[PATCH v2] ath10k: Re-enable TXQs for all devices

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke at toke.dk
Sun Nov 12 06:40:12 PST 2017


Felix Fietkau <nbd at nbd.name> writes:

> On 2017-11-10 01:48, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>> Commit 4ca1807815aa6801aaced7fdefa9edacc2521767 disables the use of the
>> mac80211 TXQs for some devices because of a theoretical throughput
>> regression. The original regression report[1] was related to fq_codel
>> qdisc drop performance, which was fixed in
>> 9d18562a227874289fda8ca5d117d8f503f1dcca. Since then, we have not seen
>> the TXQ-related regression, so it should be safe to re-enable TXQs.
> That commit is unrelated to the fq/codel implementations in mac80211,
> since mac80211 with txq does not use qdisc.

Yup. Which is why it's odd that the initial bug report referred to this;
that would indicate that the regression had nothing to do with TXQs in
the first place, and we could have merged this ages ago?

-Toke



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