Hi Toke, On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 2:51 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Michal Kazior <[email protected]> > > Qdiscs are designed with no regard to 802.11 > aggregation requirements and hand out > packet-by-packet with no guarantee they are > destined to the same tid. This does more bad than > good no matter how fairly a given qdisc may behave > on an ethernet interface. > > Software queuing used per-AC netdev subqueue > congestion control whenever a global AC limit was > hit. This meant in practice a single station or > tid queue could starve others rather easily. This > could resonate with qdiscs in a bad way or could > just end up with poor aggregation performance. > Increasing the AC limit would increase induced > latency which is also bad. > > Disabling qdiscs by default and performing > taildrop instead of netdev subqueue congestion > control on the other hand makes it possible for > tid queues to fill up "in the meantime" while > preventing stations starving each other. > > This increases aggregation opportunities and > should allow software queuing based drivers > achieve better performance by utilizing airtime > more efficiently with big aggregates. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <[email protected]>
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