On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 06:50 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote: > Receiving all ACKs packets will degraded performance greatly for sure, > even on PCI interface. Well, b43 gives you another way to get transmit status indication, you don't have to receive ACKs > Receving ACK can maybe allowed selectively only for management packets > including EAPOLS in some synchronous way, yet this is still error > prone. Yeah that's the thing... > It looks strange to me that there is no other HW mechanism that does that? > Is this driver reverse engineered? Sort of, from the driver they had published. > However I liked the idea about > > "An alternative option could be that the mac80211 stack would call > a non-atomic function of the driver to report the total count of > transmitted packets and the number of successful transmissions." > > This mechanism will help us to implement aggregation rate scaling > I would actually prefer if such statistics will be pushed by driver > rather then pulled by mac though. It doesn't help knowing whether the relevant packets were acked though. johannes
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