openwrt/package/kernel/mac80211
Koen Vandeputte 4b5c77ca2f ath9k: backport dynack improvements
Close cooperation with Lorenzo Bianconi resulted
in these patches which fix all remaining seen issues
when using dynack.

Fix link losses when:
- Late Ack's are not seen or not present
- switching from too low static coverage class to dynack on a live link

These are fixed by setting the Ack Timeout/Slottime to
the max possible value for the currently used channel width when
a new station has been discovered.

When traffic flows, dynack is able to adjust to optimal values
within a few packets received (typically < 1 second)

These changes have been thoroughly tested on ~60 offshore devices
all interconnected using mesh over IBSS and dynack enabled on all.

Distances between devices varied from <100m up to ~35km

[move patches to correct folder + renumber]
Signed-off-by: Koen Vandeputte <koen.vandeputte@ncentric.com>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit f6e8ba0238fe349b7529357793e2fb18635819ed)
2019-08-28 13:10:08 +02:00
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files mac80211: add iw command wrapper with error logging 2018-11-07 12:00:45 +01:00
patches ath9k: backport dynack improvements 2019-08-28 13:10:08 +02:00
scripts mac80211: add a maintenance script for upstream backport commits 2014-10-18 17:39:04 +00:00
Makefile mac80211: brcmfmac: backport 5.0 & 5.1 important changes/fixes 2019-02-25 10:21:32 +01:00