netdev - Re: [PATCH 5/5] mac80211: set NETIF_F_LLTX when using intermediate tx queues

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Message-ID: <0190c32f3d861d9d7a783090653645c5ae3a7fa3.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date:   Thu, 25 Apr 2019 10:39:52 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:     Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>,
        Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@...adcom.com>,
        Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] mac80211: set NETIF_F_LLTX when using intermediate
 tx queues

On Thu, 2019-04-25 at 16:35 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 02:41:33PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > 
> > I guess there might be value in returning NET_XMIT_CN anyway, but I
> > think you're right in that we can never return anything but
> > NET_XMIT_SUCCESS or NET_XMIT_CN since we never drop this new packet,
> > just older ones.
> > 
> > Which, btw, is exactly the same with net/sched/sch_fq_codel.c, AFAICT?
> 
> Pretty sure codel does return NET_XMIT_CN.

Yes, that's what I meant, it can only ever return NET_XMIT_SUCCESS or
NET_XMIT_CN. This will not trigger the code you mentioned before though.

johannes