[PATCH 1/2] wifi: mac80211: introduce ieee80211_refresh_tx_agg_session_timer()

[Johannes Berg]

On Fri, 2023-02-17 at 18:43 +0000, Ryder Lee wrote:
> On Fri, 2023-02-17 at 19:01 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Sat, 2023-02-18 at 01:50 +0800, Ryder Lee wrote:
> > > This allows low level drivers to refresh the tx agg session timer,
> > > based on
> > > querying stats from the firmware usually. Especially for some mt76
> > > devices
> > > support .net_fill_forward_path would bypass mac80211, which leads
> > > to tx BA
> > > session timeout for certain clients.
> > > 
> > 
> > Does it even matter? We could just request sessions without a timeout
> > in
> > the first place.
> > 
> 
> I think we're already. Our main issue is performance periodically drops
> every few seconds when .net_fill_forward_path is enabled. Wireless
> client have normal 500+ Mb/s iperf3 download speed for several seconds.
> Then it drops less than 100 Mb/s for several seconds. Then everything
> repeats. Issue occurs only on certain clients. (i.e. Intel cards AX200,
> AX1675, Advanced-N 6235 in Win11)
> 

Strange. But how does this patch do anything about it, that should be
completely client agnostic?

johannes