netdev - Re: [PATCH 32/39]: mac80211: Reimplement WME using ->select

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Message-Id: <1215087178.9975.6.camel@johannes.berg>
Date:	Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:12:58 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Tomas Winkler <tomasw@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	vinay@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, krkumar2@...ibm.com, mchan@...adcom.com,
	Matheos.Worku@....com, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 32/39]: mac80211: Reimplement WME using
	->select_queue().

On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 14:27 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:05 AM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> >
> > Unfortunately it temporarily loses some features, such
> > as packet dropping (easy to add) and requeueing (harder).
> 
> Requeueing is must. This effectively kills HT. We must be able to
> requeu packets from the legacy queue into apmdu queue.

I think the other direction is much more important (and also far
easier), and you could help put it back :)

Right now though, it still just hangs.

johannes

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