Return-path: Received: from mail-vw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:43432 "EHLO mail-vw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753346Ab0LHQIf (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Dec 2010 11:08:35 -0500 Received: by vws16 with SMTP id 16so1143294vws.19 for ; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 08:08:34 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <201012061714.15863.br1@einfach.org> References: <201012061714.15863.br1@einfach.org> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 11:08:34 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: ath5k: Weird Retransmission Behaviour From: Bob Copeland To: Bruno Randolf Cc: Jonathan Guerin , 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 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