To: "Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Thoughts about mac80211 client PS implementation
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From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:58:22 +0200
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Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:

>> Good point. So set my M to 1 and N to 0 ;) Well, in that case you don't
>> need a timer at all but can just schedule the work right away.
>
> Another thought I just had: you could catch the frame in
> subif_start_xmit, stop the master interface queues, xmit the frame to
> the master interface, schedule the PS off work, and after that turns PS
> on you wake the master queues.

Thanks for the tip, it looks good. I have my first version almost
ready now, I just need to proper testing first. It's just that
stlc45xx is crashing with wireless-testing, I need to fix that first :) 

I'll try this subif_start_xmit method in the second round.

-- 
Kalle Valo