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Subject: Re: [Make-wifi-fast] hacking and slashing at the ath9k's retries
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Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> writes:

> I don't see a reason to have ATH_MAX_SW_RETRIES of 30. ?

Not really no, but in practice it doesn't make much of a difference:
Minstrel will build fairly long retry chains, so before ever getting to
the point where the max of 30 is tested against, a packet can be retried
a dozen times or more...

-Toke