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Wireless device queues

Typically, wireless devices have four queues for the different access categories, and additionally buffer somewhere for aggregation in HT mode.

Schematically:

queues.png

Note that the software queues exist for each virtual interface, and the aggregation queue there exists for each aggregation session. This picture reflects iwlwifi – the aggregation queues might be in the driver (software) instead (ath9k).


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