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Commit 0690405f authored by Sara Sharon's avatar Sara Sharon Committed by Luca Coelho
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iwlwifi: mvm: add reorder timeout per frame



Add a timer in order to release expired frames from the
reorder buffer.
This is needed since some APs do not retransmit frames
to fill in the reorder holes and in TCP it results with
a complete stall of traffic.

This has a few side effects on the general design:

The nssn may not reflect the the head of the reorder buffer.
This situation is valid, and packets with SN lower than the
reorder buffer head will be dropped.

Another side effect is that since the reorder timer might expire
we need to lock the reorder buffer.
This however is fine since the locking is only inside a
single reorder buffer between RX path and reorder timeout and
there is no outside contention.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSara Sharon <sara.sharon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLuca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
parent b915c101
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