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From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org
Subject: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath9k: apply coverage class on slottime too
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:43:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <508FCB77.9000303@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1351598855-21427-1-git-send-email-siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>

On 2012-10-30 1:07 PM, Simon Wunderlich wrote:
> From: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
> 
> According to 802.11-2007 17.3.8.6 (slot time), the slot time should
> be increased by 3 us * coverage class. The code only increased the
> ack timeout, which is fixed by this patch.
> 
> We have noticed in our long shot scenario that we see less collisions
> with this patch.
At some point I had the slot time increase in the driver, but noticed a
massive throughput degradation on 10-20 km links. Leaving the slot time
alone and changing only the ACK timeout fixed this. What distances did
you test?

- Felix

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From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
To: Simon Wunderlich <simon.wunderlich@s2003.tu-chemnitz.de>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org,
	linville@tuxdriver.com, mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com,
	sven@narfation.org, mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de,
	Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath9k: apply coverage class on slottime too
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:43:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <508FCB77.9000303@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1351598855-21427-1-git-send-email-siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>

On 2012-10-30 1:07 PM, Simon Wunderlich wrote:
> From: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
> 
> According to 802.11-2007 17.3.8.6 (slot time), the slot time should
> be increased by 3 us * coverage class. The code only increased the
> ack timeout, which is fixed by this patch.
> 
> We have noticed in our long shot scenario that we see less collisions
> with this patch.
At some point I had the slot time increase in the driver, but noticed a
massive throughput degradation on 10-20 km links. Leaving the slot time
alone and changing only the ACK timeout fixed this. What distances did
you test?

- Felix


  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-30 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-30 12:07 [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath9k: apply coverage class on slottime too Simon Wunderlich
2012-10-30 12:07 ` Simon Wunderlich
2012-10-30 12:43 ` Felix Fietkau [this message]
2012-10-30 12:43   ` Felix Fietkau
2012-10-30 13:00   ` [ath9k-devel] " Mathias Kretschmer
2012-10-30 13:00     ` Mathias Kretschmer
2012-10-30 13:24     ` [ath9k-devel] " Felix Fietkau
2012-10-30 13:24       ` Felix Fietkau
2012-10-31 10:47       ` [ath9k-devel] " Mathias Kretschmer
2012-10-31 10:47         ` Mathias Kretschmer
2012-11-28 12:06       ` [ath9k-devel] " Simon Wunderlich
2012-11-28 12:06         ` Simon Wunderlich
2012-12-07 12:35   ` [ath9k-devel] " Mathias Kretschmer
2012-12-07 12:35     ` Mathias Kretschmer
2013-04-22 10:08     ` [ath9k-devel] " Simon Wunderlich
2013-04-22 10:08       ` Simon Wunderlich
2013-04-22 10:15       ` [ath9k-devel] " Felix Fietkau
2013-04-22 10:15         ` Felix Fietkau
2013-04-22 18:38         ` [ath9k-devel] " John W. Linville
2013-04-22 18:38           ` John W. Linville

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