Re: [PATCH v2] rtl8xxxu: Improve the A-MPDU retransmission rate with RTS/CTS protection

[Kalle Valo]

Chris Chiu <chris.chiu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The A-MPDU TX 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 difference 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 the driver does not know how
> many frames will be aggregated and the estimated duration, forcing the
> RTS/CTS protection for A-MPDU helps to lower the retransmission rate
> from > 20% to ~12% in the same test setup with the vendor driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Chiu <chris.chiu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

b250200e2ee4 rtl8xxxu: Improve the A-MPDU retransmission rate with RTS/CTS protection

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