Thread (9 messages) 9 messages, 4 authors, 2011-08-29

Re: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: add flag to indicate HW only Tx-agg support

From: Arik Nemtsov <hidden>
Date: 2011-08-29 19:43:42

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 09:21, Johannes Berg [off-list ref] wrote:
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 12:51 +0300, Arik Nemtsov wrote:
quoted
When this flag is set, Tx aggregations will not be initiated even
if the hardware supports A-MPDU aggregation in general. This flag
is required for devices supporting (partial) software Rx-aggregation.

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <redacted>
---
 include/net/mac80211.h |    4 ++++
 net/mac80211/agg-tx.c  |    3 ++-
 net/mac80211/debugfs.c |    2 ++
 net/mac80211/tx.c      |    3 ++-
 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 2f01d84..b21a5bb 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -1094,6 +1094,9 @@ enum sta_notify_cmd {
  *   stations based on the PM bit of incoming frames.
  *   Use ieee80211_start_ps()/ieee8021_end_ps() to manually configure
  *   the PS mode of connected stations.
+ *
+ * @IEEE80211_HW_TX_AMPDU_IN_HW_ONLY: The device handles TX aggregation
+ *   strictly in HW. Packets should not be aggregated in software.
In addition to the discussion with Helmut -- this is also misleading
since mac80211 doesn't, right now, aggregate anything in software -- it
just handles session setup (which is what you don't want).
Sure. I'll rename it to something like
IEEE80211_HW_TX_AMPDU_SETUP_IN_HW (and change the description).

Arik
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