[Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH v4] ath9k: Switch to using mac80211 intermediate software queues.

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke at toke.dk
Wed Oct 5 12:55:33 EDT 2016


Kalle Valo <kvalo at codeaurora.org> writes:

> Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> writes:
>
>> Kalle Valo <kvalo at codeaurora.org> writes:
>>
>>> Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> writes:
>>>
>>> I understand your point, but I don't want to rush this to 4.9 and then
>>> start getting lots of bug reports and eventually forced to revert it. If
>>> we just found a new serious regression the chances are that there are
>>> more lurking somewhere and this patch is just not ready yet.
>>
>> So, the changes to mac80211 that fixes the known regressions of this
>> patch have gone in.
>
> I guess you mean this commit:
>
> bb42f2d13ffc mac80211: Move reorder-sensitive TX handlers to after TXQ dequeue
>
> (Just making sure that I have the same commit in my tree when I apply
> this)

Yup, that's the one :)

>> Any chance of seeing this merged during the current merge window? :)
>
> I sent last new feature ("-next") patches for 4.9 last week, sorry. So
> this has to wait for 4.10.

Ah, right, I think I got my merge windows confused. You already said you
wouldn't take it for 4.9. So I guess what I'm asking is for you to put
it into the appropriate -next tree so it can get some wider exposure
ahead of the *next* merge window...

> And I assume I need to take v5:
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9311037/

Yes. Haven't noticed anything that changed since that might conflict
with it, but let me know if I missed something and you want a refreshed
version.

-Toke


More information about the Make-wifi-fast mailing list