On 2016-02-07 12:56, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote: >>> well.. Yes, you can't assume that you'll have one descriptor for one >>> MSDU payload (unless the driver doesn't advertise SG to the >>> netstack). >> Okay, please make a suggestion describing the exact kinds of limits you >> would need for iwlwifi. > > Are athX devices able to handle MPDUs with any number of frags? Say if > you have 30 different physically contiguous fragments, the DMA would > be able to load all these into one single packet and send it to the > air? I think athX devices have no limitations there. I'm not testing this with atheros devices though - ath9k does not have mac80211 per-sta-per-tid queueing support yet. I'm working with MediaTek MT76x2 chipsets with my mt76 driver, which I will upstream soon.
> iwlwifi currently has the limitation of 20 Transmit Buffers (BTs) > which I mentioned earlier. I guess it'd be nice if the driver would be > able to advertise how many fragments it can handle. Then, you'd need > to stop the A-MSDU building if you'd cross this boundary? > > You can look at skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags to know how many frags you > have for each skb. On top of that, you need 1 frag for each subframe > (subframe header). I implemented all of your suggestions in RFC v3, let me know if anything's missing. - Felix -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
