[Make-wifi-fast] [v3] ath9k: Switch to using mac80211 intermediate software queues.

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

Felix Fietkau <nbd at nbd.name> writes:

> On 2016-07-08 17:53, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>> Kalle Valo <kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com> writes:
>> 
>>> 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 at alum.mit.edu>
>>>> Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd at nbd.name>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk>
>>>
>>> Nice work.
>> 
>> Thanks :)
>> 
>>> Because this is such a significant change, and to maximise testing
>>> time, I'm planning to queue this for 4.9 (so I would apply this to
>>> ath-next in 3-4 weeks after the merge window closes). But anyone who
>>> wants to test this can use master-pending branch from my ath.git tree
>>> (uses wireless-testing as the baseline). Sounds good?
>> 
>> Sounds good to me. I'm planning on backporting this and Michael's
>> mac80211 FQ-CoDel patches to 4.4 and post them for inclusion in LEDE.
>> Hopefully that will get it some more testing as well.
> I've pushed a backport of this into my LEDE staging tree:
> https://git.lede-project.org/?p=lede/nbd/staging.git;a=summary

Awesome! What about the FQ-CoDel mac80211 patches themselves? I have a
tree where I've separated out the needed patches and rebased them on
mainline 4.4.9. Can I post that somewhere (or just email you the series)
and get you to include those as well? Or do I just dump the patch files
into the LEDE patches dir and send that as a patch to LEDE? (I see your
patch also refreshed subsequent patches; is there a script to do that
automatically?)

> I don't have time for testing it myself at the moment, but I'll try to
> get some people to do so.

Awesome :)

-Toke