Re: iwlwifi aggregation info

Johannes Berg
2008-07-31T18:23:24Z

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On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 21:14 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 19:08 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> >
> >> > Can you explain how starvation happens? In what scenarios? With or
> >> > without aggregation?
> >>
> >> for (queue = 0; queue < QD_NUM(hw); queue++)
> >>
> >> This always starts 0 prioritize dequeue the first frame. But what we
> >> need is RR and let HW to prioritize the transmission according AC
> >
> > That's from the old code not having real MQ though, right? I'm totally
> > not concerned about that.
>
> Correct. The bottom line is that correct behavior MQ would be shift
> scheduling decision to the HW.

Right. Which brings us back to the original point, why does the hw need
to make the scheduling decision between agg and non-agg?