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

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Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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.

Right, sounds good! Looking forward to the iwlwifi conversion :)

-Toke




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