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rt2x00: Don't kick TX queue after each frame
authorIvo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Fri, 6 Jun 2008 20:53:14 +0000 (22:53 +0200)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:17:56 +0000 (12:17 -0400)
commitb869767b6f5049f1d1ede2bb3e48832e0722ca5a
treea75e43aad931ffdaea889af7b2275f12a16f077a
parent6db3786aee36b32e5ed072ed67fad6d5341b0991
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>
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2400pci.c
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500pci.c
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00.h
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00mac.c
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00pci.c
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.h
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00usb.c
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.c