Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] TX status reporting with help of an ack queue
From: Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:40:40 +0200
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On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 20:59 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> 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?

I just checked Minstrel out. Seems quite like what I had in mind :-) Are
there any efforts to port minstrel to mac80211?

Mattias