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Re: [ath9k-devel] [RFC] ath9k: fix tx queue selection

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Am Dienstag 02 November 2010 schrieb Felix Fietkau:
> On 2010-11-02 5:13 PM, Björn Smedman wrote:
> > The following patch attempts to fix some problems with ath9k tx queue 
> > selection:
> > 
> > 1. There was a posible mismatch between the queue selected for QoS packets 
> > (on which locking, queue start/stop and statistics where performed) and 
> > the queue actually used for TX. This is fixed by selecting the tx queue 
> > based on the TID of the 802.11 header for this type of packet.
> This should not be necessary. mac80211 should take care of queue
> selection properly for QoS frames. If it doesn't, then that is the bug
> that needs to be fixed...

Not sure if this is related but I had some issues with rt2800pci and tx queue
selection as well. This was caused by a bug in the net stack. See [1] for the
details.

I don't have any clue if this also affects ath9k but this issue sounds similar.

Helmut

[1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg139832.html
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