mac80211: retry sending failed BAR frames later instead of tearing down aggr
Unfortunately failed BAR tx attempts happen more frequently than I
expected, and the resulting aggregation teardowns cause performance
issues, as the aggregation session does not always get re-established
properly.
Instead of tearing down the entire aggr session, we can simply store the
SSN of the last failed BAR tx attempt, wait for the first successful
tx status event, and then send another BAR with the same SSN.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.h b/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
index e9eb565..56a3d38 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@
* @stop_initiator: initiator of a session stop
* @tx_stop: TX DelBA frame when stopping
* @buf_size: reorder buffer size at receiver
+ * @failed_bar_ssn: ssn of the last failed BAR tx attempt
+ * @bar_pending: BAR needs to be re-sent
*
* This structure's lifetime is managed by RCU, assignments to
* the array holding it must hold the aggregation mutex.
@@ -106,6 +108,9 @@
u8 stop_initiator;
bool tx_stop;
u8 buf_size;
+
+ u16 failed_bar_ssn;
+ bool bar_pending;
};
/**