[ath9k-devel] Bayesian rate control

Adrian Chadd <[email protected]> Tue, 15 Nov 2016 20:45:27 -0800

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On 15 November 2016 at 01:34, Johannes Berg <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> But there is a per-descriptor TX rate table entry in the driver.
>> FreeBSD uses it to implement its rate control for the intel drivers.
>>
>> What am I missing? :)
>
> Not sure. But there isn't a per-descriptor table in the driver. There's
> a per-station table, that *can* be used in similar ways, but at least
> in Linux none of the APIs are hooked up to the general implementation,
> it's all driver/device-specific code, so it'd be very painful to try to
> experiment with.

Ok. well, we do that. :)

I'll let you know how well it works when I'm doing 11ac with the 7260 driver.



-adrian