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    mac80211: Change default tx_sk_pacing_shift to 7 · 5c14a4d0
    Toke Høiland-Jørgensen authored
    When we did the original tests for the optimal value of sk_pacing_shift, we
    came up with 6 ms of buffering as the default. Sadly, 6 is not a power of
    two, so when picking the shift value I erred on the size of less buffering
    and picked 4 ms instead of 8. This was probably wrong; those 2 ms of extra
    buffering makes a larger difference than I thought.
    
    So, change the default pacing shift to 7, which corresponds to 8 ms of
    buffering. The point of diminishing returns really kicks in after 8 ms, and
    so having this as a default should cut down on the need for extensive
    per-device testing and overrides needed in the drivers.
    
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarToke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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