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From: "Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>
To: "David Shwatrz" <dshwatrz@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about ieee802_1d_to_ac
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:00:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <507D5A51.3040400@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJJAcodOQY6PDp6d=jG30u_7B30G3j8xOrtLQVmEJ4TDYjh_xQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/16/2012 10:04 AM, David Shwatrz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I see in net/mac80211/wme.c:
> ...
> const int ieee802_1d_to_ac[8] = {
> 	IEEE80211_AC_BE,
> 	IEEE80211_AC_BK,
> 	IEEE80211_AC_BK,
> 	IEEE80211_AC_BE,
> 	IEEE80211_AC_VI,
> 	IEEE80211_AC_VI,
> 	IEEE80211_AC_VO,
> 	IEEE80211_AC_VO
> };
> ...

This is the correct mapping if you want to trust the IEEE802.11e 
standard (Table 20i).

Gr. AvS

> As I understand, this values stand for queues for different types of traffic:
> IEEE80211_AC_BE is  best-effort traffic ,
> IEEE80211_AC_BK is background traffic ,
> IEEE80211_AC_VI is video traffic,
> IEEE80211_AC_VO is voice traffic.
>
> We see that entries 6,7 are  voice and entries 4,5 are video.
> Is it not an error that entries 2,3 differ ? and also 0,1 ?
>
> shouldn't it be:
> const int ieee802_1d_to_ac[8] = {
> 	IEEE80211_AC_BE,
> 	IEEE80211_AC_BE,
> 	IEEE80211_AC_BK,
> 	IEEE80211_AC_BK,
>
>
> Regards,
> D Shwartz
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      reply	other threads:[~2012-10-16 13:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-16  8:04 Question about ieee802_1d_to_ac David Shwatrz
2012-10-16 13:00 ` Arend van Spriel [this message]

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