On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 14:26 +0200, Helmut Schaa wrote: > Am Dienstag, 12. August 2008 17:42:23 schrieb Jouni Malinen: > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 02:40:23PM +0200, Helmut Schaa wrote: > > > JFYI I already started to rework the existing scan code in mac80211 > > > (software scan) to do something like background scanning: > > > > > > 1) notify current AP about leaving the channel > > > 2) scan one channel > > > > It might be useful to leave this "one" as a parameter to allow easy > > experiments with scanning more than one channel at a time to reduce > > latency. > > Good point. > > > Ideally, this--along the interval for background scans--could > > be something that is dynamically changed based on the expected traffic > > pattern. Whenever there is lot of data traffic being (mostly > > successfully) transmitted, it would be beneficial not to jump to other > > channels as frequently or for as long a time. If there has not been any > > data transmission for some time, it may be more acceptable to scan more > > frequently and to remain away from the operational channel for longer > > periods of time. Though, we should also keep in mind that background > > scans are going to increase power consumption on otherwise inactive > > situation, so setting a suitable policy for this can get quite complex. > > It might even be beneficial to cancel a currently active background scan once > the TX queue is filling up and report the already gathered information to the > user space. If that's the case, we should also then have a response to the original scan request (or broadcast netlink message with the original request's cookie) that says "scan canceled" so that the requester can handle that. dan -- 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
