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. [snip]
No regressions noticed with iwn(4). :)
