From: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@Atheros.com>,
Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>,
Chittajit Mitra <Chittajit.Mitra@Atheros.com>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"linville@tuxdriver.com" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
"ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net"
<ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Derek Smithies <derek@indranet.co.nz>,
"ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org" <ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org>,
Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH 14/15] mac80211: move management / no-ack frame rate decision to mac80211
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:42:58 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1244187778.3952.2.camel@jm-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1244183288.22576.93.camel@johannes.local>
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 23:28 -0700, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 01:41 -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > All rate control algorithms agree to send management and no-ack
> > frames at the lowest rate. They also agree to do this when sta
> > and the private rate control data is NULL. We move this to mac80211
> > and simplify the rate control algorithm code.
>
> We previously thought this would constrain our rate control algorithms
> more than we would like for future experimentation with higher multicast
> rates. Has that changed?
I hope not. I don't like the idea of forcing the lowest rate in
mac80211; we should allow rate control algorithms to be improved to do
more intelligent selection of rate at least for multicast/broadcast
frames. That might also be of use for some (likely post-association)
unicast management frames since their use is going to increase in the
future.
- Jouni
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-05 7:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-05 5:41 [PATCH 00/15] ath9k/mac80211/iwlwifi: rate control cleanup Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-05 5:41 ` [PATCH 01/15] ath9k: fix oops by downgrading assert in rc.c Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-05 6:30 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2009-06-05 7:47 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-05 7:52 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2009-06-05 18:29 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-06 6:55 ` Vasanth Thiagarajan
2009-06-09 0:26 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-09 0:58 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-09 5:24 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2009-06-09 5:27 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2009-06-09 5:35 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2009-06-09 5:19 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2009-06-05 22:16 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-06-05 22:27 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-05 5:41 ` [PATCH 02/15] ath9k: cleanup try count for MRR in rate control Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-05 5:41 ` [PATCH 03/15] ath9k: remove unused min rate calculation code Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-05 5:41 ` [PATCH 04/15] ath9k: remove unused stepdown when looking for the next rate Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-05 5:41 ` [PATCH 05/15] ath9k: remove pointless wrapper ath_rc_rate_getidx() Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-05 5:41 ` [PATCH 06/15] ath9k: rename ath_rc_get_nextlowervalid_txrate() Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-05 5:41 ` [PATCH 07/15] ath9k: remove unused ath_rc_isvalid_txmask() Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-05 5:41 ` [PATCH 08/15] ath9k: remove ATH9K_MODE_11B Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-05 5:41 ` [PATCH 09/15] ath9k: remap ATH9K_MODE_* Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-05 5:41 ` [PATCH 10/15] ath9k: rename ath_rc_ratefind_ht() to ath_rc_get_highest_rix() Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-05 5:41 ` [PATCH 11/15] ath9k: remove unnecessary IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK checks Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-05 5:41 ` [PATCH 12/15] mac80211: make minstrel/pid RC use ieee80211_is_data(fc) Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-05 6:24 ` Johannes Berg
2009-06-05 6:34 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-05 6:52 ` Johannes Berg
2009-06-05 5:41 ` [PATCH 13/15] iwlwifi: " Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-05 14:56 ` Help ath5k José Luis Vargas Araoz
2009-06-05 5:41 ` [PATCH 14/15] mac80211: move management / no-ack frame rate decision to mac80211 Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-05 6:28 ` Johannes Berg
2009-06-05 7:42 ` Jouni Malinen [this message]
2009-06-05 7:45 ` [ath9k-devel] " Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-05 5:41 ` [PATCH 15/15] ath9k: remove rate control wraper Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-05 5:52 ` [PATCH 00/15] ath9k/mac80211/iwlwifi: rate control cleanup Luis R. Rodriguez
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