Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On 2016-07-08 18:28, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote: >> Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> 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 >> >> Awesome! What about the FQ-CoDel mac80211 patches themselves? I have a >> tree where I've separated out the needed patches and rebased them on >> mainline 4.4.9. Can I post that somewhere (or just email you the series) >> and get you to include those as well? Or do I just dump the patch files >> into the LEDE patches dir and send that as a patch to LEDE? (I see your >> patch also refreshed subsequent patches; is there a script to do that >> automatically?) > You don't need to do anything here. LEDE does not use mac80211 and > drivers from the kernel tree, it's built using backports. > It's currently using a backports snapshot that I built myself from > wireless-testing 2016-06-20, which already includes FQ-Codel. Ah, didn't know that. Cool; and thanks for taking care of the backporting :) -Toke -- 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
