Re: [PATCH] ath9k: clean up and fix ath_tx_count_airtime

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>]

Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name> writes:

> On 2017-02-12 16:22, Toke H=C3=B8iland-J=C3=B8rgensen wrote:
>> Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name> writes:
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>>> ath_tx_count_airtime is doing a lot of unnecessary work:
>>>
>>> - Redundant station lookup
>>> - Redundant rcu_read_lock/unlock
>>> - Useless memcpy of bf->rates
>>> - Useless NULL check of bf->bf_mpdu
>>> - Redundant lookup of the skb tid
>>>
>>> Additionally, it tries to look up the mac80211 queue index from the txq,
>>> which fails if the frame was delivered via the power save queue.

What does this mean in practise, what's the user level impact?

>>> This patch fixes all of these issues by passing down the right set of
>>> pointers instead of doing extra work
>>>
>>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
>>> Fixes: 63fefa050477 ("ath9k: Introduce airtime fairness scheduling
>>> between stations")
>>> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
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>> Not sure if there's anything for stable to do with this; don't think the
>> airtime fairness code has gone into a release yet? Otherwise:
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>> Acked-by: Toke H=C3=B8iland-J=C3=B8rgensen <toke@toke.dk>
>
> I added this, because I'm not sure this patch will make it to 4.10 in
> time, since we're really close to a release. I assume this patch will
> probably go into 4.11.

Yeah, to try to get a patch to 4.10 at this point needs to be a really
high profile regression. That is if Linus doesn't release 4.10 today, of
course.

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Kalle Valo