[PATCH v2] cfg80211/nl80211: Add support for NL80211_STA_INFO_RX_DURATION

Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan mohammed at codeaurora.org
Wed Mar 9 02:52:31 PST 2016


Hi Johannes,


On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 10:58:08AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-03-09 at 15:08 +0530, Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan wrote:
> 
> > [shafi] Please suggest if this is ok ? I will be thankful
> > if you can suggest a better one if this is not ok
> > 
> > * @rx_duration: approximate total air time(usecs) for all the
> >  frames from a peer
> > 
> 
> That seems fine. We should perhaps specify the meaning of "air time"
> though. Is it allocated NAV time, or is it just time in which there was
> energy? With or without any IFS?
>

[shafi] ath10k implementation is based on PPDU duration calculation
and it does not includes any IFS duration.

So 'Energy' (time spent by the radio on receiving frames from a particular
peer) makes more sense right ?

regards,
shafi



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