From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
To: Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: add rate to ieee80211_tx_status
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:24:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A72E13.8070305@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1ba2fa240802040713k56fdf22fp8ab15924bbebe88@mail.gmail.com>
Tomas Winkler wrote:
>> > Maybe we should add blob to tx_status let say of skb->cb[] size and
>> > field for rate scale algorithm version/name. Otherwise we will be
>> > inventing API for each rate scale algorithm...
>>
>> I disagree, we should have something generic enough to allow some sort of
>> "capability negotiation" between the driver and the rate control
>> algorithm, otherwise we could just remove rate control algorithms
>> completely and internalize them into drivers (with some "helper" functions
>> for those who don't want to write their own)... Which I'm sure you might
>> actually like but I don't ;)
>
> So Felix how many rates do you need for each packet?
The algorithm is designed to work with 4 different rates with adjustable
retry counts. A good description can be found here:
http://madwifi.org/browser/madwifi/trunk/ath_rate/minstrel/minstrel.txt
- Felix
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-03 20:15 [RFC] mac80211: add rate to ieee80211_tx_status Tomas Winkler
2008-02-04 8:46 ` Johannes Berg
2008-02-04 9:53 ` Tomas Winkler
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2008-02-04 10:27 ` Tomas Winkler
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2008-02-04 11:05 ` Tomas Winkler
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2008-02-04 11:21 ` Tomas Winkler
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2008-02-04 11:26 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-02-04 11:30 ` Tomas Winkler
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2008-02-04 11:57 ` Tomas Winkler
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2008-02-04 13:35 ` Tomas Winkler
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2008-02-04 13:53 ` Felix Fietkau
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2008-02-04 14:21 ` Tomas Winkler
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2008-02-04 15:13 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-02-04 15:24 ` Felix Fietkau [this message]
2008-02-04 18:36 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-02-04 18:39 ` Felix Fietkau
2008-02-04 19:03 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-02-04 19:05 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-02-05 21:23 ` Stefano Brivio
2008-02-05 23:15 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-02-06 14:13 ` Johannes Berg
2008-02-04 19:07 ` Felix Fietkau
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