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From: Valentin Manea <linux-wireless@mrs.ro>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	David Ross <dave@antacs.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mac80211 and broadcast frames
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:30:29 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A544B15.8030106@mrs.ro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43e72e890907070915y5fd131b7l6aa845a0785f8c76@mail.gmail.com>



On 07/07/2009 07:15 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 7:48 AM, John W. Linville<linville@tuxdriver.com>  wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 09:10:52PM +1000, David Ross wrote:
>>> Actually it is required to be a mutual BASIC rate (not extended rates) -
>>> not necessarily the "lowest possible" - David.
>> True, but FWIW I think all of our rate scaling algorithms choose the
>> lowest rate.
>
> And then iwlwifi and ath9k have their own rate control algo, and at
> least ath9k uses the lowest valid rate IIRC.
>
>    Luis


   I've found the code in ath9k and you are right, it always chooses the 
lowest rate.
   So, basically to transmit multicast frames at a better bitrate I have 
to hack the rate control algorithm, right?


Thanks,
Valentin

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-08  7:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-30 10:53 mac80211 and broadcast frames Valentin Manea
2009-06-30 15:48 ` Valentin Manea
2009-06-30 16:20 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-07-01  6:42   ` Valentin Manea
2009-07-01  8:04     ` who can share 802.11s draft Angela
2009-07-01 17:33     ` mac80211 and broadcast frames Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-07-07  8:02       ` Valentin Manea
2009-07-07 11:10         ` David Ross
2009-07-07 14:48           ` John W. Linville
2009-07-07 16:15             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-07-08  7:30               ` Valentin Manea [this message]
2009-07-08 10:06                 ` David Ross
2009-07-08 12:57                 ` John W. Linville
2009-07-08 17:10                   ` Luis R. Rodriguez

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