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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Cc: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wl12xx: declare support for IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:16:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1296641782.5671.0.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1296638405-28704-1-git-send-email-eliad@wizery.com>

On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 11:20 +0200, Eliad Peller wrote:
> The wl12xx fw supports ack status reporting for tx frames, so
> add the IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS flag to our supported
> features.
> 
> Since we do the rate control in the fw, we'll probably want
> to adjust the STA_LOST_PKT_THRESHOLD heuristics in the future, to
> account for retransmissions as well.

I agree, they're very rough -- they don't even account for
retransmissions now. I also think some timing should be taken into
account as TCP will quickly stop sending packets.

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-02 10:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-02  9:20 [PATCH] wl12xx: declare support for IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS Eliad Peller
2011-02-02 10:16 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2011-02-23 13:52 ` Luciano Coelho

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