Search Linux Wireless

Re: taprio vs. wireless/mac80211

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Fri, 26 Aug 2022 15:10:36 -0700 Vinicius Costa Gomes wrote:
> Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 24 Aug 2022 23:50:18 +0200 Johannes Berg wrote:  
> >> Anyone have recommendations what we should do?  
> >
> > Likely lack of sleep or intelligence on my side but I could not grok
> > from the email what the stacking is, and what the goal is.
> >
> > Are you putting taprio inside mac80211, or leaving it at the netdev
> > layer but taking the fq/codel out?  
> 
> My read was that they want to do something with taprio with wireless
> devices and were hit by the current limitation that taprio only supports
> multiqueue interfaces.
> 
> The fq/codel part is that, as far as I know, there's already a fq/codel
> implementation inside mac80211.
> 
> The stacking seems to be that packets would be scheduled by taprio and
> then by the scheduler inside mac80211 (fq/codel based?).

Doesn't adding another layer of non-time-aware queuing after taprio
completely defeat its purpose?  Perhaps I'm revealing my lack of
understanding too much..




[Index of Archives]     [Linux Host AP]     [ATH6KL]     [Linux Wireless Personal Area Network]     [Linux Bluetooth]     [Wireless Regulations]     [Linux Netdev]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Linux Kernel]     [IDE]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite Hiking]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux RAID]

  Powered by Linux