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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] iwlwifi: mvm: don't send the IWL_MVM_RXQ_NSSN_SYNC
 notif to Rx queues
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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        Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>,
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Date:   Wed, 22 Jan 2020 17:26:09 +0000 (UTC)
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Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> wrote:

> The purpose of this was to keep all the queues updated with
> the Rx sequence numbers because unlikely yet possible
> situations where queues can't understand if a specific
> packet needs to be dropped or not.
> 
> Unfortunately, it was reported that this caused issues in
> our DMA engine. We don't fully understand how this is related,
> but this is being currently debugged. For now, just don't send
> this notification to the Rx queues. This de-facto reverts my
> commit 3c514bf831ac12356b695ff054bef641b9e99593:
> 
> iwlwifi: mvm: add a loose synchronization of the NSSN across Rx queues
> 
> This issue was reported here:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204873
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205001
> and others maybe.
> 
> Fixes: 3c514bf831ac ("iwlwifi: mvm: add a loose synchronization of the NSSN across Rx queues")
> CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.3+
> Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers.git, thanks.

d829229e35f3 iwlwifi: mvm: don't send the IWL_MVM_RXQ_NSSN_SYNC notif to Rx queues

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11270795/

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