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From: john <karl.beldan@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Karl Beldan <karl.beldan@gmail.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Karl Beldan <karl.beldan@rivierawaves.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mac80211: get the rates masks from the txrc in rate_control_get_rate
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 21:45:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130304204541.GA8819@gobelin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1362427924.21028.42.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net>

On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 09:12:04PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 19:27 +0100, Karl Beldan wrote:
> > From: Karl Beldan <karl.beldan@rivierawaves.com>
> > 
> > Currently it gets it from the sdata. This uses and updates the ad-hoc
> > masks of the ieee80211_tx_rate_control instead of copying them.
> 
> Is there any need to update them?
> 
> The change for "mask" seems to make it less efficient since it could
> otherwise be put into a register.
> 
Totally, this commit spares the 10bytes copy of mcs_mask but adds a less
efficient indirection to mask.
I thought of it but kept the symmetry with mcs_mask.
Apparently you wouldn't mind the dissymmetry so I will re-send using mask
by value, plus I wrote "updates .." where it is more like "lets the
ad-hoc masks get overwritten".
 
Karl

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-04 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-04 18:27 [PATCH v2 1/2] mac80211: get the rates masks from the txrc in rate_control_get_rate Karl Beldan
2013-03-04 18:27 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] mac80211: fix the check for mcs rates masking Karl Beldan
2013-03-04 20:13   ` Johannes Berg
2013-03-04 20:51     ` john
2013-03-04 20:12 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] mac80211: get the rates masks from the txrc in rate_control_get_rate Johannes Berg
2013-03-04 20:45   ` john [this message]
2013-03-05 13:29     ` Felix Fietkau
2013-03-05 16:10       ` Karl Beldan
2013-03-05 18:53         ` Johannes Berg
2013-03-05 22:27           ` john
2013-03-10 22:35             ` Karl Beldan
2013-03-10 22:16       ` Karl Beldan
2013-03-10 22:27         ` Felix Fietkau
2013-03-10 23:06           ` Karl Beldan
2013-03-10 23:33             ` Felix Fietkau
2013-03-15 15:46             ` Johannes Berg

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