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| author | Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com> | 2016-05-19 10:37:48 +0200 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2016-06-09 11:31:27 +0200 |
| commit | 80a83cfc434b1e3afe38974570b460db4898bec6 (patch) | |
| tree | f2774b8d416c3341ec57312fe39c6633d380be70 /net/mac80211/util.c | |
| parent | 0662799023de4be686263b0a4f4b7910999172b9 (diff) | |
mac80211: skip netdev queue control with software queuing
Qdiscs are designed with no regard to 802.11
aggregation requirements and hand out
packet-by-packet with no guarantee they are
destined to the same tid. This does more bad than
good no matter how fairly a given qdisc may behave
on an ethernet interface.
Software queuing used per-AC netdev subqueue
congestion control whenever a global AC limit was
hit. This meant in practice a single station or
tid queue could starve others rather easily. This
could resonate with qdiscs in a bad way or could
just end up with poor aggregation performance.
Increasing the AC limit would increase induced
latency which is also bad.
Disabling qdiscs by default and performing
taildrop instead of netdev subqueue congestion
control on the other hand makes it possible for
tid queues to fill up "in the meantime" while
preventing stations starving each other.
This increases aggregation opportunities and
should allow software queuing based drivers
achieve better performance by utilizing airtime
more efficiently with big aggregates.
Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/util.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/util.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/util.c b/net/mac80211/util.c index 905003f75c4d..0db46442bdcf 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/util.c +++ b/net/mac80211/util.c @@ -244,6 +244,9 @@ void ieee80211_propagate_queue_wake(struct ieee80211_local *local, int queue) struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata; int n_acs = IEEE80211_NUM_ACS; + if (local->ops->wake_tx_queue) + return; + if (local->hw.queues < IEEE80211_NUM_ACS) n_acs = 1; @@ -260,11 +263,6 @@ void ieee80211_propagate_queue_wake(struct ieee80211_local *local, int queue) for (ac = 0; ac < n_acs; ac++) { int ac_queue = sdata->vif.hw_queue[ac]; - if (local->ops->wake_tx_queue && - (atomic_read(&sdata->txqs_len[ac]) > - local->hw.txq_ac_max_pending)) - continue; - if (ac_queue == queue || (sdata->vif.cab_queue == queue && local->queue_stop_reasons[ac_queue] == 0 && @@ -352,6 +350,9 @@ static void __ieee80211_stop_queue(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, int queue, if (__test_and_set_bit(reason, &local->queue_stop_reasons[queue])) return; + if (local->ops->wake_tx_queue) + return; + if (local->hw.queues < IEEE80211_NUM_ACS) n_acs = 1; |