Re: [PATCH] mac80211: remove PID rate control

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Fri, 2014-05-30 at 23:41 +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 30 May 2014 10:47:28 -0400
> "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> 
> > Minstrel has long since proven its worth.
> 
> Just a quick note: a while ago, somebody proposed
> (http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1202.3/02307.html) a
> enhanced version of this algorithm that would, according to the related
> research and paper [1], outperform Minstrel in most cases. The patch
> was not accepted as comments (mostly related to coding style, but not
> only that) weren't addressed by the sender. I then never had the time
> to seriously look into it. My understanding is that the amended
> algorithm would spare some air time compared to Minstrel, and thus it
> could provide marginally better performance.
> 
> So, maybe somebody is interested in looking into that. Otherwise, yes,
> let's drop it.

They can add it back if needed - looks like this was some academic paper
and they weren't really interested in submitting it to mainline
properly.

johannes