No reorder buffer?

[Michal Kazior]

On 24 June 2014 16:47, Denton Gentry <denton.gentry at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm bridging ath10k to Ethernet, gathering pcaps on another ath10k
> system in monitor mode and on the Ethernet system which is receiving
> the packets. I see packets being delivered out of order to the
> Ethernet system. So far as I can tell, any packet which has to be
> re-sent on the Wifi link will be delivered out of order to Ethernet.

As I've mentioned in my other mail - perhaps reordering is disabled in
firmware under some circumstances.

My suspicion is monitor vdev may be involved. It is created in
firmware when you set ath10k interface into promisc mode (bridging
implies that; most sniffers set promisc mode too unless told to not
to, e.g. tcpdump -p).

Can you somehow verify if you observe the reordering problem without
bridging with ethernet (e.g. run traffic to AP w/ bridging and w/o
bridging) ? If it's too much work then forget it :-)


Michał