From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC V2] bcm43xx-mac80211: Provide information to allow transmission rate decreases
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 13:37:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708021337.21285.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1186053497.24230.27.camel@johannes.berg>
On Thursday 02 August 2007 13:18:17 Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 13:11 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
>
> > We don't get a "I failed to transmit this" bit from the firmware,
>
> Well, if you expect the frame to be acked then you do get a bit 'this
> frame was ever acked'
Yep, the problem is for frames that don't get acked.
If we just check the ack bit, rate control would throttle, just because
we sent unacked frames.
So if we didn't get an ack, we need to check if we failed, or if...
Oh, acutally. Why not simply check the noack bit in the tx_control... :)
--
Greetings Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-02 11:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-01 20:56 [RFC V2] bcm43xx-mac80211: Provide information to allow transmission rate decreases Larry Finger
2007-08-01 22:14 ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-02 9:09 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-02 11:11 ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-02 11:18 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-02 11:37 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2007-08-02 11:48 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-02 13:03 ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-02 13:07 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-02 15:02 ` Larry Finger
2007-08-03 9:40 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-01 22:48 ` rob m
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