Enabling Byte Queue Limits in the ath5k wireless driver

[Simon Barber]

BQL does make sense, but TQL would be even better - 'Time Queue Limits'. 
Which would work based on an estimate of how much time each packet will 
take to send, and limiting the hardware queue to contain a total mount 
of 'time'. The purpose of the hardware queue is to mask interrupt and 
other latencies involved in refilling an empty queue - a time based 
phenomenon. Hence time is the best metric to control it - with fixed 
speed interfaced like ethernet bytes=time, but not so on wireless.

Simon

On 10/3/2013 11:49 AM, Anirudh Sivaraman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking into enabling BQL for the ath5k driver, and was wondering
> if anyone here knows of any prior efforts in this direction. In
> particular, is BQL even a sensible strategy for wireless drivers?
> Thank you in advance for any advice you may have in this regard.
>
> Anirudh
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