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RE: [RFT] iwlwifi: dvm: drop non VO frames when flushing

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Grumbach, Emmanuel wrote:
> I can't really tell... I guess it depends on the firmware / hardware. On these
> devices (dvm), the firmware would take a very long time to send / drop the
> packets. I guess it is a bug, and users have been suffering from this for a
> very long time. Thing is that I was educated by the "Thee shall not drop
> packets" mantra. But it appears that sometimes, it is very healthy to drop
> packets to solve the traffic jam. Here, I just drop the packets besides the VO
> queue to allow the roaming mgmt frames to reach their goal (I rely on the fact
> that the VO queue will not be too large...).

Ok.

ath9k does have a timeout, so we drain (drop) all pending frames if flushing
doesn't complete within a reasonable time.

Sujith
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