[Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH] ath9k: Switch to using mac80211 intermediate software queues.

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

Felix Fietkau <nbd at nbd.name> writes:

>> Well, presumably the upper layers won't try to transmit anything through
>> the old TX path if the start/stop logic is implemented properly. The
>> chanctx code already seems to call the ieee80211_{start,stop}_queue()
>> functions when changing context, so not sure what else is needed. Guess
>> I'll go see if I can provoke an actual triggering of the bug, unless
>> Felix elaborates on what he means before I get around to it (poke,
>> Felix? :)).
> Then I guess the logic in ath_tx_start was a leftover from a time before
> some queue related rework happened to the chanctx code.
> In that case you can simply remove the chanctx related software queueing
> stuff from ath_tx_start.

Awesome. I'll double-check that I can't get the WARN_ON to trigger, then
send a v2 :)

-Toke