[Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH v3 3/6] mac80211: Add airtime accounting and scheduling to TXQs

Simon Barber simon at superduper.net
Mon Nov 19 18:30:41 EST 2018



> On Nov 19, 2018, at 2:44 PM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> wrote:
> 
> Dave Taht <dave at taht.net <mailto:dave at taht.net>> writes:
> 
>> Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> writes:
>> 
>>> Felix Fietkau <nbd at nbd.name> writes:
>>> 
>>>> On 2018-11-14 18:40, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>>>>>> This part doesn't really make much sense to me, but maybe I'm
>>>>>> misunderstanding how the code works.
>>>>>> Let's assume we have a driver like ath9k or mt76, which tries to keep a
….
> 
> Well, there's going to be a BQL-like queue limit (but for airtime) on
> top, which drivers can opt-in to if the hardware has too much queueing.
> 

Very happy to read this - I first talked to Dave Taht about the need for Time Queue Limits more than 5 years ago!

Simon

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