Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f217.google.com ([209.85.220.217]:59668 "EHLO mail-fx0-f217.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751459AbZGaQRH (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:17:07 -0400 Received: by fxm17 with SMTP id 17so1463985fxm.37 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:17:07 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [PATCH 002/002] [MAC80211] Increase timeouts for station polling From: Maxim Levitsky To: linux-wireless Cc: linville , Reinette Chatre , Johannes Berg In-Reply-To: <1249056817.20593.1.camel@maxim-laptop> References: <1249056817.20593.1.camel@maxim-laptop> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:17:00 +0300 Message-Id: <1249057021.20593.5.camel@maxim-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: >From 04976d22d45f26aa4b4dece5dd520e3347ac32d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Maxim Levitsky Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:54:23 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] [MAC80211] Increase timeouts for station polling Do a probe request every 30 seconds, and wait for probe response, half a second This should lower the traffic that card sends, thus save power Wainting longer for response makes probe more robust against 'slow' access points Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky --- net/mac80211/mlme.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c index 1d8640a..e4bb590 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c @@ -42,13 +42,13 @@ * Time the connection can be idle before we probe * it to see if we can still talk to the AP. */ -#define IEEE80211_CONNECTION_IDLE_TIME (2 * HZ) +#define IEEE80211_CONNECTION_IDLE_TIME (30 * HZ) /* * Time we wait for a probe response after sending * a probe request because of beacon loss or for * checking the connection still works. */ -#define IEEE80211_PROBE_WAIT (HZ / 5) +#define IEEE80211_PROBE_WAIT (HZ / 2) #define TMR_RUNNING_TIMER 0 #define TMR_RUNNING_CHANSW 1 -- 1.6.0.4