On 2016-07-08 17:53, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote: > Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote: >>> This switches ath9k over to using the mac80211 intermediate software >>> queueing mechanism for data packets. It removes the queueing inside the >>> driver, except for the retry queue, and instead pulls from mac80211 when >>> a packet is needed. The retry queue is used to store a packet that was >>> pulled but can't be sent immediately. >>> >>> The old code path in ath_tx_start that would queue packets has been >>> removed completely, as has the qlen limit tunables (since there's no >>> longer a queue in the driver to limit). >>> >>> Based on Tim's original patch set, but reworked quite thoroughly. >>> >>> Cc: Tim Shepard <shep@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx> >>> Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxx> >> >> Nice work. > > Thanks :) > >> Because this is such a significant change, and to maximise testing >> time, I'm planning to queue this for 4.9 (so I would apply this to >> ath-next in 3-4 weeks after the merge window closes). But anyone who >> wants to test this can use master-pending branch from my ath.git tree >> (uses wireless-testing as the baseline). Sounds good? > > Sounds good to me. I'm planning on backporting this and Michael's > mac80211 FQ-CoDel patches to 4.4 and post them for inclusion in LEDE. > Hopefully that will get it some more testing as well. I've pushed a backport of this into my LEDE staging tree: https://git.lede-project.org/?p=lede/nbd/staging.git;a=summary I don't have time for testing it myself at the moment, but I'll try to get some people to do so. - Felix -- 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
