WMM not working for mcast packets on ath10k

[Ben Greear]

On 8/11/20 5:22 AM, Ahmed Zaki wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 01:05, Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 8/10/20 3:08 PM, Ahmed Zaki wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have 2 ath10k devices set in Mesh Point mode. When I use iptables'
>>> DSCP target to set the WMM AC for some traffic ports to VO, the rules
>>> work fine but only for unicast packets. All broadcast on the target
>>> UDP ports goes out as BE, and not VO.
>>>
>>> With some ath10k debugging enabled, it seems that the htt is indeed
>>> sending the tx descriptor with the correct tid (6) set.
>>>
>>> Is this the intended behavior for some reason? If not, is there any
>>> more debugging on the TX path that I can do?
>>
>> I don't think that WMM makes sense for bcast frames since they go out on
>> a special TID that does not do aggregation or per peer QoS settings.
> 
> I get that, but we want to give some WMM priority to bcast as they tend to have
> higher probability of loss under high network loads.
> 
> That special TID that you mentioned, is it set in the ath10k fw?
> Because I traced the
> htt and it is sending the intended tid in the txbuf flags, but bcast
> still come 0 (BE) on air.
> Or am I missing something in the driver?
> 
> Thanks again for help.

Maybe you can convert bcast to unicast in the driver/mac80211?  There are no retries
or proper rate-ctrl for bcast either, so I don't think you can get great performance
for bcast.

Thanks,
Ben


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