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Re: Clarification needed on Last Tx Rate statistic update

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On Wed, 2012-11-07 at 14:31 +0530, Saravana wrote:
> Hi Johannes,
> 
> Thanks for the clarification. So it seems the in the other case that you 
> had mentioned, we can confirm that last_tx_rate is updated with 
> inappropriate value.
> So probably we could add another variable for the highest 
> performing/probability rate and update it with the  txrc.reported rate 
> value.
> The Last_tx_rate update with the highest performing/probability rate can 
> be removed.
> 
> As far as Last Tx Rate is concerned, should we need to check for the flag?
> I think the Last Tx Rate can be updated irrespective of the 
> IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL set or not.

Well, "last_tx_rate" might be a bad variable name, but I think the
behaviour we have now is consistent with something like
"current_tx_rate" (rather than last), so I don't see any value in
changing it. What use would the actual last rate have anyway, it keeps
changing all the time.

johannes

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