[PATCH v2] Reduce delay between Assoc REQ and Assoc RESP

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Fri Nov 3 06:19:45 PDT 2023


On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 08:14:24AM +0000, Jurijs Soloveckis wrote:
> There is a delay between sending association response after association request,
> due to the fact that between receiving the request and sending the response
> the beacon is updated, after analyzing inputs from the STA.
> There may be several updates if multiple fields need to change.
> This can cause issues with some devices in noisy environments with many VAPs
> and connected STAs.
> The solution:
> 1. Handle the update of the beacon after association response is sent
> 2. Update the beacon only once, even if there are multiple reasons for updates

Thanks, applied with some cleanup. That said, it does not look like the
solution item 1 would really be part of this patch, i.e., the changes
here seemed to just address the item 2 and the update would still occur
before sending out the Association Response frame.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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