From: "Thomas Hühn" <thomas.huehn@hs-nordhausen.de>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Jonas Jelonek <jelonek.jonas@gmail.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"nbd@nbd.name" <nbd@nbd.name>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/4] mac80211: add TPC support in control path
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 16:51:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5AA24131-A7E9-451D-97AB-97D925B2A53A@hs-nordhausen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5175b7f95442eff1f8e899feee3d3aeb330fb61e.camel@sipsolutions.net>
> On 29. Aug 2022, at 16:45, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2022-08-29 at 16:41 +0200, Jonas Jelonek wrote:
>> Transmit power control (TPC) per packet hence per station can be used to
>> manage interference and increase overall spatial reuse and therefore
>> increases sum throughput in WiFi networks with multiple APs and STAs.
>> Although several of today's wifi chips, e.g., from QCA and from Mediatek
>> support fine-grained TPC per packet, the Linux mac80211 layer does not
>> provide support this annotation nor control yet.
>>
>> This series proposes several changes to introduce TPC support in
>> mac80211, in particular to annotate tx-power per packet/per mrr stage in
>> the Tx control path.
>> The patches include new nembers in the Tx control path structs, a
>> modified tx-power level support annotation, hardware flags and an
>> utility function for the convenient use of struct ieee80211_rate_status
>> (introduced by 44fa75f207d8a106bc75e6230db61e961fdbf8a8) for tx-power
>> status report in drivers.
>>
>> Compile-Tested: current wireless-next tree with all flags on
>> Tested-on PCEngines APU with ath9k WiFi device on OpenWrt Linux
>> Kernel 5.10.137
>>
>
> That seems just a little old? Not sure I'd trust that given the major
> changes in the tree recently?
Good point, we can test this with 5.15.63 by enabling the OpenWrt testing kernel … would that be ok ?
>
> johannes
Greetings Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-29 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-29 14:41 [RFC 0/4] mac80211: add TPC support in control path Jonas Jelonek
2022-08-29 14:41 ` [RFC 1/4] mac80211: modify tx-power level annotation Jonas Jelonek
2022-08-29 14:41 ` [RFC 2/4] mac80211: add tx-power annotation in control path Jonas Jelonek
2022-08-29 14:41 ` [RFC 3/4] mac80211: add hardware flags for TPC support Jonas Jelonek
2022-08-29 14:41 ` [RFC 4/4] mac80211: add utility function for tx_rate - rate_info conversion Jonas Jelonek
2022-08-29 14:45 ` [RFC 0/4] mac80211: add TPC support in control path Johannes Berg
2022-08-29 14:51 ` Thomas Hühn [this message]
2022-08-29 14:52 ` Johannes Berg
2022-08-29 14:52 ` Johannes Berg
2022-08-29 15:19 ` Jonas Jelonek
2022-08-29 20:31 ` Thomas Hühn
2022-08-29 15:15 ` Jonas Jelonek
2022-08-29 14:46 ` Johannes Berg
2022-08-29 15:06 ` Jonas Jelonek
2022-08-31 13:59 ` Jonas Jelonek
2022-08-31 14:22 ` Johannes Berg
2022-08-31 15:39 ` Jonas Jelonek
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