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

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On 2014-12-12 15:01, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 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.
With my implementation, those would go through the normal tx codepath,
bypassing the software tx queues. Can you think of anything else that
would need per-AC vif queues?

- Felix
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