[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 114/142] mac80211: minstrel_ht: set default tx aggregation timeout to 0

From: Luis Henriques
Date: Tue Mar 22 2016 - 06:52:32 EST


3.16.7-ckt26 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 7a36b930e6ed4702c866dc74a5ad07318a57c688 upstream.

The value 5000 was put here with the addition of the timeout field to
ieee80211_start_tx_ba_session. It was originally added in mac80211 to
save resources for drivers like iwlwifi, which only supports a limited
number of concurrent aggregation sessions.

Since iwlwifi does not use minstrel_ht and other drivers don't need
this, 0 is a better default - especially since there have been
recent reports of aggregation setup related issues reproduced with
ath9k. This should improve stability without causing any adverse
effects.

Acked-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
[ luis: backported to 3.16: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c
index 85c1e74b7714..d4144f8630ef 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ minstrel_aggr_check(struct ieee80211_sta *pubsta, struct sk_buff *skb)
if (skb_get_queue_mapping(skb) == IEEE80211_AC_VO)
return;

- ieee80211_start_tx_ba_session(pubsta, tid, 5000);
+ ieee80211_start_tx_ba_session(pubsta, tid, 0);
}

static void