From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>
Cc: make-wifi-fast@lists.bufferbloat.net,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
"Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>,
"Tim Shepard" <shep@alum.mit.edu>, "Felix Fietkau" <nbd@nbd.name>
Subject: Re: [Make-wifi-fast] [v5] ath9k: Switch to using mac80211 intermediate software queues.
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2016 11:43:15 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161007114314.7472961AEF@smtp.codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160902140030.11798-1-toke@toke.dk>
Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> This switches ath9k over to using the mac80211 intermediate software
> queueing mechanism for data packets. It removes the queueing inside the
> driver, except for the retry queue, and instead pulls from mac80211 when
> a packet is needed. The retry queue is used to store a packet that was
> pulled but can't be sent immediately.
>
> The old code path in ath_tx_start that would queue packets has been
> removed completely, as has the qlen limit tunables (since there's no
> longer a queue in the driver to limit).
>
> Based on Tim's original patch set, but reworked quite thoroughly.
>
> Cc: Tim Shepard <shep@alum.mit.edu>
> Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
> Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Depends on:
bb42f2d13ffc mac80211: Move reorder-sensitive TX handlers to after TXQ dequeue
Patch set to Awaiting Upstream.
--
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9311037/
Documentation about submitting wireless patches and checking status
from patchwork:
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-07 11:43 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20160617090929.31606-1-toke@toke.dk>
[not found] ` <20160617090929.31606-2-toke@toke.dk>
2016-06-17 13:28 ` [Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH 1/2] ath9k: use " Felix Fietkau
2016-06-17 13:43 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-06-17 13:48 ` Felix Fietkau
2016-06-17 16:33 ` Felix Fietkau
2016-06-17 14:10 ` [Make-wifi-fast] [ath9k-devel] " Dave Taht
2016-06-18 19:05 ` [Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH] ath9k: Switch to using " Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-07-06 16:16 ` [Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH v2] " Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-07-06 17:58 ` Sebastian Gottschall
2016-07-06 18:13 ` Felix Fietkau
2016-07-06 18:52 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-07-06 19:00 ` Felix Fietkau
2016-07-06 19:08 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-07-06 19:34 ` [Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH v3] " Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-07-08 14:27 ` [Make-wifi-fast] [v3] " Kalle Valo
2016-07-08 15:53 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-07-08 16:10 ` Felix Fietkau
2016-07-08 16:28 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-07-08 16:31 ` Felix Fietkau
2016-07-08 16:38 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-07-08 18:24 ` Sebastian Gottschall
2016-07-09 12:00 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-08-05 16:03 ` [Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH v4] " Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-08-22 15:44 ` Kalle Valo
2016-08-22 16:16 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-08-22 17:02 ` Kalle Valo
2016-08-22 17:13 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-08-23 6:59 ` Kalle Valo
2016-08-23 8:52 ` Arend van Spriel
2016-10-05 14:02 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-10-05 15:50 ` Kalle Valo
2016-10-05 16:55 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-10-05 17:54 ` Kalle Valo
2016-10-05 19:56 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-02 14:00 ` [Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH v5] " Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-03 10:16 ` Felix Fietkau
2016-10-07 11:43 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2016-11-09 2:22 ` [Make-wifi-fast] [v5] " Kalle Valo
2016-11-09 11:31 ` [Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH v6] " Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-11-09 22:42 ` [Make-wifi-fast] [v6] " Kalle Valo
2016-11-09 23:10 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-11-15 15:00 ` Kalle Valo
2016-11-24 13:54 ` [Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH v2] ath9k: Introduce airtime fairness scheduling between stations Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-11-28 10:12 ` [Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH v3] " Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-12-15 8:43 ` [Make-wifi-fast] [v3] " Kalle Valo
[not found] <E1c4IsV-0003Rk-00@www.xplot.org>
2016-11-09 10:42 ` [Make-wifi-fast] [v5] ath9k: Switch to using mac80211 intermediate software queues Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-11-09 20:07 ` Valo, Kalle
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