Felix Fietkau <[email protected]> writes: > Currently there is no way for the driver to signal to mac80211 that it should > schedule a TXQ even if there are no packets on the mac80211 part of that > queue. > This is problematic if the driver has an internal retry queue to deal with > software A-MPDU retry. > > This patch changes the behavior of ieee80211_schedule_txq to always schedule > the queue, as its only user (ath9k) seems to expect such behavior already: > it calls this function on tx status and on powersave wakeup whenever its > internal retry queue is not empty. > > Also add an extra argument to ieee80211_return_txq to get the same behavior. > > This fixes an issue on ath9k where tx queues with packets to retry (and no > new packets in mac80211) would not get serviced. > > Fixes: 89cea7493a346 ("ath9k: Switch to mac80211 TXQ scheduling and airtime > APIs") > Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <[email protected]>
