Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote: > When we did the original tests for the optimal value of sk_pacing_shift, we > came up with 6 ms of buffering as the default. Sadly, 6 is not a power of > two, so when picking the shift value I erred on the size of less buffering > and picked 4 ms instead of 8. This was probably wrong; those 2 ms of extra > buffering makes a larger difference than I thought. > > So, change the default pacing shift to 7, which corresponds to 8 ms of > buffering. The point of diminishing returns really kicks in after 8 ms, and > so having this as a default should cut down on the need for extensive > per-device testing and overrides needed in the drivers. > > Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxxxxx> Patch applied to wireless.git, thanks. a41f56b9a17a (HEAD -> mac80211) mac80211: Change default tx_sk_pacing_shift to 7 -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10824427/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
