[Cerowrt-devel] [Bug #442] < vs <= in two comparisons

[Dave Taht]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 4:22 AM, Felix Fietkau <nbd at openwrt.org> wrote:
> On 2014-04-19 05:26, Dave Taht wrote:
>> Could part of it be as simple as not checking for '<='  but only < in
>> txq_max_pending below?
> I don't see how that would make any meaningful difference in practice.

Didn't think it would, still thought <= was more correct.

> By the way, did you test my patch?

It is in the as yet untested 3.10.36-6 build, along with resetting qlen
down to 12 again to try to trigger the bug sooner.

http://snapon.lab.bufferbloat.net/~cero2/cerowrt/wndr/3.10.36-6/


>
>> in ath_tx_start:
>>
>>         ath_txq_lock(sc, txq);
>>         if (txq == sc->tx.txq_map[q] &&
>>             ++txq->pending_frames > sc->tx.txq_max_pending[q] &&
>>             !txq->stopped) {
>>                 ieee80211_stop_queue(sc->hw, q);
>>                 txq->stopped = true;
>>         }
>>
>> in ath_txq_skb_done:
>>
>>         if (txq->stopped &&
>>             txq->pending_frames < sc->tx.txq_max_pending[q]) {
>>                 ieee80211_wake_queue(sc->hw, q);
>>                 txq->stopped = false;
>>         }
>>
>>
>



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Dave Täht

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