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From: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
To: Mohammed Shafi <shafi.wireless@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, johannes@sipsolutions.net,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Update last_tx_rate only for data frames
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 16:14:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201012011614.07163.helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201012011540.45031.helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>

Am Mittwoch 01 Dezember 2010 schrieb Helmut Schaa:
> Am Mittwoch 01 Dezember 2010 schrieb Mohammed Shafi:
> > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Helmut Schaa
> > <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > The last_tx_rate field was also updated for non-data frames that are
> > > often sent with a lower rate (for example management frames at 1 Mbps).
> > > This is confusing when the data rate is actually much higher.
> > >
> > > Hence, only update the last_tx_rate field with tx rate information
> > > gathered from the last data frames.
> >
> > Hi Helmut,
> >             I have a doubt,ideally should not this be taken care by the driver ?
> 
> Sorry, I don't get your point. How should that be handled by the driver? Could
> you please elaborate?

Ahh, did you mean that should be taken care of by the rate control algorithm?

I agree, if the rate control algortihm returns a rate via txrc.reported_rate
we should just use that without further validation.

Nevertheless, if the rate control algortihm doesn't fill in txrc.reported_rate
we should only account data frames.

Will send an updated patch.

Helmut

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-01 15:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-01 11:18 [PATCH] mac80211: Update last_tx_rate only for data frames Helmut Schaa
2010-12-01 14:04 ` Mohammed Shafi
2010-12-01 14:40   ` Helmut Schaa
2010-12-01 15:03     ` Mohammed Shafi
2010-12-01 15:14     ` Helmut Schaa [this message]
2010-12-01 15:21       ` Mohammed Shafi
2010-12-01 16:54     ` Larry Finger
2010-12-01 15:34 ` [PATCHv2] " Helmut Schaa

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