On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 03:03:10PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> This patch tweaks the heuristic RA is using to decide whether enough
> statistics have been gathered for a candidate Tx rate. The goal is to
> avoid Tx rate choices that might turn out to be too optimistic.
> 
> In my testing RA now scales upwards a little bit more slowly while the
> distance towards the AP is decreasing. The difference is not huge and
> taking the extra time to gather more reliable stats should be worth it.
> 
> In practice this only affects the case where we probe upwards. If the
> current Tx rate starts seeing loss we will still scale down very quickly.
> 
> Tests on iwn, iwm, and athn would be appreciated.
> 
> This patch is based on a larger collection of patches by Christian Ehrhardt.
> I have made stylistic tweaks for consistency.
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No regressions noticed with iwn(4).  :)

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