[PATCH] P2P: Make P2P invitation flow less aggressive

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Fri Dec 2 02:34:57 PST 2022


On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 06:43:59PM +0200, Andrei Otcheretianski wrote:
> Currently invitation request wait time is very long and not
> needed for sending a single action frame only.

Alas, it like is needed.. There are some inconveniently slow deployed
devices that can take hundreds of milliseconds to be able to process a
P2P Action frame and get the response out.

> In order to not interfere with other channel activities,
> decrease the wait time to 200ms, or to 100ms in case of
> an active P2P GO on the system.

This sounds like a risky change to do at this point in time. Why would
this be needed now more than ten years after those earlier values had
been selected and having been tested for interoperability issues over
years?

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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