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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: nbd@nbd.name
Subject: Re: [RFC 3/6] mac80211: add a TXQ for other powersave-buffered frames
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 13:00:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1498474826.3318.4.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <89353e7a-5c61-eba3-fe34-0e7eadf7588e@candelatech.com>

On Fri, 2017-06-23 at 05:27 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:

> I don't understand the code well enough to know if this matters or
> not, but the ath10k wave-2 stuff has some txq prefetch logic in the
> firmware (and support in the driver).  But, it doesn't prefetch for
> the mgt tid as far as I can tell.  It somehow all mostly works
> anyway, but possibly this would have some effect on your
> changes.  wave-1 (QCA 9880, etc) doesn't do txq prefetch at all.  Any
> tricky changes to this logic would need to test with both chipsets.

I don't think this matters. The issue at hand is that the driver still
relies on mac80211 buffering.

This *can* be solved, even in this piece of code I inserted here, but
it'd have to keep state about the queues and then insert some hooks
elsewhere. I'm pretty sure I can solve that, but don't have the time
(or even hardware) to test this (easily, I have ath10k in a few
routers, but ...).

johannes

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-26 11:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-21 23:50 [RFC 1/6] mac80211: agg-tx: call drv_wake_tx_queue in proper context Johannes Berg
2017-06-21 23:50 ` [RFC 2/6] mac80211: fix VLAN handling with TXQs Johannes Berg
2017-06-21 23:50 ` [RFC 3/6] mac80211: add a TXQ for other powersave-buffered frames Johannes Berg
2017-06-22  0:02   ` Ben Greear
2017-06-22  6:24     ` Johannes Berg
2017-06-22 14:43       ` Ben Greear
2017-06-23  9:21         ` Johannes Berg
2017-06-23 12:27           ` Ben Greear
2017-06-26 11:00             ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2017-06-26 14:15               ` Ben Greear
2017-06-26 14:27                 ` Johannes Berg
2017-06-21 23:50 ` [RFC 4/6] mac80211: don't put null-data frames on the normal TXQ Johannes Berg
2017-06-21 23:50 ` [RFC 5/6] mac80211: add a general fallback TXQ Johannes Berg
2017-06-22  8:48   ` Johannes Berg
2017-06-21 23:50 ` [RFC 6/6] mac80211: always go through txqs Johannes Berg

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