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Re: [RFC] mac80211: re-enable aggregation on 2.6.27

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On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 2:09 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez
<lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 04:06:18PM -0700, Tomas Winkler wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
>> <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Re-enable aggregation by addressing skb->cb overwrites
>> > after insertion into the qdisc. Aggregation was disabled
>> > after the new TX multiqueue changes were introduced. Instead
>> > of relying on the skb->cb we use two flags on the skb.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > ---
>> >
>> > Users have been reporting low rates on 2.6.27 with 11n drivers, the
>> > problem isbeen 11n aggregation was disabled due to the new TX multique
>> > changes. We should have addressed this sooner but we just got to it now.
>> >
>> > Without addressing this we won't get 11n aggregation on 2.6.27. I tried
>> > to minimize the changes required. I'm about to test this, it compiles.
>> >
>> > If this doesn't get upstream for 27 perhaps distributions are willing to
>> > carry it around then and if so oh well (grr...).
>> >
>> I'm cleaning this up.
>
> Great.
>
>> I will probably drop skb->is_part_ampdu so no
>> changes in the drivers will be required.
>
> How so? I mean, if the flag is modified it'll need modification.

I'll Set the original flag (info->flags) in sequence ctrl handler. No
need to keep it through requeuing.
Tomas
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