Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 11:02:50AM +0100, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote: >> >> As explained at great length here: >> https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc17/technical-sessions/presentation/hoilan-jorgesen >> (you already know that of course, Johannes) > > I can understand that wireless needs its own queueing scheme, but it > still seems wrong to place that under net/mac80211 as opposed to > having it as a first-class citizen under net/sched. This is because we need to resolve the MAC-layer destination station (or rather, TID) and tie the queueing to that, because of aggregation. We also use the queueing structure for scheduling stations to achieve airtime fairness. Both of these would be decidedly non-trivial to pull up to the qdisc layer. Rather, having them in mac80211 means drivers don't need to do their own ad-hoc queueing (which was the case before, leading extra bufferbloat). Most of the actual queueing structure code lives in include/net/fq_impl.h, though, so it's not actually that mac80211-specific. I've been thinking about porting the relevant qdiscs to use the same code, but I'm not sure that it's worth the trouble. -Toke
