Jouni Malinen wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 07:35:55PM +0200, Gábor Stefanik wrote: >> Handling of multicast/NO_ACK packets by mac80211 rate scaling is a >> mess. Basically, the rule of thumb is that any packet with >> IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK (including multicasts and broadcasts, which >> always have this flag set) should be sent at lowest rate (unless >> overridden by radiotap - this is not covered in this patchset), with >> no retries. > > While this may be the case with the current rate control > implementations, this is not a good assumption to make. > Multicast/broadcast frames could (and often really should) be > transmitted at higher rate, i.e., the rate control algorithm could > figure out that all associated STAs should be able to receive frames at > a higher basic rate. Good idea. I should implement this in minstrel and use the minimum value of max_prob_rate for all stations as multicast rate ;) Johannes: Can you think of a good way to fit this into the API? - Felix -- 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
