Further question about MAC80211

Further question about MAC80211

[Joan Josep Aleixendri]

Hello there!

I'd like to thank you for your time and all the information you gave me 
last monday; I'm still reading and studying it!

The main goal of our project is to dinamically control the troughtput of 
each virtual interface (ViF) depending on how good the connection is 
between 2 stations and depending on the others ViF throughtputs our 
station (STA structure or local) may have instantiated.

To do that we estimate the airtime of the packet that's about to be send 
and depending on the channel usage we decide if we let the packet flow 
or if we should enqueue or even drop it!

The problems begin when we enqueue a packet that has the txpending flag 
set (it's been in the AC queue once) and our algorithm decides to 
enqueue it again or drop the packet. The tx_pending tasklet begins to 
loop the same packet on tx_frags (stopping the tasklet for some time is 
not a slution either...). The results of enqueueing is connection  lost 
or a huge delay on some packets.

If we drop any packet in tx_frags() mac80211 goes crazy and may 
instantly drop connection and destroy the vif.

Is there any more projects I should check out that drops or enqueue 
packets on mac80211 when it's not supposed to be enqueuing?

Thanks again for your precious time!


Joan Josep Aleixendri