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From: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
To: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: [PATCH 002/002] [MAC80211] Increase timeouts for station polling
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:17:00 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1249057021.20593.5.camel@maxim-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1249056817.20593.1.camel@maxim-laptop>

>From 04976d22d45f26aa4b4dece5dd520e3347ac32d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:54:23 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] [MAC80211] Increase timeouts for station polling

Do a probe request every 30 seconds, and wait for probe response, half a second
This should lower the traffic that card sends, thus save power
Wainting longer for response makes probe more robust against 'slow' access points

Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
---
 net/mac80211/mlme.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
index 1d8640a..e4bb590 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
@@ -42,13 +42,13 @@
  * Time the connection can be idle before we probe
  * it to see if we can still talk to the AP.
  */
-#define IEEE80211_CONNECTION_IDLE_TIME	(2 * HZ)
+#define IEEE80211_CONNECTION_IDLE_TIME	(30 * HZ)
 /*
  * Time we wait for a probe response after sending
  * a probe request because of beacon loss or for
  * checking the connection still works.
  */
-#define IEEE80211_PROBE_WAIT		(HZ / 5)
+#define IEEE80211_PROBE_WAIT		(HZ / 2)
 
 #define TMR_RUNNING_TIMER	0
 #define TMR_RUNNING_CHANSW	1
-- 
1.6.0.4




  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-31 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-31 16:13 [PATCH 000/002] Fix frequent reconnects caused by new conection monitor Maxim Levitsky
2009-07-31 16:14 ` [PATCH 001/002] [MAC80211] Retry probe request few times Maxim Levitsky
2009-07-31 16:21   ` Johannes Berg
2009-08-05  2:22   ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-08-05  5:29     ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-08-05  5:33       ` Johannes Berg
2009-08-05  5:50         ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-08-05  5:51           ` Johannes Berg
2009-08-05  5:53             ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-08-05  5:58               ` Johannes Berg
2009-08-05 15:45       ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-07-31 16:17 ` Maxim Levitsky [this message]
2009-07-31 16:21   ` [PATCH 002/002] [MAC80211] Increase timeouts for station polling Johannes Berg
2009-07-31 18:52 ` [PATCH 000/002] Fix frequent reconnects caused by new conection monitor reinette chatre
2009-07-31 19:08   ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-07-31 19:27     ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-07-31 20:05       ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-08-01 15:25         ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-08-03 22:33 ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-08-03 23:58   ` Marcel Holtmann

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