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Date:      Thu, 14 Jun 2012 04:01:25 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r237041 - head/sys/dev/ath
Message-ID:  <201206140401.q5E41P64068072@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: adrian
Date: Thu Jun 14 04:01:25 2012
New Revision: 237041
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/237041

Log:
  Disable this warning debug for now, as I'm now aware of the particular
  situation where it's occuring.
  
  Whilst I'm here, flesh out a more descriptive description.

Modified:
  head/sys/dev/ath/if_ath_tx.c

Modified: head/sys/dev/ath/if_ath_tx.c
==============================================================================
--- head/sys/dev/ath/if_ath_tx.c	Thu Jun 14 04:00:30 2012	(r237040)
+++ head/sys/dev/ath/if_ath_tx.c	Thu Jun 14 04:01:25 2012	(r237041)
@@ -1308,7 +1308,28 @@ ath_tx_normal_setup(struct ath_softc *sc
 		return EIO;
 	}
 
-	/* Check if the TXQ wouldn't match what the hardware TXQ is! */
+	/*
+	 * There are two known scenarios where the frame AC doesn't match
+	 * what the destination TXQ is.
+	 *
+	 * + non-QoS frames (eg management?) that the net80211 stack has
+	 *   assigned a higher AC to, but since it's a non-QoS TID, it's
+	 *   being thrown into TID 16.  TID 16 gets the AC_BE queue.
+	 *   It's quite possible that management frames should just be
+	 *   direct dispatched to hardware rather than go via the software
+	 *   queue; that should be investigated in the future.  There are
+	 *   some specific scenarios where this doesn't make sense, mostly
+	 *   surrounding ADDBA request/response - hence why that is special
+	 *   cased.
+	 *
+	 * + Multicast frames going into the VAP mcast queue.  That shows up
+	 *   as "TXQ 11".
+	 *
+	 * This driver should eventually support separate TID and TXQ locking,
+	 * allowing for arbitrary AC frames to appear on arbitrary software
+	 * queues, being queued to the "correct" hardware queue when needed.
+	 */
+#if 0
 	if (txq != sc->sc_ac2q[pri]) {
 		device_printf(sc->sc_dev,
 		    "%s: txq=%p (%d), pri=%d, pri txq=%p (%d)\n",
@@ -1319,6 +1340,7 @@ ath_tx_normal_setup(struct ath_softc *sc
 		    sc->sc_ac2q[pri],
 		    sc->sc_ac2q[pri]->axq_qnum);
 	}
+#endif
 
 	/*
 	 * Calculate miscellaneous flags.



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