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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2011-04-01 13:52:34 +0200 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2011-04-04 15:22:11 -0400 |
| commit | 5312c3f60ba49073081b2dc421f9f3c22dd43d99 (patch) | |
| tree | ce0a8a64ba88eb044b2c46721086b597fcf46cce /include/net | |
| parent | 8f06ca2c83689f4d352a34ef1c484f40c25b41ed (diff) | |
mac80211: fix comment regarding aggregation buf_size
The description for buf_size was misleading and
just said you couldn't TX larger aggregates, but
of course you can't TX aggregates in a way that
would exceed the window either, which is possible
even if the aggregates are shorter than that.
Expand the description, thanks to Emmanuel for
explaining this to me.
Cc: Emmanuel Grumbach <egrumbach@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/mac80211.h | 15 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h index cefe1b37c493..965f1b16e53a 100644 --- a/include/net/mac80211.h +++ b/include/net/mac80211.h @@ -1753,8 +1753,19 @@ enum ieee80211_ampdu_mlme_action { * that TX/RX_STOP can pass NULL for this parameter. * The @buf_size parameter is only valid when the action is set to * %IEEE80211_AMPDU_TX_OPERATIONAL and indicates the peer's reorder - * buffer size (number of subframes) for this session -- aggregates - * containing more subframes than this may not be transmitted to the peer. + * buffer size (number of subframes) for this session -- the driver + * may neither send aggregates containing more subframes than this + * nor send aggregates in a way that lost frames would exceed the + * buffer size. If just limiting the aggregate size, this would be + * possible with a buf_size of 8: + * - TX: 1.....7 + * - RX: 2....7 (lost frame #1) + * - TX: 8..1... + * which is invalid since #1 was now re-transmitted well past the + * buffer size of 8. Correct ways to retransmit #1 would be: + * - TX: 1 or 18 or 81 + * Even "189" would be wrong since 1 could be lost again. + * * Returns a negative error code on failure. * The callback can sleep. * |