mac80211: add A-MSDU tx support

Requires software tx queueing and fast-xmit support. For good
performance, drivers need frag_list support as well. This avoids the
need for copying data of aggregated frames. Running without it is only
supported for debugging purposes.

To avoid performance and packet size issues, the rate control module or
driver needs to limit the maximum A-MSDU size by setting
max_rc_amsdu_len in struct ieee80211_sta.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
[fix locking issue]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Felix Fietkau
2016-03-03 22:59:00 +01:00
committed by Johannes Berg
parent c9c5962b56
commit 6e0456b545
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@@ -128,6 +128,8 @@ static const char *hw_flag_names[] = {
FLAG(NEEDS_UNIQUE_STA_ADDR),
FLAG(SUPPORTS_REORDERING_BUFFER),
FLAG(USES_RSS),
FLAG(TX_AMSDU),
FLAG(TX_FRAG_LIST),
#undef FLAG
};