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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: add an intermediate software queue implementation

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On Fri, 2014-12-12 at 14:40 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:

> > Then
> > again what even sets vif->txq? Shouldn't those be per-AC? Do you really
> > want to mix 'normal' and txq-TX?
> Are we even using multiple ACs for packets that don't belong to a
> particular sta? I thought normal mcast data frames only use non-QoS
> frames. And yes, I'm currently mixing normal and txq-TX to prioritize
> ctl/mgmt frames over other less important traffic.

Management (and maybe control) frames can have different priorities as
well, this is only used for something with TDLS now I think though.

> > You might consider doing locking differently here - I think you probably
> > don't need the txq->queue spinlock at all since you're in per-AC and
> > mappings are static. Not sure how that interacts with other parts of the
> > code though.
> I wanted to use the lock to give the driver the freedom to call
> ieee80211_tx_dequeue from outside of normal per-AC tx context.

Ok.

johannes

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