Return-path: Received: from mail-ea0-f175.google.com ([209.85.215.175]:49884 "EHLO mail-ea0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750855Ab3KTLCg (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Nov 2013 06:02:36 -0500 Received: by mail-ea0-f175.google.com with SMTP id z10so1564221ead.34 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 03:02:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:01:57 +0100 From: Karl Beldan To: Blaise Gassend Cc: Johannes Berg , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Catalin Drula , Alap Modi Subject: Re: QoS Data packets causing massive packet loss in ieee80211_sta_manage_reorder_buf. Message-ID: <20131120110157.GA6993@magnum.frso.rivierawaves.com> (sfid-20131120_120246_351121_8250119E) References: <1384937328.14295.3.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 02:15:27AM -0800, Blaise Gassend wrote: > Hi Johannes, > > Thanks for the quick reply! > > > I think we just need to skip reorder processing for multicast, since > > they won't be aggregated anyway? > > > > http://p.sipsolutions.net/d00799dd2201676a.txt > > This patch works like a charm for my current predicament. But is it > actually written somewhere that multicast packets can't be aggregated? > I can't find any place that says they can't, but I'm not authoritative > by any means. > There's a chapter "A-MPDU aggregation of group addressed data frames" in the specs, however I haven't seen this yet. Karl