rt2x00: Don't kick TX queue after each frame

TX queues shouldn't be kicked after each frame that is put into the
queue.  This could cause problems during RTS and CTS-to-self as well
as with fragmentation. In all those cases you want all frames to be
send out in a single burst. Off course we shouldn't let the queue fill
up entirely, thus we introduce a 10% threshold which, when reached,
will force the frames to be send out regardless of the frame.

In addition we should prevent queues to become full in such a way
that the tx() handler can fail. Instead of stopping the queue when
it is full, we should stop it when it is below the threshold.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This commit is contained in:
Ivo van Doorn
2008-06-06 22:53:14 +02:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent 6db3786aee
commit b869767b6f
11 changed files with 39 additions and 37 deletions

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@@ -2375,7 +2375,6 @@ static int rt61pci_beacon_update(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
*/
skbdesc = get_skb_frame_desc(skb);
memset(skbdesc, 0, sizeof(*skbdesc));
skbdesc->flags |= FRAME_DESC_DRIVER_GENERATED;
skbdesc->data = skb->data;
skbdesc->data_len = skb->len;
skbdesc->desc = entry_priv->desc;