From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH *** REVIEW ME ***] mac80211: let flush() drop packets when possible [BUGFIX]
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 09:33:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1421224392.1950.12.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1420638159-16779-1-git-send-email-emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 15:42 +0200, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
> When roaming / suspending, it makes no sense to wait until
> the transmit queues of the device are empty. In extreme
> condition they can be starved (VO saturating the air), but
> even in regular cases, it is pointless to delay the roaming
> because the low level driver is trying to send packets to
> an AP which is far away. We'd rather drop these packets and
> let TCP retransmit if needed. This will allow to speed up
> the roaming.
>
> For suspend, the explanation is even more trivial.
Applied.
johannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-14 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-07 13:42 [PATCH *** REVIEW ME ***] mac80211: let flush() drop packets when possible [BUGFIX] Emmanuel Grumbach
2015-01-07 14:03 ` Sedat Dilek
2015-01-14 8:33 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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