From: Eric Dumazet
> On Fri, 2015-02-06 at 05:53 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
>
> > wifi could eventually do that, providing in skb->tx_completion_delay_us
> > the time spent in wifi driver.
> >
> > This way, we would have no penalty for network devices doing normal skb
> > orphaning (loopback interface, ethernet, ...)
>
> Another way would be that wifi does an automatic orphaning after 1 or
> 2ms.
Couldn't you do byte counting?
So orphan enough packets to keep a few ms of tx traffic (at the current
tx rate) orphaned.
You might need to give the hardware both orphaned and non-orphaned (parented?)
packets and orphan some when you get a tx complete for an orphaned packet.
David
