Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:42087 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750993Ab0LHRAN (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Dec 2010 12:00:13 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 11:56:07 -0500 From: "John W. Linville" To: Bob Copeland Cc: Bruno Randolf , Jonathan Guerin , linux-wireless , ath5k-devel , nbd@openwrt.org Subject: Re: ath5k: Weird Retransmission Behaviour Message-ID: <20101208165607.GE2423@tuxdriver.com> References: <201012061714.15863.br1@einfach.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:45:39AM -0500, Bob Copeland wrote: > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Bob Copeland wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Bruno Randolf wrote: > >> But it seems weird that there are so many retransmissions. The default maximum > >> numbers of retransmissions should be 7 for short frames and 4 for long frames > >> (dot11[Short|Long]RetryLimit), and this is what is set as defaults in mac80211 > >> (local->hw.conf.short_frame_max_tx_count). Seems we are getting many > >> retransmissions from minstel, i added some debug prints: > >> > > > > I posted a patch for this about a week ago to linux-wireless. > > > > AFAICT minstrel doesn't use these configuration parrameters > > at all (but PID does). > > > > -- > > Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com > > > > Found the patch: > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/359722/ Are you posting that for merging? Or just for testing? -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.