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From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
To: Karl Beldan <karl.beldan@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: use capped prob when computing throughputs
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 15:04:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <528CC172.1040402@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131120135628.GA9335@magnum.frso.rivierawaves.com>

On 2013-11-20 14:56, Karl Beldan wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 08:32:32AM +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> On 2013-11-20 01:51, Karl Beldan wrote:
>> > From: Karl Beldan <karl.beldan@rivierawaves.com>
>> > 
>> > Commit 3e8b1eb "mac80211/minstrel_ht: improve rate selection stability"
>> > introduced a local capped prob in minstrel_ht_calc_tp but omitted to use
>> > it to compute the rate throughput.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Karl Beldan <karl.beldan@rivierawaves.com>
>> > CC: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
>> Nice catch!
>> Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
>> 
> Interestingly enough, consecutive coding rates (5/6, 3/4, 2/3) max ratio
> is 9/10, did you do it on purpose ?  (e.g. (9/10) * (5/6) == 3/4,
> (9/10) * (3/4) == 2/3 + 11/120).
The change has nothing to do with coding rates, it's only about
retransmissions caused by collisions under load.

- Felix


  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-20 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-20  0:51 [PATCH] mac80211: use capped prob when computing throughputs Karl Beldan
2013-11-20  7:32 ` Felix Fietkau
2013-11-20 13:56   ` Karl Beldan
2013-11-20 14:04     ` Felix Fietkau [this message]
2013-11-20 14:50       ` Karl Beldan
2013-11-20 15:49         ` Felix Fietkau
2013-11-20 16:19           ` Karl Beldan
2013-11-20 17:32             ` Felix Fietkau
2013-11-20 17:53               ` Karl Beldan
2013-11-20 18:24                 ` Felix Fietkau
2013-11-20 16:57   ` Felix Fietkau
2013-11-20 17:03     ` Karl Beldan
2013-11-20 17:04     ` Karl Beldan
2013-11-20 17:37       ` Felix Fietkau

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