Re: [ath5k-devel] Performance regression between Madwifi/net80211 and ath5k/mac80211

2011-10-20 Thread Sam Leffler
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Pavel Roskin pro...@gnu.org wrote: On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:33:53 +0800 Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: .. does madwifi have that net80211 aggressive mode by default, where it overrides the best-effort WME queue parameters to allow for bursting? I

Re: [ath5k-devel] Performance regression between Madwifi/net80211 and ath5k/mac80211

2011-10-19 Thread Joerg Pommnitz
Betreff: Re: [ath5k-devel] Performance regression between Madwifi/net80211 and ath5k/mac80211 On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Joerg Pommnitz pommn...@yahoo.com wrote:   I guess you'll  need more help from the HW people here.   Bob, Bruno, Felix, Luis, Nick: Do you read? I guess I would

Re: [ath5k-devel] Performance regression between Madwifi/net80211 and ath5k/mac80211

2011-10-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
.. does madwifi have that net80211 aggressive mode by default, where it overrides the best-effort WME queue parameters to allow for bursting? I see exactly that difference in FreeBSD (33mbit vs 22mbit) when I disable that aggressive mode code. Thanks, Adrian

Re: [ath5k-devel] Performance regression between Madwifi/net80211 and ath5k/mac80211

2011-10-19 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:33:53 +0800 Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: .. does madwifi have that net80211 aggressive mode by default, where it overrides the best-effort WME queue parameters to allow for bursting? I tried madwifi-0.9.4 snapshot on a CM9 card, and I got: # iwpriv ath0

Re: [ath5k-devel] Performance regression between Madwifi/net80211 and ath5k/mac80211

2011-06-27 Thread Joerg Pommnitz
Betreff: Re: [ath5k-devel] Performance regression between Madwifi/net80211 and ath5k/mac80211 On 2011-06-22 5:07 PM, Joerg Pommnitz wrote: I guess you'll need more help from the HW people here. Bob, Bruno, Felix, Luis, Nick: Do you read? What mac80211/ath5k version did you use

Re: [ath5k-devel] Performance regression between Madwifi/net80211 and ath5k/mac80211

2011-06-26 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2011-06-22 5:07 PM, Joerg Pommnitz wrote: I guess you'll need more help from the HW people here. Bob, Bruno, Felix, Luis, Nick: Do you read? What mac80211/ath5k version did you use? If you're using the in-kernel ath5k from 2.6.38, then I'd suggest testing with a recent compat-wireless

Re: [ath5k-devel] Performance regression between Madwifi/net80211 and ath5k/mac80211

2011-06-22 Thread Johannes Berg
On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 06:41 -0700, Joerg Pommnitz wrote: Adrian, thanks for taking an interest. Today I built the current Madwifi driver for Fedora Kernel 2.6.38.8-32.fc15.i686. The ath5k problem seems to be at the tx side. If I run the iperf server on the ath5k node and the iperf client at

Re: [ath5k-devel] Performance regression between Madwifi/net80211 and ath5k/mac80211

2011-06-22 Thread Joerg Pommnitz
I guess you'll need more help from the HW people here. Bob, Bruno, Felix, Luis, Nick: Do you read? -- Regards Joerg ___ ath5k-devel mailing list ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel

Re: [ath5k-devel] Performance regression between Madwifi/net80211 and ath5k/mac80211

2011-06-22 Thread Nikolay Ledovskikh
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:02:38 -0700 (PDT) Joerg Pommnitz pommn...@yahoo.com wrote: I guess you'll need more help from the HW people here. Unless the delay is somewhere in the generic mac80211 stack. The older Atheros hardware is unique, because it has not just two hardware drivers but

Re: [ath5k-devel] Performance regression between Madwifi/net80211 and ath5k/mac80211

2011-06-22 Thread Nikolay Ledovskikh
2011/6/22 jpo pommn...@yahoo.com: Hello all, there seems to be a significant performance loss when moving from Madwifi to ath5k. For an embedded project we have been using Madwifi with Linux kernel 2.6.23. We have tested ath5k for some time and by now it seems to be stable enough for