ath10k rate control and stats

Tim Harvey tharvey at gateworks.com
Thu May 22 02:13:22 PDT 2014


On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Janusz Dziedzic
<janusz.dziedzic at tieto.com> wrote:
> On 20 May 2014 21:07, Tim Harvey <tharvey at gateworks.com> wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I can't figure out how to get rate control stats to show me what MCS
>> rate my ath10k links are at. Is rate control implemented by the
>> firmware or part of the mac80211 rate control? Is there any way to get
>> stats akin to the per-station rc_stats I'm used to seeing with ath9k?
>>
>
> ath10k rate control is implemented in the firmware. There is debugfs
> fw_stats command - check tx_rate, rx_rate.
> Also iw wlanX station dump will report correct RX rate (tx is not set
> while we don't get this info  from firmware yet).
>
> BR
> Janusz

Janusz,

Thanks - that helped!

I noticed that 'TX frame count' and 'RX frame count' from fw_stats
don't look correct - I think its showing bytes there not frames. Is
this a known issue perhaps?

Tim



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