Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code

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To: Herbert Xu <herbert@...>

Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@...>, <linux-wireless@...>, <netdev@...>, Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@...>, Tomas Winkler <tomasw@...>, Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@...>, Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...>

Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code

Date: Wednesday, May 7, 2008 - 9:48 am

On Wednesday 07 May 2008 15:05:48 Herbert Xu wrote:
quoted text> On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 01:52:13PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> >
> > Hmm. Why does busy exist then? Historical accident? I really really
> 
> Yes it's historical baggage.  These days the biggest users would
> be LLTX drivers which should all be converted to non-LLTX and
> drivers that don't keep track of queue status properly.

So there's no way to actually fail in a TX handler? Drivers
are doomed to drop the packet, if they cannot handle it due to
ring overflow?

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[RFC/RFT 3/4] mac80211: use GSO for fragmentation, Johannes Berg, (Wed Apr 30, 8:40 am)

Re: [RFC/RFT 3/4] mac80211: use GSO for fragmentation, Herbert Xu, (Wed May 7, 3:10 am)

Re: [RFC/RFT 3/4] mac80211: use GSO for fragmentation, Johannes Berg, (Wed May 7, 4:50 am)

Re: [RFC/RFT 3/4] mac80211: use GSO for fragmentation, Herbert Xu, (Wed May 7, 5:00 am)

[PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code, Johannes Berg, (Wed May 7, 7:22 am)

Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code, Herbert Xu, (Wed May 7, 7:41 am)

Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code, Johannes Berg, (Wed May 7, 7:52 am)

Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code, Herbert Xu, (Wed May 7, 9:05 am)

Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code, Johannes Berg, (Wed May 7, 3:19 pm)

Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code, Michael Buesch, (Wed May 7, 9:48 am)

Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code, Herbert Xu, (Wed May 7, 11:22 pm)

Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code, Michael Buesch, (Thu May 8, 9:00 am)

Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code, Herbert Xu, (Thu May 8, 9:08 am)

Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code, Michael Buesch, (Thu May 8, 9:13 am)

Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code, Herbert Xu, (Thu May 8, 9:32 am)

Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code, Michael Buesch, (Thu May 8, 9:15 am)

Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code, David Miller, (Wed May 7, 11:26 pm)

Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code, Rusty Russell, (Thu May 15, 10:01 pm)

Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code, David Miller, (Fri May 16, 12:58 am)

Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code, Rusty Russell, (Fri May 16, 6:32 am)

Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code, David Miller, (Fri May 16, 3:40 pm)

Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code, Rusty Russell, (Sun May 18, 11:08 pm)

Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code, David Miller, (Mon May 19, 3:03 am)

Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code, Herbert Xu, (Fri May 16, 8:15 am)

Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code, Johannes Berg, (Fri May 16, 6:38 am)

Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code, Herbert Xu, (Thu May 15, 11:28 pm)

Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code, Johannes Berg, (Thu May 8, 5:00 am)

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