On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 10:03 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:13:06PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > mac80211 has the advantage that TX status is reported back, so it could > > pretty accurately know how many frames are queued up -- more generically > > this cannot be done. > > > > But since it's not perfectly accurate right now, it may not be the best > > idea to do this at this time. > > Let's not make the perfect the enemy of the good. An imperfect > implementation at the mac80211 layer is likely better than a somewhat > better implementation for one driver and no implementation for > the rest. Well, no, I think the fact that it's not perfect probably means that the bandwidth/packet estimate will drift if any packets are dropped etc. > Now, someone help me understand how .11n aggregation complicates this... :-) I'll try ... later :-) johannes -- 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
