Re: [PATCH] rtl8xxxu: Improve the A-MPDU retransmission rate with RTS/CTS protection

From: Kalle Valo
Date: Tue Dec 07 2021 - 02:10:51 EST


Chris Chiu <chris.chiu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The A-MPDU retransmission rate is always high (> 20%) even in a very
> clean environment. However, the vendor driver retransimission rate is
> < 10% in the same test bed. The different is the vendor driver starts
> the A-MPDU TXOP with initial RTS/CTS handshake which is observed in the
> air capture and the TX descriptor. Since there's no related field in
> TX descriptor to enable the L-SIG TXOP protection and the duration,
> applying the RTS/CTS protection instead helps to lower the retransmission
> rate from > 20% to ~12% in the same test setup.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Chiu <chris.chiu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

You should have marked this as v2 because you submitted already before:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20211129143953.369557-1-chris.chiu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/

And include a list of changes between versions, more info in the wiki
below.

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