[PATCH v2] ath10k: support msdu chaining.

Ben Greear greearb at candelatech.com
Mon Mar 3 17:08:20 EST 2014


On 02/27/2014 11:51 PM, Michal Kazior wrote:
> On 28 February 2014 02:20,  <greearb at candelatech.com> wrote:
>> From: Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
>>
>> Consolidate the list of msdu skbs into the msdu-head skb, delete the
>> rest of the skbs, pass the msdu-head skb on up the stack as normal.
>>
>> Tested with high-speed TCP and UDP traffic on modified firmware that
>> supports raw-rx.
> 
> As for an umodified firmware I expect ath10k will just re-assemble
> corrupted frames just to have them dropped by mac80211. It might be
> worth checking:
> 
>  if (chaining && fcs_error)
>     drop();

As far as I can tell, packets with bad FCS are dropped earlier in that
rx method?

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com




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