From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>,
"Arend Van Spriel" <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>,
"Felix Fietkau" <nbd@nbd.name>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
"Eric Dumazet" <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] mac80211: set NETIF_F_LLTX when using intermediate tx queues
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 10:13:43 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190417021343.jysv3s7wed6em4ug@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8678e1a4eb816878867f71878e8fe7c225f1b7f7.camel@sipsolutions.net>
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 09:13:16PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
>
> I'm not sure how they'd even realize this, other than packets getting
> dropped? Which of course we do here as well, we didn't invent something
> that let's us expand memory arbitrarily ;-)
They rely on the queueing mechanism providing feedback via an
error return value when the queue becomes full. From my cursory
look at net/mac80211 you seem to be always returning success in
ieee80211_subif_start_xmit.
Cheers,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-17 2:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-16 17:06 [PATCH 1/5] mac80211: mesh: drop redundant rcu_read_lock/unlock calls Felix Fietkau
2019-03-16 17:06 ` [PATCH 2/5] mac80211: fix memory accounting with A-MSDU aggregation Felix Fietkau
2019-03-16 18:12 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-03-16 17:06 ` [PATCH 3/5] mac80211: calculate hash for fq without holding fq->lock in itxq enqueue Felix Fietkau
2019-03-16 18:13 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-03-16 17:06 ` [PATCH 4/5] mac80211: run late dequeue late tx handlers without holding fq->lock Felix Fietkau
2019-03-16 18:13 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2022-12-05 9:46 ` Wen Gong
2022-12-07 6:30 ` Wen Gong
2022-12-12 8:31 ` Wen Gong
2019-03-16 17:06 ` [PATCH 5/5] mac80211: set NETIF_F_LLTX when using intermediate tx queues Felix Fietkau
2019-03-16 18:14 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-04-14 9:44 ` Arend Van Spriel
2019-04-14 11:19 ` Felix Fietkau
2019-04-14 12:34 ` Arend Van Spriel
2019-04-16 7:34 ` Arend Van Spriel
2019-04-16 7:44 ` Herbert Xu
2019-04-16 8:04 ` Arend Van Spriel
2019-04-16 8:36 ` Herbert Xu
2019-04-16 8:37 ` Johannes Berg
2019-04-16 9:17 ` Arend Van Spriel
2019-04-16 9:29 ` Herbert Xu
2019-04-16 9:33 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-04-16 9:33 ` Johannes Berg
2019-04-16 9:37 ` Herbert Xu
2019-04-16 9:39 ` Johannes Berg
2019-04-16 10:02 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-04-17 2:11 ` Herbert Xu
2019-04-17 8:28 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-04-16 13:13 ` Herbert Xu
2019-04-16 13:18 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-04-17 3:38 ` Herbert Xu
2019-04-17 9:09 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-04-17 9:16 ` Arend Van Spriel
2019-04-17 9:17 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-04-23 12:41 ` Johannes Berg
2019-04-25 8:35 ` Herbert Xu
2019-04-25 8:39 ` Johannes Berg
2019-04-25 8:44 ` Herbert Xu
2019-04-25 8:49 ` Johannes Berg
2019-04-16 19:13 ` Johannes Berg
2019-04-17 2:13 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2019-04-16 9:38 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
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