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Re: ath5k: Weird Retransmission Behaviour

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On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 10:21:34AM +0100, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Jonathan Guerin <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I only seem to have Minstrel as the only available Rate Control
> > algorithm in my kernel config?
> 
> PID is only selectable on embedded platforms:
> 
> config MAC80211_RC_PID
>         bool "PID controller based rate control algorithm" if EMBEDDED
> 
> Just remove the "if EMBEDDED" from net/mac8011/Kconfig and retry.

For what it's worth, I tested pid and minstrel a while ago with a
modified mac80211_hwsim, and found minstrel to be quite a bit better
at rate adaptation.  So while it may be worth testing out for this
particular use case, minstrel is probably the way to go in general.

-- 
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com

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