Re: iwlwifi aggregation info

Johannes Berg
2008-07-30T13:51:00Z

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On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 16:45 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> > Do you not agree that giving an aggregation flow
> > a separate qdisc is unfair within that AC?
>
> I'm think your miss understanding is that HW FIFO != HW QUEUE.
> HW FIFO takes gives fairness in level of AC.. HW QUEUE just piles up
> packets for HW scheduler.

I know, but I cannot make out how the hw queue is pulled into the hw
fifo fairly. I'm not talking about fair media access, I'm talking about
fair number of frames in congestion.

> qdisc should be just provide simple buffering

Well qdiscs don't just do that, depending on the configuration, so we
shouldn't rely on them doing just that.