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: Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
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