From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Sven Eckelmann <sven@open-mesh.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>,
Marek Lindner <marek@open-mesh.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: lock rate control
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 16:53:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1425570829.2493.28.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4955461.tuO2xra8Dr@bentobox> (sfid-20150305_165241_332301_188B5342)
On Thu, 2015-03-05 at 16:52 +0100, Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> > I've manipulated hostapd to test this, by having it change its
> > advertised bandwidth roughly ever 150ms. At the same time, I'm
> > running a flood ping between the client and the AP, which causes
> > this race of update vs. get_rate/status to easily happen on the
> > client. With this change, the system survives this test.
> I will ask if it is possible to test this patch in an affected network. But I
> am quite sure that this will not be possible before next week. And your test
> already sounds quite nice.
Note that I tested with iwlwifi, not with minstrel. However, I'm pretty
sure it's the same problem.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-05 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-05 15:37 [RFC] mac80211: lock rate control Johannes Berg
2015-03-05 15:52 ` Sven Eckelmann
2015-03-05 15:53 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2015-03-05 16:59 ` Johannes Berg
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