Search Linux Wireless

Re: [PATCH 00/13] ath9k: Channel context support

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 04:00:46PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 19:16 +0530, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
> 
> > These patches adds a basic infrastruture for multi channel
> > context. Currently channel context usage is restricted by
> > modparam "use_chanctx" as it is not yet fully implemented.
> 
> This isn't really a review - just a note. You should probably also tell
> mac80211 that you use multiple HW queues (at least per chanctx) so you
> avoid a situation where stopping one channel context leads to stopping
> the entire traffic for that AC even on other contexts, otherwise you
> could unfairly stop the other interface?
>
Completely agree. IEEE80211_HW_QUEUE_CONTROL support is still in-progress.

> I guess I'm also surprised by the implementation just switching from a
> worker, I would have thought you'd switch from a HW timer interrupt and
> use different hardware queues, but hey :)
>
These are just a preparatory changes for enabling MCC. The actual
scheduler is based on HW timers that will kickstart the worker thread.
Will post all of the changes after completing regression test cycle.

-Rajkumar
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html




[Index of Archives]     [Linux Host AP]     [ATH6KL]     [Linux Wireless Personal Area Network]     [Linux Bluetooth]     [Linux Netdev]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Linux Kernel]     [IDE]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite Hiking]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux RAID]

  Powered by Linux