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Re: [PATCH 3/4] mac80211: fix low throughput in push pull mode

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Without really looking at the code - 

> If station is ineligible for transmission in ieee80211_txq_may_transmit(),
> no packet will be delivered to FW. During the tests in push-pull mode with
> many clients, after several seconds, not a single station is an eligible
> candidate for transmission since global time is smaller than all the
> station's virtual airtime. As a consequence, the Tx has been blocked and
> throughput is quite low.

You should rewrite this to be, erm, a bit more understandable in
mac80211 context. I assume you're speaking (mostly?) about ath10k, but I
have very little context there. "push pull mode"? "firmware"? These
things are not something mac80211 knows about.

> Co-developed-by: Yibo Zhao <yiboz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

That also seems wrong, should be Toke I guess, unless you intended for a
From: Toke to be present?

johannes





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