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Re: tx_retries and tx_failures on iwlwifi

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Hi Emmanuel,

>
> The default number of retries is 16. The reason you have odd numbers 
> is because we don't report this properly. The big problem is about 
> AMPDU mainly - the frames are picked up by the HW and retransmissions 
> are handled by the FW / HW. While we know how many packets failed vs. 
> how many were sent (for rate control purposes), we can't know exactly 
> what frame we retransmitted and how many times (well... we can - but 
> it is not trivial). Since the the only way to tell mac80211 / cfg80211 
> / iw is per-packet (in ieee80211_tx_status in each Tx status for each 
> packet), the information there is not accurate. 
>
> I want to hope that if you disabled AMPDU (Tx) you'll get more 
> accurate results - I haven't tested myself though.

Does this mean that if AMPDU is disabled, the retransmissions will be either handled in software, or the hardware will report retransmissions more accurately?

How should I disable AMPDU?

Daniel
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