From: Olav Haugan <ohaugan@codeaurora.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
kvalo@codeaurora.org, ath9k-devel@qca.qualcomm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ath9k: implement set_coalesce callback
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 20:12:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151123041250.GA30745@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1446199251.3261.22.camel@sipsolutions.net>
On 15-10-30 11:00:51, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-10-24 at 11:50 -0700, Olav Haugan wrote:
> > implement set_coalesce ieee80211_ops callback. Add default
> > wiphy_coalesce_support rules for 9k. These rules are not being used
> > by 9k since 9k can just toggle coalesce as on/off.
> >
> This seems extremely strange to me - like you're trying to abuse
> set_coalesce, intended for coalescing certain classes of low-importance
> packets, for a completely different purpose (interrupt coalescing)?
>
Hmm, yes. We misunderstood how this API is used. Do you have any
suggestion for how to accomplish what we are trying to do? We can't just
add a new public user space API for this functionality.
--
.Olav
The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum,
a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-23 4:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-24 18:50 [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: add support to set_coalesce Olav Haugan
2015-10-24 18:50 ` [PATCH 2/2] ath9k: implement set_coalesce callback Olav Haugan
2015-10-30 10:00 ` Johannes Berg
2015-11-23 4:12 ` Olav Haugan [this message]
2015-11-23 8:52 ` Johannes Berg
2015-10-30 9:59 ` [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: add support to set_coalesce Johannes Berg
2015-11-23 4:02 ` Olav Haugan
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