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    mac80211: Dynamically set CoDel parameters per station · 484a54c2
    Toke Høiland-Jørgensen authored
    
    
    CoDel can be too aggressive if a station sends at a very low rate,
    leading reduced 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: default avatarToke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
    [remove currently unnecessary EXPORT_SYMBOL, fix kernel-doc, remove
    inline annotation]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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