Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:37583 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751535AbYIXA6o (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:58:44 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:59:31 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Mattias Nissler Cc: Johannes Berg , Ivo van Doorn , Mikko =?iso-8859-1?Q?Virkkil=E4?= , rt2400-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-wireless Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] TX status reporting with help of an ack queue Message-ID: <20080924005931.GB3780@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20080924_025854_960733_3F95C9B8) References: <200809151911.32834.IvDoorn@gmail.com> <1221501417.4511.49.camel@localhost> <1221501786.3700.68.camel@johannes.berg> <1221505251.4511.77.camel@localhost> <1221506496.3700.81.camel@johannes.berg> <1221507551.4511.89.camel@localhost> <1221507988.3700.84.camel@johannes.berg> <1221510009.4511.99.camel@localhost> <1221510785.3700.87.camel@johannes.berg> <1221512487.4511.105.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1221512487.4511.105.camel@localhost> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:01:27PM +0200, Mattias Nissler wrote: > Btw. lately I've been thinking about a new RC algo that simply > calculates the throughput achievable by a specific rate (based on the > estimated frame transmission failure ratio and transmission times) and > then selects the one that provides the best throughput. It's still a > very vague idea, but I think it might be interesting to try. This sounds like a reasonable approach. Isn't this more-or-less what Minstrel does? John -- John W. Linville Linux should be at the core linville@tuxdriver.com of your literate lifestyle.