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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rc.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rc.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rc.c index e697bd93490..c915954d4d5 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rc.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rc.c @@ -1235,10 +1235,14 @@ static void ath_tx_status(void *priv, struct ieee80211_supported_band *sband, return; /* - * If underrun error is seen assume it as an excessive retry only - * if prefetch trigger level have reached the max (0x3f for 5416) - * Adjust the long retry as if the frame was tried hw->max_rate_tries - * times. This affects how ratectrl updates PER for the failed rate. + * If an underrun error is seen assume it as an excessive retry only + * if max frame trigger level has been reached (2 KB for singel stream, + * and 4 KB for dual stream). Adjust the long retry as if the frame was + * tried hw->max_rate_tries times to affect how ratectrl updates PER for + * the failed rate. In case of congestion on the bus penalizing these + * type of underruns should help hardware actually transmit new frames + * successfully by eventually preferring slower rates. This itself + * should also alleviate congestion on the bus. */ if ((tx_info->pad[0] & ATH_TX_INFO_UNDERRUN) && (sc->sc_ah->tx_trig_level >= ath_rc_priv->tx_triglevel_max)) { |