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Re: [PATCH 5/5] mac80211: set NETIF_F_LLTX when using intermediate tx queues

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On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 11:33:50AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 10:33 +0100, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> > 
> > > It is true because we have an entire buffering layer in mac80211 (in
> > > this case at least) and never push back to the stack.
> > 
> > I'm wondering if we should be?
> 
> I don't think so? We'd just buffer packets in yet another place.

But you do realise that you're giving up on the rich queueing
functionality that Linux provides (net/sched), not to mention
breaking certain applications that rely on congestion feedback?

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