[Make-wifi-fast] [PATCHv5 0/5] mac80211: implement fq_codel

Michal Kazior michal.kazior at tieto.com
Thu May 19 04:37:47 EDT 2016


Hi,

This patchset disables qdiscs for drivers
using software queuing and performs fq_codel-like
dequeuing on txqs.

This is based on net-next/master
(0b7962a6c4a37ef3cbb25d976af7b9ec4ce8ad01).

Background:

  https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg149776.html
  https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg148714.html
  https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg149039.html
  http://blog.cerowrt.org/post/dql_on_wifi_2/
  http://blog.cerowrt.org/post/dql_on_wifi/
  http://blog.cerowrt.org/post/fq_codel_on_ath10k/

v5:
 * some fixes (crash, powersave) [me, Tim]
 * reworked debugfs knob (single file now) [Dave]

v4:
 * the taildrop stop-gap patch moved to
   per-interface limit (instead of per-radio) [Johannes]
 * pushed fq.h and codel.h changes to include/net/ [Johannes]

v3:
 * split taildrop, fq and codel functionalities
   into separate patches [Avery]

v2:
 * fix invalid ptr deref
 * fix compilation for backports


Michal Kazior (5):
  mac80211: skip netdev queue control with software queuing
  mac80211: implement fair queueing per txq
  mac80211: add debug knobs for fair queuing
  mac80211: implement codel on fair queuing flows
  mac80211: add debug knobs for codel

 include/net/mac80211.h     |  18 ++-
 net/mac80211/agg-tx.c      |   8 +-
 net/mac80211/debugfs.c     | 202 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h |  31 ++++-
 net/mac80211/iface.c       |  26 ++--
 net/mac80211/main.c        |  10 +-
 net/mac80211/rx.c          |   2 +-
 net/mac80211/sta_info.c    |  14 +--
 net/mac80211/tx.c          | 298 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 net/mac80211/util.c        |  34 ++----
 10 files changed, 545 insertions(+), 98 deletions(-)

-- 
2.1.4



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