These patches add a feature to initialize the link rate metric with a guess
based off of RSSI when insufficient traffic has passed to allow actual
calculation of the link rate.
I am submitting this patch set on behalf of our team after
testing them with the wireless-testing tag master-2012-06-08.
Requires the patch series noted below to apply cleanly:
[PATCH 0/2] mac80211: mesh remove unused var and fix naming
formerly sent as 3 and 5 respectively in:
[PATCH v3 0/5] Improvement to initial mesh metric
Javier Cardona (2):
mac80211: Keep tx rate averages for mesh peers for better metric
calculation.
mac80211: Use signal strength as a proxy for expected datarate.
net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c | 87 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
net/mac80211/sta_info.c | 1 +
net/mac80211/sta_info.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
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1.7.9.5
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