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Emmanuel Grumbach committed 3955525d5d1
iwlwifi: pcie: buffer packets to avoid overflowing Tx queues When the Tx queues are full above a threshold, we immediately stop the mac80211's queue to stop getting new packets. This worked until TSO was enabled. With TSO, one single packet from mac80211 can use many descriptors since a large send needs to be split into several segments. This means that stopping mac80211's queues is not enough and we also need to ensure that we don't overflow the Tx queues with one single packet from mac80211. Add code to transport layer to do just that. Stop mac80211's queue as soon as the queue is full above the same threshold as before, and keep pushing the current packet along with its segments on the queue, but check that we don't overflow. If that would happen, buffer the segments, and send them when there is room in the Tx queue again. Of course, we first need to send the buffered segments and only then, wake up mac80211's queues. Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>