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
next prev 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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