On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 10:04:24AM +0200, Arend Van Spriel wrote: > > I was just writing up an email clarifying my question. But let me summarize > this email thread. The patch from Felix adds this flag in mac80211 for > drivers that indicate to support pulling packets from the internal TXQ in > mac80211. I found it is deprecated, but as Felix mentioned it is used in > various parts of the network subsystem, ie. batman-adv, bridge, vlan, tunnel > implementations. So its use seems to be restricted rather than deprecated. > Given your response above I guess my question would be to get details about > what you call "proper design" as I think you are saying with that it is not > needed, right?
Essentially the only time it would be OK to use LLTX in its current form is if you have no TX queue/congestion feedback which is clearly not the case with wireless drivers. Chers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <[email protected]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
