From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Cc: ath10k <ath10k@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Using host's rate-ctrl in ath10k?
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 09:06:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54219A6E.6080902@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+BoTQ=wwCbfFqdQqgYfu9RTLiuot-bNh3mNN0c3R=1R_FUTzQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 09/23/2014 12:17 AM, Michal Kazior wrote:
> On 22 September 2014 19:42, Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:
>> Has anyone looked into what it would take to use standard host OS's
>> rate control (minstrel_ht) with ath10k?
>>
>> I suspect the ath10k rate control logic in the firmware is
>> a bit dodgy, and it would be nice to use something with wider
>> testing such as minstrel_ht...
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong but that would require tx completions to
> include tx retry information and a way to setup tx retries.
Something like that...I have not looked in detail. It would
require a re-compile of the firmware at least.
I just don't like that we are depending on the firmware for something
something as tricky as rate control, especially when it seems buggy.
But, I don't have time to deal with trying to move it into
the driver now, and certainly not as a patch I would have to
carry forever in my own tree.
Thanks,
Ben
> I recall there's a WMI command to control tx retries in 10.1 but I
> think the WMI service bitmap doesn't indicate it as enabled (at least
> in official firmware binaries) so I guess it's just a no-op now.
> There's also HTT pktlog which is able to deliver tx descriptors to the
> host but these aren't public.
>
>
> Michał
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-22 17:42 Using host's rate-ctrl in ath10k? Ben Greear
2014-09-23 7:17 ` Michal Kazior
2014-09-23 16:06 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2014-09-24 0:38 ` Avery Pennarun
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