This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mac80211: send control port protocol frames to the VO queue to the 3.13-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-send-control-port-protocol-frames-to-the-vo-queue.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.13 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 1bf4bbb4024dcdab5e57634dd8ae1072d42a53ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:02:47 +0100 Subject: mac80211: send control port protocol frames to the VO queue From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit 1bf4bbb4024dcdab5e57634dd8ae1072d42a53ac upstream. Improves reliability of wifi connections with WPA, since authentication frames are prioritized over normal traffic and also typically exempt from aggregation. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/mac80211/wme.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) --- a/net/mac80211/wme.c +++ b/net/mac80211/wme.c @@ -153,6 +153,11 @@ u16 ieee80211_select_queue(struct ieee80 return IEEE80211_AC_BE; } + if (skb->protocol == sdata->control_port_protocol) { + skb->priority = 7; + return ieee80211_downgrade_queue(sdata, skb); + } + /* use the data classifier to determine what 802.1d tag the * data frame has */ skb->priority = cfg80211_classify8021d(skb); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.13/ath9k-fix-ps-poll-responses-under-a-mpdu-sessions.patch queue-3.13/mac80211-send-control-port-protocol-frames-to-the-vo-queue.patch queue-3.13/ath9k-fix-invalid-descriptor-discarding.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html