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From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH next] drivers: wireless: carl9170: shrink carl9170_tx_info
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 12:51:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1689955.Ikz24aORLX@debian64> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1426261045-22373-1-git-send-email-fw@strlen.de>

On Friday, March 13, 2015 04:37:25 PM Florian Westphal wrote:
> its embededded inside rate_driver_data of the ieee80211_tx_info struct,
> which in turn is stored in skb->cb[].
> 
> In order to shrink cb, we need to shrink ieee80211_tx_info which means
> to downsize all users first.
> 
> Alternatively, one might be able to remove kref but
> its less intrusive/simpler to use u32 for timeout handling.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
> ---
u32 jiffies... that's a lot of pointing (well not so much) and really 
ugly casting (a lot). I guess it would be easier to just use a "per-queue"
timeout watchdog like almost everybody else. This way, the driver will
be ready for the next skb->cb shrink as well.

carl9170_tx_ampdu_timeout can be completely removed.

Regards,
  Christian

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-14 11:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-13 15:37 [PATCH next] drivers: wireless: carl9170: shrink carl9170_tx_info Florian Westphal
2015-03-14 11:51 ` Christian Lamparter [this message]
2015-03-14 17:55   ` Florian Westphal
2015-03-15 17:17     ` Christian Lamparter

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