[Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH RFC v3 1/4] mac80211: Add TXQ scheduling API

[Johannes Berg]

On Mon, 2018-09-10 at 17:00 +0200, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:

> > Do we even need end_schedule()? It's hard to pass multiple things to a
> > single call (do you build a list?), so having
> > 
> > 	start_schedule(), get_txq(), return_txq()
> > 
> > would be sufficient?
> 
> Well, start_schedule() / end_schedule() would be needed if we are going
> to add locking in mac80211?

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> If we decide mac80211 needs to do locking to prevent two threads from
> scheduling the same ac, that would also be needed for the hw-managed
> case?

Yes, good point.

> > It seems like not? Basically it seems to me that in the hw-managed
> > case all you need is may_tx()? And in fact, once you opt in you don't
> > even really need *that* since mac80211 can just return NULL from
> > get_skb()?
> 
> Yeah, we could just throttle in get_skb(); the separate call was to
> avoid the overhead of the check for every packet. Typically, you'll pick
> a TXQ, then dequeue multiple packets from it in succession; with a
> separate call to may_tx(), you only do the check once, not for every
> packet...

Yeah, also a good point.

Still, txq = get_txq(txq) doesn't feel right, so better to keep that
separate I think.

johannes