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Subject: Re: debugging TXQs being empty
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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Date:   Thu, 05 Dec 2019 17:51:52 +0100
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On Thu, 2019-12-05 at 17:49 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-12-05 at 08:37 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> 
> > > All this seems to mean that the TCP stack isn't feeding us fast enough,
> > > but is that really possible?
> > 
> > Does UDP work better?
> 
> Somewhat, I get about 1020-1030 Mbps. But still a TON of "TXQ of STA ...
> is now empty" messages. Say this run got about 15 per second of those.

That actually pegged a CPU in the test tool, so not sure I'm doing that
correctly ...

johannes