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authorStanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>2019-08-23 10:09:56 +0300
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>2019-09-03 16:41:15 +0300
commit567a9b766b47caffe4b1bf74823e7bc18532d875 (patch)
treedae2c7bcc257d7a349617f40609e60f6077b4334 /drivers/net/wireless/ralink
parent14aba89386a4c921844886d97930611fc252cce2 (diff)
downloadlinux-567a9b766b47caffe4b1bf74823e7bc18532d875.tar.xz
rt2x00: do not set IEEE80211_TX_STAT_AMPDU_NO_BACK on tx status
According to documentation IEEE80211_TX_STAT_AMPDU_NO_BACK is suppose to be used when we do not recive BA (BlockAck). However on rt2x00 we use it when remote station fail to decode one or more subframes within AMPDU (some bits are not set in BlockAck bitmap). Setting the flag result in sent of BAR (BlockAck Request) frame and this might result of abuse of BA session, since remote station can sent BA with incorrect sequence numbers after receiving BAR. This problem is visible especially when connecting two rt2800 devices. Previously I observed some performance benefits when using the flag when connecting with iwlwifi devices. But currently possibly due to reacent changes in rt2x00 removing the flag has no effect on those test cases. So remove the IEEE80211_TX_STAT_AMPDU_NO_BACK. Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/ralink')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c3
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
index 9d158237ac67..c3eab767bc21 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
@@ -371,9 +371,6 @@ static void rt2x00lib_fill_tx_status(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev,
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_AMPDU;
tx_info->status.ampdu_len = 1;
tx_info->status.ampdu_ack_len = success ? 1 : 0;
-
- if (!success)
- tx_info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_STAT_AMPDU_NO_BACK;
}
if (rate_flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_USE_RTS_CTS) {