On Tue December 7 2010 10:12:18 Jonathan Guerin wrote: > > Another thing that strikes me here is: why use multi rate retries if the > > rate is all the same? (Ignore the actual value of the rate, this is the > > HW rate code). > > > > Other examples: > > > > *** txdesc tries 2 > > *** mrr 0 tries 9 rate 12 > > *** mrr 1 tries 2 rate 13 > > *** mrr 2 tries 3 rate 11 > > > > = 16 transmissions in sum. > > > > *** txdesc tries 9 > > *** mrr 0 tries 3 rate 11 > > *** mrr 1 tries 9 rate 8 > > *** mrr 2 tries 3 rate 11 > > > > = 24 transmissions in sum. Again, rate[1] and rate[3] are the same, so > > why bother setting it up twice? > > I'm not sure if you still had a fixed rate set here - and I don't know > 100% how minstrel works - but it could be that minstrel is trying to > do some probing for better rates (if it was set to auto-rate)? I did not set a fixed rate, so minstrel was probing for better rates / providing alternative rates. In any case there is no reason to use the same rate twice. bruno -- 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
