[rt2x00-users] [PATCH] rt2x00: Update comment about the AMPDU flag in the TXWI

Helmut Schaa helmut.schaa at googlemail.com
Tue Sep 28 09:27:56 UTC 2010


During testing with AMPDUs it turned out that the rt2800 hw will aggregate
consecutive frames with the same RA and TID when the first frame in a
possible aggregate has set AMPDU=1 in the TXWI. If a following frame has
set AMPDU=0 in its TXWI it might sill end up in the aggregate of the
previous frame. Update the comment accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa at googlemail.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800.h |    8 +++++++-
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800.h b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800.h
index 4930d29..4c0bb10 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800.h
@@ -1997,7 +1997,13 @@ struct mac_iveiv_entry {
  *     duplicate the frame to both channels).
  * STBC: 1: STBC support MCS =0-7, 2,3 : RESERVED
  * AMPDU: 1: this frame is eligible for AMPDU aggregation, the hw will
- *        aggregate consecutive frames with the same RA and QoS TID.
+ *        aggregate consecutive frames with the same RA and QoS TID. If
+ *        a frame A with the same RA and QoS TID but AMPDU=0 is queued
+ *        directly after a frame B with AMPDU=1, frame A might still
+ *        get aggregated into the AMPDU started by frame B. So, setting
+ *        AMPDU to 0 does _not_ necessarily mean the frame is sent as
+ *        MPDU, it can still end up in an AMPDU if the previous frame
+ *        was tagged as AMPDU.
  */
 #define TXWI_W0_FRAG			FIELD32(0x00000001)
 #define TXWI_W0_MIMO_PS			FIELD32(0x00000002)
-- 
1.7.1




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