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Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] ath10k: reporting estimated tx airtime for fairness
To:     Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@codeaurora.org>,
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        Kan Yan <kyan@google.com>, linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org
From:   Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
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Date:   Fri, 28 Sep 2018 12:57:13 -0700
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On 09/28/2018 12:47 PM, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
> On 2018-09-28 08:25, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>
>> So this just uses the calculated airtime based on rate and size? Wasn't
>> there supposed to be an airtime usage value reported by the firmware? :)
>>
> Firmware interface changes are in progress. Airtime for sta/tid will be reported via
> htt tx-compl and rx ind messages. Meantime I thought it would be useful to use Kan's changes
> for ATF validation in ath10k using existing firmware. :)

Maybe you can get the firmware guys to report the tx rate in the tx-completion
(like I have been doing for years in my ath10k-ct firmware)?  Then let the host
do the air-time calculating?

I'll give them firmware patches if the want :)

Thanks,
Ben

>
> -Rajkumar
>


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