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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Cc: ath11k@lists.infradead.org, Sven Eckelmann <seckelmann@datto.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ath11k: support for multicast rate control
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 12:23:32 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190717122332.AED4161728@smtp.codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190705103109.3731-2-sven@narfation.org>

Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> wrote:

> The multicasts have to be done at a rate which is a basic rate. But the
> ath11k firmware is always doing them on 1 Mbit/s for 2.4GHz and 6 Mbit/s
> for 5GHz. These might not be the basic rates which the AP advertised.
> Clients which don't support these rates will therefore not be able to
> receive the multicast/broadcast.
> 
> Also some mesh protocols try to estimate the probability of a successful
> submission of broadcast/multicast frames. In such setups, the multicast
> rate is usually manually set to an higher value to better simulate the
> rates which are used for unicast transmission.
> 
> mac80211 already calculates the correct multicast rate for the driver and
> ath11k just has to send this information to the firmware rate control.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <seckelmann@datto.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

3 patches applied to ath11k-bringup branch of ath.git, thanks.

c885aaf227ec ath11k: support for multicast rate control
caa114b794e3 ath11k: support for mgmt rate control
687fbb379e71 ath11k: apply mgmt rate for beacons

-- 
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11032957/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches


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  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-17 12:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-05 10:31 [PATCH 0/3] ath11k: add support for mgmt and mcast rate control Sven Eckelmann
2019-07-05 10:31 ` [PATCH 1/3] ath11k: support for multicast " Sven Eckelmann
2019-07-17 12:23   ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2019-07-05 10:31 ` [PATCH 2/3] ath11k: support for mgmt " Sven Eckelmann
2019-07-05 10:31 ` [PATCH 3/3] ath11k: apply mgmt rate for beacons Sven Eckelmann

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