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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 08:49:46 +0100
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Subject: Re: [RFC] serialising net80211 TX
From: Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 14 February 2013 11:50, Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Seems like the best architectural wise, first-in first out. I am just
>> thinking of one can extend this too have like more than one queue,
>> more like the QoS concept, and each packet have a time-stamp assigned
>> to it.Would that help?
>
> Well, the queue thing is a bit orthogonal. Yes, we could run multiple
> queues and multiple kernel threads. But what would multiple kernel
> threads get us?

I was thinking one kernel thread. This thread have some headroom to
take from the higher priority queue if the frame on the other queue is
not old "enough".

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> Adrian



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Monthadar Al Jaberi