On Fri, 2014-05-30 at 23:41 +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 30 May 2014 10:47:28 -0400 > "John W. Linville" <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Minstrel has long since proven its worth. > > Just a quick note: a while ago, somebody proposed > (http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1202.3/02307.html) a > enhanced version of this algorithm that would, according to the related > research and paper [1], outperform Minstrel in most cases. The patch > was not accepted as comments (mostly related to coding style, but not > only that) weren't addressed by the sender. I then never had the time > to seriously look into it. My understanding is that the amended > algorithm would spare some air time compared to Minstrel, and thus it > could provide marginally better performance. > > So, maybe somebody is interested in looking into that. Otherwise, yes, > let's drop it. They can add it back if needed - looks like this was some academic paper and they weren't really interested in submitting it to mainline properly. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
