@tohojo was the original author of that block of code (at least per the commit message). Perhaps he has an opinion on the proposed change and might be the best person to see Dave’s patch through to the end?
committed 02:03PM - 17 May 17 UTC
CoDel can be too aggressive if a station sends at a very low rate,
leading reduc… ed throughput. This gets worse the more stations are
present, as each station gets more bursty the longer the round-robin
scheduling between stations takes.
This adds dynamic adjustment of CoDel parameters per station. It uses
the rate selection information to estimate throughput and sets more
lenient CoDel parameters if the estimated throughput is below a
threshold (modified by the number of active stations).
A new callback is added that drivers can use to notify mac80211 about
changes in expected throughput, so the same adjustment can be made for
cards that implement rate control in firmware. Drivers that don't use
this will just get the default parameters.
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
[remove currently unnecessary EXPORT_SYMBOL, fix kernel-doc, remove
inline annotation]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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