From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Cc: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>,
Jonathan Guerin <jonathan@guerin.id.au>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
ath5k-devel <ath5k-devel@venema.h4ckr.net>,
nbd@openwrt.org
Subject: Re: ath5k: Weird Retransmission Behaviour
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 11:56:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101208165607.GE2423@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=95mO085Y1PJ3brMMpHa=QvkxSB3SUpQysvKr+@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:45:39AM -0500, Bob Copeland wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> wrote:
> >> But it seems weird that there are so many retransmissions. The default maximum
> >> numbers of retransmissions should be 7 for short frames and 4 for long frames
> >> (dot11[Short|Long]RetryLimit), and this is what is set as defaults in mac80211
> >> (local->hw.conf.short_frame_max_tx_count). Seems we are getting many
> >> retransmissions from minstel, i added some debug prints:
> >>
> >
> > I posted a patch for this about a week ago to linux-wireless.
> >
> > AFAICT minstrel doesn't use these configuration parrameters
> > at all (but PID does).
> >
> > --
> > Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com
> >
>
> Found the patch:
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/359722/
Are you posting that for merging? Or just for testing?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-08 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-06 6:30 ath5k: Weird Retransmission Behaviour Jonathan Guerin
2010-12-06 8:14 ` Bruno Randolf
2010-12-06 9:36 ` [ath5k-devel] " Nick Kossifidis
2010-12-06 10:53 ` Sedat Dilek
2010-12-07 2:29 ` Bruno Randolf
2010-12-07 1:17 ` Jonathan Guerin
2010-12-08 8:06 ` Bruno Randolf
2010-12-08 8:12 ` Jonathan Guerin
2010-12-06 18:01 ` Björn Smedman
2010-12-07 1:19 ` Jonathan Guerin
2010-12-07 1:12 ` Jonathan Guerin
2010-12-07 2:34 ` Bruno Randolf
2010-12-08 16:08 ` Bob Copeland
2010-12-08 16:45 ` Bob Copeland
2010-12-08 16:56 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2010-12-08 17:06 ` Bob Copeland
2010-12-08 17:11 ` Bob Copeland
2010-12-08 17:50 ` Sedat Dilek
2010-12-08 21:36 ` Bob Copeland
2010-12-08 21:53 ` Jonathan Guerin
2010-12-09 9:21 ` Helmut Schaa
2010-12-09 12:38 ` Bob Copeland
2010-12-09 14:34 ` Jonathan Guerin
2010-12-09 17:00 ` Bob Copeland
2010-12-09 22:41 ` Jonathan Guerin
2010-12-06 9:38 ` Nick Kossifidis
2010-12-07 1:18 ` Jonathan Guerin
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