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Re: [PATCH] ath6kl: assign Tx packet drop threshold per endpoint based on AC priority

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On 02/09/2012 12:17 PM, Chilam Ng wrote:
> Tx packets will begin to drop when there are multiple traffic priorities
> and the current traffic is not the highest priority and the remaining
> cookies drop below a certain number, which is fixed for all AC. It is
> possilbe that lower priority AC have more traffic which will consume
> more cookies and lock out higher priority AC from having any. Assign
> each endpoint (AC) with a different Tx-packet-drop threshold so lower
> priority AC is more likely to drop packets and the cookies become more
> available to higher priority AC.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chilam Ng <chilamng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied. The real fix of course is to implement multiqueue
support in ath6kl and get rid of the cookie stuff completely. But this
is a good quick fix.

Kalle
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