From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Cc: randy.dunlap@oracle.com, br1@thinktube.com, peterz@infradead.org,
blp@cs.stanford.edu, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lars_Ericsson@telia.com, j@w1.fi,
stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, kevin.granade@gmail.com,
johannes@sipsolutions.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] nl80211/mac80211: Report signal average
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 14:06:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101207190631.GE2700@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101202101242.22988.56087.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 07:12:43PM +0900, Bruno Randolf wrote:
> Extend nl80211 to report an exponential weighted moving average (EWMA) of the
> signal value. Since the signal value usually fluctuates between different
> packets, an average can be more useful than the value of the last packet.
>
> This uses the recently added generic EWMA library function.
>
> --
> v2: fix ABI breakage and change factor to be a power of 2.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Jouni and Johannes, are you satisfied with this version?
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-07 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-02 10:12 [PATCH 1/3] ath5k: Use EWMA factor of 1024 instead of 1000 Bruno Randolf
2010-12-02 10:12 ` [PATCH 2/3] lib: Improve EWMA efficiency by using bitshifts Bruno Randolf
2010-12-02 10:20 ` Johannes Berg
2010-12-02 10:37 ` Bruno Randolf
2010-12-02 10:12 ` [PATCH 3/3] nl80211/mac80211: Report signal average Bruno Randolf
2010-12-07 19:06 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2010-12-07 19:17 ` Johannes Berg
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