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On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 12:33 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez
> <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Just a quick note on the progress of aggregation. It works but we still
> > need to hanld the rtnl_lock() in a sane way. Johannes we proposing we
> > use a workqueue for this.
> >
> > * iwl4965 has been tested to work
> > * ath9k *does* xmit aggregate frames but throughput is low
> >
> > Since ath9k still needs some work we are looking into it.
> > Tomas, have you had a chance to consider the workqueue usage
> > for the rtnl_lock()? I figure to leave that to you as we
> > are still looking into the throughput issues with aggreation with
> > ath9k.
> 
> Also, we currently handle aggregation buffering internally in our
> driver so the whole amdpu_queue stuff is not required for us as we
> don't have internal aggregation schedulers in hardware. For now we'll
> use it though as we just want to get it working and for 2.6.27 we have
> not alternative. For us, what will the ampdu_queues represent then? We
> don't exactly have a limit on this except for the standard limitations
> of 16 TIDs per station so what do you recommend to set this to?

You've only enabled STA mode (and maybe IBSS but there it rarely
matters) so anything like 8-16 would probably be fine.

johannes

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