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Re: [PATCH] ath9k: clean up and fix ath_tx_count_airtime

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On 2017-02-12 16:22, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> ath_tx_count_airtime is doing a lot of unnecessary work:
>>
>> - Redundant station lookup
>> - Redundant rcu_read_lock/unlock
>> - Useless memcpy of bf->rates
>> - Useless NULL check of bf->bf_mpdu
>> - Redundant lookup of the skb tid
>>
>> Additionally, it tries to look up the mac80211 queue index from the txq,
>> which fails if the frame was delivered via the power save queue.
>>
>> This patch fixes all of these issues by passing down the right set of
>> pointers instead of doing extra work
>>
>> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Fixes: 63fefa050477 ("ath9k: Introduce airtime fairness scheduling between stations")
>> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> Not sure if there's anything for stable to do with this; don't think the
> airtime fairness code has gone into a release yet? Otherwise:
> 
> Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxx>
I added this, because I'm not sure this patch will make it to 4.10 in
time, since we're really close to a release. I assume this patch will
probably go into 4.11.

- Felix




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