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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: don't put null-data frames on the normal TXQ

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On Tue, 2018-07-03 at 16:31 +0200, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Since (QoS) NDP frames shouldn't be put into aggregation nor are
> > assigned real sequence numbers, etc. it's better to treat them as
> > non-data packets and not put them on the normal TXQs, for example
> > when building A-MPDUs they need to be treated specially, and they
> > are more used for management (e.g. to see if the station is alive)
> > anyway.
> 
> No objections to this per se;

:-)

> but didn't we want to move towards
> everything going through the TXQs? Any progress on that front? :)

Not really. Yes, I wanted to, but it's some massive surgery. Right now
I'm working on converting iwlwifi, perhaps I'll learn about it more and
can then do the mac80211 surgery better later.

johannes



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