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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Decouple fail_avg stats used by mesh from rate control algorithm.

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On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 17:15 -0700, Javier Cardona wrote:
> Mesh uses the tx failure average to compute the (m)path metric.  This used to
> be done inside the rate control module.  This patch breaks the dependency
> between the mesh stack and the rate control algorithm.  Mesh will now work
> independently of the chosen rate control algorithm.
> 
> The mesh stack keeps a moving average of the average transmission losses for
> each mesh peer station.  If the fail average exceeds a certain threshold, the
> peer link is marked as broken.

Looks good, means it can also work for ath9k etc. eventually.

johannes

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