Re: [Make-wifi-fast] Experimental ath10k airtime fairness patch?

[Noah Causin <n0manletter@gmail.com>]

Thank you for the patch.


On 11/15/2016 1:36 PM, Michal Kazior wrote:
> On 14 November 2016 at 18:06, Noah Causin <n0manletter@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was wondering if there is an experimental airtime fairness patch for the
>> ath10k on LEDE.
>>
>> I have been using Toke's patch for enabling intermediate queue support on
>> the ath10k, and it has been working well.
> I did some work on that but didn't finish nor publish it.
>
> I just dug around my git repo and found something. I can't remember if
> it was this exactly what I used in the "100 station" thingy[1][2] or
> not. Attached.
>
> Feel free to play around it if you want. It should provide fairness
> but will degrade peak performance due to delayed firmware aggregation
> introducing extra idling latency and the naive design.
>
> You'll most likely need to rebase it.
>
> [1]: http://imgur.com/a/sSn8V
> [2]: http://www.linuxplumbersconf.com/2016/ocw//system/presentations/3963/original/linuxplumbers_wifi_latency-3Nov.pdf
> page 28, 30
>
>
> Michał