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Re: [PATCH 8/8] mac80211/iwlwifi: move virtual A-MDPU queue bookkeeping to iwlwifi

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On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 05:28:42PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> This patch removes all the virtual A-MPDU-queue bookkeeping from
> mac80211. Curiously, iwlwifi already does its own bookkeeping, so
> it doesn't require much changes except where it needs to handle
> starting and stopping the queues in mac80211.
> 
> To handle the queue stop/wake properly, we rewrite the software
> queue number for aggregation frames and internally to iwlwifi keep
> track of the queues that map into the same AC queue, and only talk
> to mac80211 about the AC queue. The implementation requires calling
> two new functions, iwl_stop_queue and iwl_wake_queue instead of the
> mac80211 counterparts.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Reinette Chattre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx>

This one I enjoyed the most. Fucking awesome.

Reviewed-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx>

  Luis
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