From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, andrey@cozybit.com,
linville@tuxdriver.com, devel@lists.open80211s.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Decouple fail_avg stats used by mesh from rate control algorithm.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:45:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1250585151.1313.0.camel@johannes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1250554555-32259-1-git-send-email-javier@cozybit.com>
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On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 17:15 -0700, Javier Cardona wrote:
> Mesh uses the tx failure average to compute the (m)path metric. This used to
> be done inside the rate control module. This patch breaks the dependency
> between the mesh stack and the rate control algorithm. Mesh will now work
> independently of the chosen rate control algorithm.
>
> The mesh stack keeps a moving average of the average transmission losses for
> each mesh peer station. If the fail average exceeds a certain threshold, the
> peer link is marked as broken.
Looks good, means it can also work for ath9k etc. eventually.
johannes
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2009-08-18 0:09 [PATCH] mac80211: Decouple fail_avg stats used by mesh from rate control algorithm Javier Cardona
2009-08-18 0:15 ` Javier Cardona
2009-08-18 8:45 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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