Revert "mac80211: temporarily disable reorder release timer"
authorChristian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:29:53 +0000 (17:29 +0100)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tue, 4 Jan 2011 19:46:13 +0000 (14:46 -0500)
This reverts enables the reorder release timer once again.

The issues laid out in:
<http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg57214.html>

Have been addressed by:
mac80211: serialize rx path workers
mac80211: ignore PSM bit of reordered frames

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
net/mac80211/rx.c

index 12cbb4d..9595e56 100644 (file)
@@ -628,26 +628,6 @@ static void ieee80211_sta_reorder_release(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
                                                        tid_agg_rx->buf_size;
        }
 
-       /*
-        * Disable the reorder release timer for now.
-        *
-        * The current implementation lacks a proper locking scheme
-        * which would protect vital statistic and debug counters
-        * from being updated by two different but concurrent BHs.
-        *
-        * More information about the topic is available from:
-        * - thread: http://marc.info/?t=128635927000001
-        *
-        * What was wrong:
-        * =>  http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=128636170811964
-        * "Basically the thing is that until your patch, the data
-        *  in the struct didn't actually need locking because it
-        *  was accessed by the RX path only which is not concurrent."
-        *
-        * List of what needs to be fixed:
-        * => http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=128656352920957
-        *
-
        if (tid_agg_rx->stored_mpdu_num) {
                j = index = seq_sub(tid_agg_rx->head_seq_num,
                                    tid_agg_rx->ssn) % tid_agg_rx->buf_size;
@@ -666,10 +646,6 @@ static void ieee80211_sta_reorder_release(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
        } else {
                del_timer(&tid_agg_rx->reorder_timer);
        }
-       */
-
-set_release_timer:
-       return;
 }
 
 /*