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minstrel_ht: fix Open BA session request floods

Minstrel HT tries very hard to establish a BA session with
each peer once there's some data on the way. However the
stack does not inform minstrel if an aggregation session
is already in place, so it keeps trying and wastes good
cycles in the tx status path.

[ 8149.946393] Open BA session requested for $AP tid 0
[ 8150.048765] Open BA session requested for $AP tid 0
[ 8150.174509] Open BA session requested for $AP tid 0
[ 8150.274376] Open BA session requested for $AP tid 0
...

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Christian Lamparter 13 years ago
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1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 2 1
      net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c

+ 2 - 1
net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c

@@ -452,7 +452,8 @@ minstrel_ht_tx_status(void *priv, struct ieee80211_supported_band *sband,
 
 	if (time_after(jiffies, mi->stats_update + (mp->update_interval / 2 * HZ) / 1000)) {
 		minstrel_ht_update_stats(mp, mi);
-		minstrel_aggr_check(mp, sta, skb);
+		if (!(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_AMPDU))
+			minstrel_aggr_check(mp, sta, skb);
 	}
 }