Yeah, that was my first guess-- to use a different access class than BE! I want to do add some extra redundancy bits in the payload .. I wasn't sure if it's easier to do it in mac80211 susbsystem or in the driver .. I see one cannot know anything about in the packet in the driver as they are just linked list, but I wasn't sure where to do in mac80211.
Thanks, Abhinav On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Adrian Chadd <adr...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Yeah, I'd dump them into the VO queue and set their retry counts much > higher. > > > -a > > > On 17 January 2014 22:57, Ben Greear <gree...@candelatech.com> wrote: > > On 01/17/2014 10:22 PM, abhinav narain wrote: > >> Hi Folks, > >> I wanted to have some extra redundancy to be present in certain > >> packets, like DNS frames so that I can increase the probability > >> of it getting across. > >> > >> I was interested in knowing how can I achieve this in ath9k. > >> Which functions should I look into ? > >> Do I have to parse the frame in driver before transmitting to > >> find out it is a DNS packet or is there something else that can > >> be done cleverly ? > >> > >> PS: I understand that the sender and the receiver both have > >> to be modified for such an aim. > > > > I'd first make sure they are sent on the VO (high priority) > > queue. That could be done in the stack, or could be done in > > the dns process for the station. For AP, it would probably have to > > be done in the stack. > > > > Thanks, > > Ben > > > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Abhinav > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> ath9k-devel mailing list > >> ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org > >> https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel > >> > > > > > > -- > > Ben Greear <gree...@candelatech.com> > > Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ath9k-devel mailing list > > ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org > > https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel >
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