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Date:      Tue, 01 Sep 2015 15:20:21 -0700
From:      Rui Paulo <rpaulo@me.com>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org>, Andriy Voskoboinyk <s3erios@gmail.com>, "net@freebsd.org" <net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: mbufq-less iwn(4)
Message-ID:  <1441146021.1183.8.camel@me.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmokn91fHQyg-AGqCgccRoMS89TuWpQ9RuxL%2B9nmgt%2BX2kQ@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20150901112043.GB1023@glebius.int.ru> <CAJ-Vmokn91fHQyg-AGqCgccRoMS89TuWpQ9RuxL%2B9nmgt%2BX2kQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 2015-09-01 at 12:33 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> hi,
> 
> We have to do mbuf queues in drivers for wifi, because of 11n
> aggregation. So on one hand we want to have if_transmit() apply
> backpressure through the stack, but there's also going to be some
> buffering. :P

net80211 also has an ageq which was added to hold mbufs while the mesh
peer link was being established.

-- 
Rui Paulo



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