Johannes Berg <[email protected]> writes:

> On Fri, 2019-02-22 at 14:06 +0100, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>> Johannes Berg <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>> > Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>> > 
>> > > When we did the original tests for the optimal value of sk_pacing_shift, 
>> > > we
>> > > came up with 6 ms of buffering as the default. Sadly, 6 is not a power of
>> > > two, so when picking the shift value I erred on the size of less 
>> > > buffering
>> > > and picked 4 ms instead of 8. This was probably wrong; those 2 ms of 
>> > > extra
>> > > buffering makes a larger difference than I thought.
>> > > 
>> > > So, change the default pacing shift to 7, which corresponds to 8 ms of
>> > > buffering. The point of diminishing returns really kicks in after 8 ms, 
>> > > and
>> > > so having this as a default should cut down on the need for extensive
>> > > per-device testing and overrides needed in the drivers.
>> > > 
>> > > Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <[email protected]>
>> > 
>> > Patch applied to wireless.git, thanks.
>> > 
>> > a41f56b9a17a (HEAD -> mac80211) mac80211: Change default
>> > tx_sk_pacing_shift to 7
>
> This mess came from Kalle's tool btw, so I can't really use it yet :-)
>
>> Cool, thanks! What's the easiest way to backport this? I figure it's
>> easier to just update sk_pacing_shift_update() in tx.c for 4.19 (which
>> predates the addition of the driver override hook); shall I just send a
>> separate patch to stable for that? Or do we need to backport the driver
>> override hook as well?
>
> Just update the value, no need to backport the hook.

And send it directly to stable, or does it need to go through you?

-Toke

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