Return-path: Received: from mail-qw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.216.46]:33506 "EHLO mail-qw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753354Ab0LIWmB convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2010 17:42:01 -0500 Received: by qwa26 with SMTP id 26so3160173qwa.19 for ; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 14:41:59 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20101209170040.GA24840@hash.localnet> References: <201012061714.15863.br1@einfach.org> <20101209123841.GA31566@hash.localnet> <20101209170040.GA24840@hash.localnet> From: Jonathan Guerin Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:41:37 +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 Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Bob Copeland wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:34:19AM +1000, Jonathan Guerin wrote: >> > 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? > > Yeah, so that's what the linked patch I posted tries to do :) Doh! I didn't read it properly - I assumed it was for PID... My bad. Cheers, Jonathan > > -- > Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com > >