Re: Another try at getting pktgen to work with wifi.

["Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>]

On 05/31/2013 09:14 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 11:51 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>
>>> What I'm saying though is that I don't see where skb->priority is even
>>> _used_ in the wifi stack. I can see it getting set, but not used.
>>
>> ieee80211_downgrade_queue
>> wme_downgrade_ac // sort of
>> ieee80211_select_queue_80211 // sort of...seems twiddling skb->priority is more of a by-product here.
>>
>> cfg80211_classify8021d
>
> None of this actually matters, it's all within the select_queue() call
> so doesn't need to store it in the skb.
>
> I found it though -- the only thing that ever looks at it is
> ieee80211_set_qos_hdr() to set the QoS header TID, and presumably that's
> what ath9k complains about (hwsim is happy to just push packets.)

Sorry to chime in. The brcmfmac uses cfg80211_classify8021d() as well 
(only when skb->priority equals zero) and puts the return value in 
skb->priority. But also there it is not needed as a few lines below it 
uses it to determine the WWM-AC fifo.

Regards,
Arend