Chenchong's work on net80211_ratectl

[Adrian Chadd]

Well just remember you can always ask me/us questions!

What's your latest diff against -HEAD? Maybe I can start looking at
including parts of it in the tree.




-adrian

On 2 August 2013 09:17, Chenchong Qin <qinchenchong at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
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> These days, I'm taking a further look at what Linux done for the
> _completion_ of a
> frame. Some updates will be posted here later.
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> And, with ir_rates, we can return/fill an rc array rather than just
> returning the rix.
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> Thanks!
>
> Chenchong
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> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 12:21 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>> Boo!
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>> Do you have another update?
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>> -adrian
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>> On 24 July 2013 06:44, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> > On 24 July 2013 06:38, Chenchong Qin <qinchenchong at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> My pleasure!
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>> >> It's also against HEAD.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks!
>> >
>> > Ok. This is looking great!
>> >
>> > Next - we need to update the rate control API to now populate an rc
>> > array rather than just returning the rix.
>> >
>> > This is the tricky part - as we're going to have to modify all the
>> > drivers that use the rate control API to use this.
>> > Which is fine, as there's only a handful. It's just annoying.
>> >
>> > Then we have to provide the rate control information during frame
>> > _completion_, so the rate control code knows which transmission rates
>> > succeeded or failed. I'm still not sure what to do about it here.
>> > Maybe do something like Linux and attach TX rate control and
>> > completion information as an mbuf tag?
>> >
>> > _Then_ we can start doing interesting thing with it. :)
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>> > -adrian
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