From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
To: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mac80211: Get rid of search loop for rate group index
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:40:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EC12871.2070402@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321280900-24006-3-git-send-email-helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
On 2011-11-14 3:28 PM, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> Finding the group index for a specific rate is done by looping through
> all groups and returning if the correct one is found. This code is
> called for each tx'ed frame and thus it makes sense to reduce its
> runtime.
>
> Do this by calculating the group index by this formula based on the SGI
> and HT40 flags as well as the stream number:
>
> idx = (HT40 * 2 * MINSTREL_MAX_STREAMS) +
> (SGI * MINSTREL_MAX_STREAMS) +
> (streams - 1)
>
> Hence, the groups are ordered by th HT40 flag first, then by the SGI
> flag and afterwards by the number of used streams.
>
> This should reduce the runtime of minstrel_ht_get_group_idx
> considerable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa<helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
For the whole series:
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-14 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-14 14:28 [PATCH 1/3] mac80211: Minor optimization in minstrel_ht tx status path Helmut Schaa
2011-11-14 14:28 ` [PATCH 2/3] mac80211: Check rate->idx before rate->count Helmut Schaa
2011-11-14 14:28 ` [PATCH 3/3] mac80211: Get rid of search loop for rate group index Helmut Schaa
2011-11-14 14:40 ` Felix Fietkau [this message]
2011-11-16 15:39 ` [PATCH 1/3] mac80211: Minor optimization in minstrel_ht tx status path Stanislaw Gruszka
2011-11-16 16:02 ` Helmut Schaa
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