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Re: [PATCH 10/15] mt76: mt76x02: track approximate tx airtime for airtime fairness and survey

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On 2019-09-27 11:07, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> On 2019-09-27 10:37, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>>> Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> 
>>>> On 2019-09-27 09:45, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>>>>> Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Estimate by calculating duration for EWMA packet size + estimated A-MPDU
>>>>>> length on tx status events
>>>>> 
>>>>> Would it make sense to move some of this code into mac80211? If we're
>>>>> going to do airtime estimation for queue limiting it may make sense to
>>>>> use this instead of the simplistic estimate I used in my RFC patch?
>>>> Sure. I mainly put it in the driver because I wanted to get it working,
>>>> tested and merged first without having to wait for a mac80211-next ->
>>>> wireless-drivers-next merge.
>>> 
>>> Right, OK. So that means another patch set on top of this to move it
>>> afterwards? Don't suppose you can be convinced to take care of that as
>>> well? :)
>> I could, but I don't know when I will have time for it, since my plate
>> is pretty full at the moment.
> 
> Heh, I was afraid you'd say that. That makes two of us; guess we'll see
> who gets around to it first, then :)
> 
> Is there anything in your new airtime.c that is mt76-specific apart from
> the struct mt76_dev and struct mt76_rx_status parameters?
No, I made it as generic as possible to make it easy to move to
mac80211. mt76_rx_status mirrors ieee80211_rx_status very closely, and
going from mt76_dev to ieee80211_hw is easy as well.

- Felix



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