On 2012-10-29 1:25 PM, Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> The ath9k xmit functions for AMPDUs can send frames as non-aggregate in case
> only one frame is currently available. The client will then answer using a
> normal Ack instead of a BlockAck. This acknowledgement has no TID stored and
> therefore the hardware is not able to provide us the corresponding TID.
>
> The TID set by the hardware in the tx status descriptor has to be seen as
> undefined and not as a valid TID value for normal acknowledgements. Doing
> otherwise results in a massive amount of retransmissions and stalls of
> connections.
>
> Users may experience low bandwidth and complete connection stalls in
> environments with transfers using multiple TIDs.
>
> This regression was introduced in b11b160defc48e4daa283f785192ea3a23a51f8e
> ("ath9k: validate the TID in the tx status information").
>
> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <s...@narfation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <s...@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Nice catch, thanks!
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <n...@openwrt.org>
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