Hi Stefan,
* 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.
I have the patch running on the following hardware since you sent it and
noticed no regression:
iwm0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265" rev 0x78, msi
iwm0: hw rev 0x230, fw ver 34.0.1, address
Cheers
Matthias
