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Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:30:26 +0100
From: Dave Taht <dave.taht@...il.com>
To: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, shemminger@...tta.com,
netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 03/10] net: Add netdev interfaces recording send/compl
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com> wrote:
>>> I was referring to the transmit routine, there for netdev_sent_queue()
>>> is always called with one packet.
>>
>> Optimism for the future? :-)
>>
>
> Yep, I am looking forward to the day that someone figures out how to
> batch transmits in a meaningful way!
I liked it in potentia, as wireless likes to aggregate packets into
batches that fit into an AMPDU directed at a single station
and/or TXOP.
not that BQL can help there at present as this happens below the
mac80211 layer, and packets vanish once consumed by the driver.
>
>> But yeah if nobody batches right now, no reason to support this in the
>> interfaces, we can add it later.
>
> Okay.
>
>>
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