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Re: [PATCH v2 05/22] brcmsmac: Use IEEE 802.11 AC levels for pktq precedence levels

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On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 07:42:04PM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 11/15/2012 03:07 PM, Seth Forshee wrote:
> >The mac80211 tx queues and brcmsmac DMA fifos both map directly to AC
> >levels. Therefore it's much more straightforward to queue tx frames and
> >choose the tx fifo based on the mac80211 queue instead of mapping 802.1D
> >priority tags to precedence levels then back to AC levels. mac80211
> >already maps the 802.1D levels to the appropriate AC levels and queues
> >management frames at the maximum priority, so the results should be
> >identical.
> >
> >One functional change resulting from this patch is that AMPDU retries no
> >longer get a priority boost to queue them ahead of packets with the same
> 
> True. I believe the statement actually applies to any retry include
> non-AMPDU.

I don't see that non-AMPDU frames are ever requeued after failed tx. Am
I overlooking soemthing?

Seth

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