,
instead of being held only by hw.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Altshul <maxim.altshul@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/net/mac80211.h | 4 ++++
net/mac80211/agg-rx.c | 7 +++++--
net/mac80211/sta_info.c | 3 +++
3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -1662,6 +1662,9 @@ struct ieee80211_sta_rates {
* @supp_rates: Bitmap of supported rates (per band)
* @ht_cap: HT capabilities of this STA; restricted to our own capabilities
* @vht_cap: VHT capabilities of this STA; restricted to our own capabilities
+ * @max_rx_aggregation_subframes: maximal amount of frames in a single AMPDU
+ * that this station is allowed to transmit to us.
+ * Can be modified by driver.
* @wme: indicates whether the STA supports QoS/WME (if local devices does,
* otherwise always false)
* @drv_priv: data area for driver use, will always be aligned to
@@ -1688,6 +1691,7 @@ struct ieee80211_sta {
u16 aid;
struct ieee80211_sta_ht_cap ht_cap;
struct ieee80211_sta_vht_cap vht_cap;
+ u8 max_rx_aggregation_subframes;
bool wme;
u8 uapsd_queues;
u8 max_sp;
--- a/net/mac80211/agg-rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/agg-rx.c
@@ -290,10 +290,13 @@ void __ieee80211_start_rx_ba_session(str
buf_size = IEEE80211_MAX_AMPDU_BUF;
/* make sure the size doesn't exceed the maximum supported by the hw */
- if (buf_size > local->hw.max_rx_aggregation_subframes)
- buf_size = local->hw.max_rx_aggregation_subframes;
+ if (buf_size > sta->sta.max_rx_aggregation_subframes)
+ buf_size = sta->sta.max_rx_aggregation_subframes;
params.buf_size = buf_size;
+ ht_dbg(sta->sdata, "AddBA Req buf_size=%d for %pM\n",
+ buf_size, sta->sta.addr);
+
/* examine state machine */
mutex_lock(&sta->ampdu_mlme.mtx);
--- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
@@ -329,6 +329,9 @@ struct sta_info *sta_info_alloc(struct i
memcpy(sta->addr, addr, ETH_ALEN);
memcpy(sta->sta.addr, addr, ETH_ALEN);
+ sta->sta.max_rx_aggregation_subframes =
+ local->hw.max_rx_aggregation_subframes;
+
sta->local = local;
sta->sdata = sdata;
sta->rx_stats.last_rx = jiffies;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from maxim.altshul@xxxxxx are
queue-4.4/mac80211-rx-ba-support-for-sta-max_rx_aggregation_subframes.patch
queue-4.4/wlcore-add-rx_ba_win_size_change_event-event.patch
queue-4.4/wlcore-pass-win_size-taken-from-ieee80211_sta-to-fw.patch