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From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
To:     Baligh Gasmi <gasmibal@gmail.com>
Cc:     Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
        linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 2/3] mac80211: add periodic monitor for channel busy time
References: <20220601112903.2346319-1-gasmibal@gmail.com>
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Date:   Tue, 21 Jun 2022 10:28:11 +0300
In-Reply-To: <20220601112903.2346319-3-gasmibal@gmail.com> (Baligh Gasmi's
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Baligh Gasmi <gasmibal@gmail.com> writes:

> Add a worker scheduled periodicaly to calculate the busy time average of
> the current channel.
>
> This will be used in the estimation for expected throughput.
>
> Signed-off-by: Baligh Gasmi <gasmibal@gmail.com>

[...]

> --- a/net/mac80211/iface.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c
> @@ -1970,6 +1970,64 @@ static void ieee80211_assign_perm_addr(struct ieee80211_local *local,
>  	mutex_unlock(&local->iflist_mtx);
>  }
>  
> +#define DEFAULT_MONITOR_INTERVAL_MS 1000

I'm worried that polling every second affects power consumption.

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