mac80211: RX BA support for sta max_rx_aggregation_subframes

The ability to change the max_rx_aggregation frames is useful
in cases of IOP.

There exist some devices (latest mobile phones and some AP's)
that tend to not respect a BA sessions maximum size (in Kbps).
These devices won't respect the AMPDU size that was negotiated during
association (even though they do respect the maximal number of packets).

This violation is characterized by a valid number of packets in
a single AMPDU. Even so, the total size will exceed the size negotiated
during association.

Eventually, this will cause some undefined behavior, which in turn
causes the hw to drop packets, causing the throughput to plummet.

This patch will make the subframe limitation to be held by each station,
instead of being held only by hw.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Altshul <maxim.altshul@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index cca510a585c3..a1457ca2a30c 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -1735,6 +1735,9 @@ struct ieee80211_sta_rates {
  * @supp_rates: Bitmap of supported rates (per band)
  * @ht_cap: HT capabilities of this STA; restricted to our own capabilities
  * @vht_cap: VHT capabilities of this STA; restricted to our own capabilities
+ * @max_rx_aggregation_subframes: maximal amount of frames in a single AMPDU
+ *	that this station is allowed to transmit to us.
+ *	Can be modified by driver.
  * @wme: indicates whether the STA supports QoS/WME (if local devices does,
  *	otherwise always false)
  * @drv_priv: data area for driver use, will always be aligned to
@@ -1775,6 +1778,7 @@ struct ieee80211_sta {
 	u16 aid;
 	struct ieee80211_sta_ht_cap ht_cap;
 	struct ieee80211_sta_vht_cap vht_cap;
+	u8 max_rx_aggregation_subframes;
 	bool wme;
 	u8 uapsd_queues;
 	u8 max_sp;