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Tim Harvey 91f44b0299 mac80211 default tx_last_beacon false (congestion) 
The 802.11 spec states that the STA that generated the last Beacon frame shall
be the STA that response to a probe request.  This is important for congestion
reduction when a probe request is received - only 1 node in an adhoc BSS
will transmit a response.  While mac80211 drivers should provide the
tx_last_beacon function to report if they transmitted the last beacon many
do not.  As an attempt to reduce probe response congestion default this
to 0 such that a node not implementing this capability does not contribute
to unnecessary congestion.

In a modern medium sized office environment I see upwards of 100 probe
requests per second received at a given node from various hardware/OS/drivers
doing zeroconf 'active probing' as opposed to passively listening for beacons.
With a modest 10-node adhoc network consisting of drivers that do not implement
this tx_last_beacon feature, I have seen this result in the simultaneous xmit
of probe responses accumulating to 500 probe responses per second because of
collisions which brings the adhoc network to its knees as well as causes
needless congestion.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
 		2010-12-13 15:23:29 -05:00
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9p net/9p: Return error on read with NULL buffer 2010-10-28 09:08:49 -05:00
802 net/802: add __rcu annotations 2010-10-25 13:09:44 -07:00
8021q vlan: rcu annotations 2010-10-25 13:09:43 -07:00
appletalk Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-04-11 14:53:53 -07:00
atm Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2010-10-23 11:47:02 -07:00
ax25 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2010-10-24 13:41:39 -07:00
bluetooth Bluetooth: clean up hci code 2010-12-01 21:04:43 -02:00
bridge bridge: Forward reserved group addresses if !STP 2010-10-21 04:25:48 -07:00
caif Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-10-06 19:39:31 -07:00
can can-raw: add msg_flags to distinguish local traffic 2010-10-21 04:27:03 -07:00
ceph ceph: fix num_pages_free accounting in pagelist 2010-10-20 15:38:23 -07:00
core pktgen: Limit how much data we copy onto the stack. 2010-10-28 11:47:53 -07:00
dcb include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
dccp dccp ccid-2: Stop polling 2010-10-28 10:27:01 -07:00
decnet net dst: use a percpu_counter to track entries 2010-10-11 13:06:53 -07:00
dns_resolver DNS: If the DNS server returns an error, allow that to be cached [ver #2] 2010-08-11 17:11:28 +00:00
dsa phylib: available for any speed ethernet 2010-08-11 23:03:50 -07:00
econet net: return operator cleanup 2010-09-23 14:33:39 -07:00
ethernet net: return operator cleanup 2010-09-23 14:33:39 -07:00
ieee802154 ieee802154: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in wpan_phy_alloc 2010-05-23 23:11:07 -07:00
ipv4 ip_gre: fix fallback tunnel setup 2010-10-30 16:21:28 -07:00
ipv6 ipv6/udp: report SndbufErrors and RcvbufErrors 2010-10-30 16:17:23 -07:00
ipx BKL: introduce CONFIG_BKL. 2010-10-21 15:44:13 +02:00
irda Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2010-10-24 13:41:39 -07:00
iucv [S390] cleanup lowcore access from external interrupts 2010-10-25 16:10:19 +02:00
key net: return operator cleanup 2010-09-23 14:33:39 -07:00
l2tp l2tp: static functions should not be exported 2010-10-24 22:26:41 -07:00
lapb include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
llc net/llc: storing negative error codes in unsigned short 2010-09-16 22:38:23 -07:00
mac80211 mac80211 default tx_last_beacon false (congestion) 2010-12-13 15:23:29 -05:00
netfilter netfilter: xt_socket: Make tproto signed in socket_mt6_v1(). 2010-10-28 12:59:53 -07:00
netlabel net: Remove unnecessary returns from void function()s 2010-05-17 23:23:14 -07:00
netlink netlink: fix netlink_change_ngroups() 2010-10-24 16:25:39 -07:00
netrom net: sk_sleep() helper 2010-04-20 16:37:13 -07:00
packet net: simplify flags for tx timestamping 2010-08-19 00:08:30 -07:00
phonet phonet: remove the unused variable pn 2010-10-20 01:55:54 -07:00
rds RDS: Let rds_message_alloc_sgs() return NULL 2010-10-30 16:34:18 -07:00
rfkill rfkill: remove dead code 2010-11-15 13:24:06 -05:00
rose Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-09-27 01:03:03 -07:00
rxrpc Add a dummy printk function for the maintenance of unused printks 2010-08-12 09:51:35 -07:00
sched Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2010-10-23 11:47:02 -07:00
sctp Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2010-10-23 11:47:02 -07:00
sunrpc convert get_sb_single() users 2010-10-29 04:16:28 -04:00
tipc Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-10-21 08:43:05 -07:00
unix fs: allow for more than 2^31 files 2010-10-26 16:52:15 -07:00
wanrouter fix printk typo 'faild' 2010-08-09 11:25:17 +02:00
wimax Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2010-05-20 21:04:44 -07:00
wireless cfg80211/nl80211: separate unicast/multicast default TX keys 2010-12-13 15:23:28 -05:00
x25 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2010-10-23 11:47:02 -07:00
xfrm xfrm: make xfrm_bundle_ok local 2010-10-21 03:09:46 -07:00
Kconfig ceph: factor out libceph from Ceph file system 2010-10-20 15:37:28 -07:00
Makefile ceph: factor out libceph from Ceph file system 2010-10-20 15:37:28 -07:00
TUNABLE
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compat.c net: Limit socket I/O iovec total length to INT_MAX. 2010-10-28 11:47:52 -07:00
nonet.c llseek: automatically add .llseek fop 2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
socket.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-10-30 18:42:58 -07:00
sysctl_net.c net: Remove unnecessary returns from void function()s 2010-05-17 23:23:14 -07:00