[ath9k-devel] ath9k-devel: mac80211 Rate Control

[ath9k-devel] ath9k-devel: mac80211 Rate Control

["Lorna González"]

Hello, 

I have some questions regarding mac80211 rate control:

1. Is minstrel the default rate control algorithm? 
2. If I built two interfaces on the mac80211 layer and I connect one interface i.e. wlan0 to an ieee802.11g AP and the second one i.e. wlan1 to a iee802.11n AP. Will the rate control work independent for each network or
it would take for both networks the rate control of the iee802.11g/n? Has someone made a similar test?
3. Does rate control also aply for virtual wiphys? or since the mac80211 does not know about multiple radios there is not rate control implemented?

I appreciate your comments 

Best regards

Lorna Gonz?lez 
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[ath9k-devel] ath9k-devel: mac80211 Rate Control

[Felix Fietkau]

On 2010-09-21 10:37 AM, "Lorna Gonz?lez" wrote:
> 
> Hello, 
> 
> I have some questions regarding mac80211 rate control:
> 
> 1. Is minstrel the default rate control algorithm? 
minstrel_ht is for 802.11n, for legacy it falls back to minstrel.
ath9k still uses its own rate control by default though - but I sent a
patch that allows you to turn that off :)

> 2. If I built two interfaces on the mac80211 layer and I connect one interface i.e. wlan0 to an ieee802.11g AP and the second one i.e. wlan1 to a iee802.11n AP. Will the rate control work independent for each network or
> it would take for both networks the rate control of the iee802.11g/n? Has someone made a similar test?
> 3. Does rate control also aply for virtual wiphys? or since the mac80211 does not know about multiple radios there is not rate control implemented?
No need to test for this specifically, since rate control works on each
individual peer anyway, so it doesn't matter whether there's one virtual
interface or any other number.

- Felix

[ath9k-devel] ath9k-devel: mac80211 Rate Control

[Lito]

Felix Fietkau <nbd <at> openwrt.org> writes:

> 
> On 2010-09-21 10:37 AM, "Lorna Gonz?lez" wrote:
> > 
> > Hello, 
> > 
> > I have some questions regarding mac80211 rate control:
> > 
> > 1. Is minstrel the default rate control algorithm? 
> minstrel_ht is for 802.11n, for legacy it falls back to minstrel.
> ath9k still uses its own rate control by default though - but I sent a
> patch that allows you to turn that off :)

I am interested in disabling all rate adaptation algorithms in ath9k. how could 
I do that?
thnx a lot in advance,
Lito

> 
> > 2. If I built two interfaces on the mac80211 layer and I connect one 
interface i.e. wlan0 to an ieee802.11g
> AP and the second one i.e. wlan1 to a iee802.11n AP. Will the rate control 
work independent for each network or
> > it would take for both networks the rate control of the iee802.11g/n? Has 
someone made a similar test?
> > 3. Does rate control also aply for virtual wiphys? or since the mac80211 
does not know about multiple
> radios there is not rate control implemented?
> No need to test for this specifically, since rate control works on each
> individual peer anyway, so it doesn't matter whether there's one virtual
> interface or any other number.
> 
> - Felix
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