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Re: mac80211: sta info locking

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> > Hence, I think we can actually get away without more locking if we
> > protect the flags better. Should we use a spinlock or the atomic
> > set_bit()/clear_bit()/etc. operations?
> 
> Using the atomic operations seems appropriate to me.

Right, but I figured if we could get rid of the AMPDU spinlocks and just
use a single one in total (for flags as well) then that'd be of benefit
too; even with the dynamic allocation strategy (see other mail) we'd not
need to allocate two more spinlocks for ampdu.

johannes

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