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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Gaurang Ramesh Naik <gaurang@vt.edu>, ath10k@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Dynamic Bandwidth in hw rate control
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2016 22:23:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5758FD6B.40409@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFc9h7uxTOUxONvW-gvgkFLUNR9OBn09kfetF9gqAtcNqN3SLg@mail.gmail.com>



On 06/08/2016 08:10 PM, Gaurang Ramesh Naik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I needed a small clarification related to dynamic bandwidth setup. The
> documentation in wmi.h says " When enabled HW rate control tries
> different bandwidths when retransmitting frames."
>
> Does this mean that each packet is first always tried over VHT80 and
> if that fails it goes to HT40 and then to HT20? I tried this with one
> AP-Sta operating in VHT80 and one AP operating in its first secondary
> channel. When I check the rx rate info using "iw dev wlanx station
> dump", the bandwidth seems to sometimes alternate between 20 and 80,
> but sometimes it stays fixed at 20. Hence, I was wondering what really
> happens.

For one thing, if the hardware detects interference on secondary channels,
then it may decide to transmit a 20Mhz encoding.

The rate-ctrl algs in the firmware differ from release to release, but
the general goal is to transmit with the fastest encoding rate.

Thanks,
Ben

>
> Thanks,
> Gaurang.
>
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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-09  5:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-09  3:10 Dynamic Bandwidth in hw rate control Gaurang Ramesh Naik
2016-06-09  5:23 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2016-06-16 19:57   ` Gaurang Ramesh Naik
2016-06-16 20:06     ` Dave Taht
2016-06-16 20:54     ` Ben Greear
2016-06-16 22:44       ` Gaurang Ramesh Naik
2016-06-17  0:11         ` Ben Greear

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