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Re: [PATCH 1/2] ath9k: use ieee80211_tx_status_noskb where possible

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On 2016-08-11 18:05, Zefir Kurtisi wrote:
> On 08/04/2016 11:49 PM, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> It removes the need for undoing the padding changes to skb->data and it
>> improves performance by eliminating one tx status lookup per MPDU in the
>> status path. It is also useful for preparing a follow-up fix to better
>> handle powersave filtering.
>> 
> 
> For me, this one introduces a regression to the statistics, e.g.
> 'dot11TransmittedFragmentCount' is now accounted differently since it is not
> updated from within ieee80211_tx_status_noskb().
Is this important? I guess it would be possible to make this more
accurate by extending the API, but I wonder if that's worth doing just
for these debugfs counters.

- Felix

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