Return-path: Received: from mail-qw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.216.46]:62643 "EHLO mail-qw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755319Ab0LHVyD (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Dec 2010 16:54:03 -0500 Received: by qwa26 with SMTP id 26so1797930qwa.19 for ; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:54:02 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <201012061714.15863.br1@einfach.org> From: Jonathan Guerin Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 07:53:47 +1000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: ath5k: Weird Retransmission Behaviour To: Bob Copeland Cc: 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 2:08 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). I only seem to have Minstrel as the only available Rate Control algorithm in my kernel config? Cheers, Jonathan > > -- > Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com >