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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>,
	Alexander Wetzel <alexander@wetzel-home.de>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	"Thomas Mann" <rauchwolke@gmx.net>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: Serialize calls to drv_wake_tx_queue()
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 13:32:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <067780600cd56014c3c820117d139ddb1c352b28.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <519b5bb9-8899-ae7c-4eff-f3116cdfdb56@nbd.name>

On Tue, 2023-03-14 at 13:28 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> If you want to address this in the least invasive way, add [...],
> a global lock to iwlwifi
> 

I'm already fixing this, see
https://lore.kernel.org/r/5674c40151267fea1333f0eda1701b141bbaa170.camel@sipsolutions.net

> , and a 
> per-AC lock inside ieee80211_handle_wake_tx_queue().

I'm not *entirely* sure per AC is sufficient given that you could
technically map two ACs to the same HW queue with vif->hw_queue[]?

But again, not really sure all that complexity is still worth it.

johannes

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-14 12:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-13 20:15 [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: Serialize calls to drv_wake_tx_queue() Alexander Wetzel
2023-03-13 20:33 ` Johannes Berg
2023-03-14 11:20   ` Alexander Wetzel
2023-03-14 12:22     ` Johannes Berg
2023-03-14 16:44       ` Alexander Wetzel
2023-03-14 16:50         ` Johannes Berg
2023-03-14 12:28     ` Felix Fietkau
2023-03-14 12:32       ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2023-03-14 12:36         ` Felix Fietkau
2023-03-13 21:04 ` Felix Fietkau

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