Chenchong's work on net80211_ratectl

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Wed Jul 31 16:21:45 UTC 2013


Boo!

Do you have another update?



-adrian

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!
>>
>> 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. :)
>
>
>
> -adrian


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