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field and into a separate fast-frames staging pointer in ieee80211_node. The A-MPDU TX path allows txa_private to be used by drivers. So it will clash with any attempt to use fast-frames. Now, fast-frames is not really anything special - it's just a custom ethernet frame type that contains two MSDUs into one MPDU. So all the NIC has to support doing is transmitting up to a 4KiB frame with an arbitrary ethertype and bam! Fast-frames. However, using txa_private means we can /either/ do fast-frames or A-MPDU TX, so fast frames has been turned off in the Atheros HAL for 11n chipsets. This is a bit silly - it actually means that 802.11 performance to/from 11abg Atheros chips is actually better than between an 11abg atheros device and an 11n Atheros device. So: * create a new mbuf staging queue for fast frames. It only queues a single frame in the staging queue (and there's a top-level ic staging queue used for expiry/tracking) so it's just an mbuf pointer per TID. * Still use the ampdu TX packet counter to determine whether to do aggregation or not. It'll double count if we start doing both A-MPDU TX and fast frames, but that's not all that important right now. * Initialise the pps tracker so ticks isn't zero. This ensures that fast-frames actually gets used - without it, the ticks math overflows and the pps math always sets txa_pps=0. This is the same bug that plagued A-MPDU TX starting logic. This actually allows fast-frames transmit to occur between the AR9331 (in 11n HT/20 mode) and AR9170 (if_otus) in 11bg mode. Now, this is a great big no-op on atheros 11n hardware, so don't worry. It may mean you start seeing more reliable fast-frames transmission on 11abg hardware which may expose some more amusing bugs. TODO: * further testing and debugging of all of this before flipping on fast-frames in if_ath (for 11n) and if_otus.
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