From: Arnd Hannemann <hannemann@nets.rwth-aachen.de>
To: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Minstrel's definition of best throughput
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:14:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A8D5A48.5070809@nets.rwth-aachen.de> (raw)
Hi,
while watching the rc_stats of minstrel, I noticed
that minstrel does not choose the rate with best throughput.
For example, I often see something like this:
rate throughput ewma prob this prob this succ/attempt success attempts
1 0.8 89.1 100.0 0( 0) 1490 2257
2 1.8 95.3 100.0 0( 0) 13 15
5.5 4.8 95.5 100.0 0( 0) 17 22
P 11 9.4 98.5 100.0 0( 0) 1532 2195
6 5.4 95.6 100.0 0( 0) 28 88
9 8.1 96.2 100.0 0( 0) 143 431
12 8.7 78.8 100.0 0( 0) 209 814
18 12.3 75.8 100.0 0( 0) 302 2416
24 18.3 86.2 100.0 0( 0) 5765 9196
36 2.6 85.2 100.0 0( 0) 736813 886517
T 48 14.7 97.4 100.0 2( 2) 3433862 4411674
t 54 8.5 73.3 100.0 0( 0) 1488241 2180261
Why did minstrel chose the 48M rate, and not 24M for the best throughput rate?
Also "this prob" seems fishy to me, its always 100...
Another thing: I noticed that the througput field in minstrel_rate is never used?
Should I send a patch, removing it? Or does anyone remember why it was there
in the first place?
Best regards,
Arnd
P.S. runnning 2.6.31-rc6 with ath5k...
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2009-08-20 14:14 Arnd Hannemann [this message]
2009-08-20 20:45 ` Minstrel's definition of best throughput Felix Fietkau
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