Return-path: Received: from mail-qy0-f177.google.com ([209.85.216.177]:45824 "EHLO mail-qy0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752638Ab0LIOef convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2010 09:34:35 -0500 Received: by qyk27 with SMTP id 27so2109073qyk.1 for ; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 06:34:35 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20101209123841.GA31566@hash.localnet> References: <201012061714.15863.br1@einfach.org> <20101209123841.GA31566@hash.localnet> From: Jonathan Guerin Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:34:19 +1000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: ath5k: Weird Retransmission Behaviour To: Bob Copeland Cc: Helmut Schaa , Bruno Randolf , linux-wireless , ath5k-devel , nbd@openwrt.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Bob Copeland wrote: > On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 10:21:34AM +0100, Helmut Schaa wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Jonathan Guerin wrote: >> > I only seem to have Minstrel as the only available Rate Control >> > algorithm in my kernel config? >> >> PID is only selectable on embedded platforms: >> >> config MAC80211_RC_PID >> ? ? ? ? bool "PID controller based rate control algorithm" if EMBEDDED >> >> Just remove the "if EMBEDDED" from net/mac8011/Kconfig and retry. > > For what it's worth, I tested pid and minstrel a while ago with a > modified mac80211_hwsim, and found minstrel to be quite a bit better > at rate adaptation. ?So while it may be worth testing out for this > particular use case, minstrel is probably the way to go in general. So, while I say this with no idea how to do it, might it be worth fixing Minstrel so that it adheres to mac80211's maximum retry values? Cheers, Jonathan > > -- > Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com > >