From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
To: Chilam Ng <chilamng@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>, <ath6kl-devel@qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath6kl: assign Tx packet drop threshold per endpoint based on AC priority
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:17:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F4BBAB4.90000@qca.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1328782621-5251-1-git-send-email-chilamng@qca.qualcomm.com>
On 02/09/2012 12:17 PM, Chilam Ng wrote:
> Tx packets will begin to drop when there are multiple traffic priorities
> and the current traffic is not the highest priority and the remaining
> cookies drop below a certain number, which is fixed for all AC. It is
> possilbe that lower priority AC have more traffic which will consume
> more cookies and lock out higher priority AC from having any. Assign
> each endpoint (AC) with a different Tx-packet-drop threshold so lower
> priority AC is more likely to drop packets and the cookies become more
> available to higher priority AC.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chilam Ng <chilamng@qca.qualcomm.com>
Thanks, applied. The real fix of course is to implement multiqueue
support in ath6kl and get rid of the cookie stuff completely. But this
is a good quick fix.
Kalle
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-27 17:17 UTC|newest]
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2012-02-09 10:17 [PATCH] ath6kl: assign Tx packet drop threshold per endpoint based on AC priority Chilam Ng
2012-02-27 17:17 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
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