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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Luis.Rodriguez@atheros.com,
	Jouni.Malinen@atheros.com, tomasw@gmail.com,
	Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mac80211: Re-enable aggregation
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:00:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1224774013.6002.40.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081023145102.GA5816@tuxdriver.com>

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On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 10:55 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 08:10:42PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> wrote:
> > > Wireless HW without any dedicated queues for aggregation
> > > do not need the ampdu_queues mechanism present right now
> > > in mac80211. Since mac80211 is still incomplete wrt TX MQ
> > > changes, do not allow aggregation sessions for drivers that
> > > set ampdu_queues.
> > >
> > > This is only an interim hack until Intel fixes the requeue issue.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@Atheros.com>
> > 
> > Poke.
> 
> Just waiting to see comments from those who understand aggregation
> better than I do...

Who does? Code looks fine to me, but obviously it doesn't really solve
the problem, just adds workarounds for the current ath9k driver. Whether
you want that or not I'll leave up to you.

johannes

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-23 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-21  8:27 [PATCH v3] mac80211: Re-enable aggregation Sujith
2008-10-23  3:10 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-23 14:55   ` John W. Linville
2008-10-23 15:00     ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2008-10-23 16:52     ` Sujith
2008-10-23 17:33       ` Luis R. Rodriguez

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