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Re: [PATCH v7] mac80211: add an intermediate software queue implementation

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On Fri, 2015-03-27 at 21:30 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> This allows drivers to request per-vif and per-sta-tid queues from which
> they can pull frames. This makes it easier to keep the hardware queues
> short, and to improve fairness between clients and vifs.
> 
> The task of scheduling packet transmission is left up to the driver -
> queueing is controlled by mac80211. Drivers can only dequeue packets by
> calling ieee80211_tx_dequeue. This makes it possible to add active queue
> management later without changing drivers using this code.
> 
> This can also be used as a starting point to implement A-MSDU
> aggregation in a way that does not add artificially induced latency.

Applied, with some minor changes:
 * documentation fixes
 * endian annotation fixes
 * made tracing a bit more efficient

johannes

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