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> > Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx> Depends on: bb42f2d13ffc mac80211: Move reorder-sensitive TX handlers to after TXQ dequeue Patch set to Awaiting Upstream. -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9311037/ Documentation about submitting wireless patches and checking status from patchwork: https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
