Re: [ath9k-devel] Bayesian rate control

2016-10-24 Thread Dave Taht
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 6:57 AM, Björn Smedman wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been thinking about rate control a bit lately. I've written up > some of my thoughts in a blog post > (http://www.openias.org/bayesian-wifi-rate-control), but very briefly It is nice to see some newer thinking here. > put I

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath9k: Support 4.9Ghz channels on AR9580 adapter.

2016-06-21 Thread Dave Taht
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 2:41 AM, Jouni Malinen wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 11:02:20AM +1000, Julian Calaby wrote: >> I've only done this work as I hate to see people's efforts go to >> waste and I feel that there's enough roadblocks in the way of >> actually using this functionality that casu

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH 1/2] ath9k: use mac80211 intermediate software queues

2016-06-17 Thread Dave Taht
>> struct ath_atx_tid { >> struct list_head list; >> + struct sk_buff_head i_q; > Do we really need a third queue here? Instead of adding yet another > layer of queueing here, I think we should even get rid of buf_q. Less queues, more filling! > > Channel context based queue handling c

Re: [ath9k-devel] [RFC/RFT 2/5] ath9k: use mac80211 intermediate software queues

2016-06-06 Thread Dave Taht
For the record, michal's lastest patchset for the ath10k is here: https://github.com/kazikcz/linux/tree/fqmac-v5 which includes the reworked codel.h support (which also landed in net-next as of april 22) (no, haven't tried it yet, I'm only a day back from vacation) ... but it would pay to levera

Re: [ath9k-devel] [RFC/RFT 2/5] ath9k: use mac80211 intermediate software queues

2016-06-06 Thread Dave Taht
On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 10:50 PM, Tim Shepard wrote: > > >> > Thanks. I've gotten no other feedback that suggests anyone else has >> > read the code. So I very much appreciate it. >> >> I not only read it but tested it extensively against the ath9k stock, >> ath10k stock, ath10k -michal's fqmac 3

Re: [ath9k-devel] [RFC/RFT 2/5] ath9k: use mac80211 intermediate software queues

2016-06-05 Thread Dave Taht
On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 7:59 PM, Tim Shepard wrote: > > >> > Huh. I wonder why you did that? Is it really better to call the >> > ieee80211_txq a swq and call the ath9k hardware queue a txq? I >> > thought doing the renaming made for more readable and much more >> > maintainable code (where sear

Re: [ath9k-devel] [Make-wifi-fast] Diagram of the ath9k TX path

2016-05-13 Thread Dave Taht
And for the reason I originally cc'd ath9k-devel on this thread, was merely that I'd wanted to know if the diagram of the ath9k driver's current structure was actually accurate. Is it? http://blog.cerowrt.org/post/wifi_software_paths/ The "make-wifi-fast" mailing list exists merely because keepi

Re: [ath9k-devel] [Make-wifi-fast] Diagram of the ath9k TX path

2016-05-13 Thread Dave Taht
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Aaron Wood wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Dave Taht wrote: >> >> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Bob McMahon >> wrote: >>> >>> don't have the data available for multiple flows at the moment. >&

Re: [ath9k-devel] [Make-wifi-fast] Diagram of the ath9k TX path

2016-05-13 Thread Dave Taht
, but tweaking initcwnd, tcp_limit_output_bytes, etc, is not the right thing. There has been some good tcp research published of late, look into "BBR", and "CDG". > Note: That will depend on what exactly defines a flow. > > Bob > > On Fri, May 13, 2016 at

Re: [ath9k-devel] [Make-wifi-fast] Diagram of the ath9k TX path

2016-05-13 Thread Dave Taht
: Inline image 1] > I'm not an expert on TCP near congestion avoidance but maybe the algorithm > could benefit from RTT as weighted by CWND (or bytes in flight) and hunt > that maximum? > > Bob > > On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 8:41 PM, David Lang wrote: > >> On Mon

Re: [ath9k-devel] [Make-wifi-fast] Diagram of the ath9k TX path

2016-05-09 Thread Dave Taht
This is a very good overview, thank you. I'd like to take apart station behavior on wifi with a web application... as a straw man. On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 8:41 PM, David Lang wrote: > On Mon, 9 May 2016, Dave Taht wrote: > >> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 7:25 PM, Jonathan

Re: [ath9k-devel] [Make-wifi-fast] Diagram of the ath9k TX path

2016-05-09 Thread Dave Taht
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 8:30 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Hi, > > So: > > * the hardware can give us a per-AC transmit opportunity; > * software queuing needs to handle the per-STA transmit opportunity; > * they (and I followed convention after testing) "They" had probably not made proper sacrifices

Re: [ath9k-devel] [Make-wifi-fast] Diagram of the ath9k TX path

2016-05-09 Thread Dave Taht
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 7:25 PM, Jonathan Morton wrote: > >> On 9 May, 2016, at 18:35, Dave Taht wrote: >> >> should we always wait a little bit to see if we can form an aggregate? > > I thought the consensus on this front was “no”, as long as we’re making the

Re: [ath9k-devel] [Make-wifi-fast] Diagram of the ath9k TX path

2016-05-09 Thread Dave Taht
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 4:00 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote: > I finally finished my flow diagram of the ath9k TX path (corresponding > to the previous one I did for the mac80211 stack). In case anyone else > is interested, it's available here: > > https://blog.tohojo.dk/2016/05/the-ath9k-tx-path

Re: [ath9k-devel] Bonjour mDNS broacast can be lost during BT-WLAN coexistence schemes?

2016-03-27 Thread Dave Taht
These folk claim an open source prototype. http://www.sigcomm.org/sites/default/files/ccr/papers/2014/January/2567561-2567567.pdf ___ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel

Re: [ath9k-devel] AR9462 problems connecting again..

2015-02-24 Thread Dave Taht
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 2:26 AM, Jouni Malinen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 01:29:27PM +1100, Andrew McGregor wrote: >> Over the weekend I found a bug in minstrel-ht that might well be >> implicated here. >> >> The last retransmit rate is meant to be a 'get the packet there >> reliably' rate;

Re: [ath9k-devel] AR9462 problems connecting again..

2015-02-22 Thread Dave Taht
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> >> Just a wild shot - try disabling fast authentication and see if that >> makes a difference? >> >> wpa_supplicant.conf: >> >> fast_reauth=0 >> >> I recall having issues with fast_r

Re: [ath9k-devel] High Resolution RTT timestamp timer in ath9k

2014-12-11 Thread Dave Taht
I would like this too. On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Christophe Prévotaux wrote: > I would like to know if there is a way to access the ath9k High Resolution > Timestamp timers > > The current RTT resolution is quite low and not so useful for my purpose. > > -- > Christophe Prévotaux > Email:

Re: [ath9k-devel] queue priority mapping

2014-11-25 Thread Dave Taht
802.11e style priority mappings are just so wrong for 802.11n, anyway. All they do is add bufferbloat and eat txops where you are much better off aggregating more packets. On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Hubert Feurstein wrote: > Hi, > > 2014-11-24 10:10 GMT+01:00 M. Braun : > [...] >> >> I don'

Re: [ath9k-devel] [Cerowrt-devel] periodic hang of ath9k

2014-07-14 Thread Dave Taht
I have little doubt that we have been coping with more than one bug. On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 4:02 PM, R. wrote: > Hello David & list, > > Do you think we could get a build with CONFIG_PACKAGE_ATH_DEBUG > enabled? I've been following OpenWRT ticket #15320 and it looks like > this would be the wa

[ath9k-devel] periodic hang of ath9k

2014-07-13 Thread Dave Taht
cc-ing ath9k-devel for this update on http://www.bufferbloat.net/issues/442 this bug, which some people (usually on macs with low signal strength) can get to occur fairly rapidly, but I can't, is driving me 9 kinds of crazy... some new details below On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Sebastian Mo

[ath9k-devel] ath9k queue hang

2014-04-14 Thread Dave Taht
We have been trying to replicate a bug in seeing wifi connections hanging in strange ways after tons of data is transferred... for several months now. The symptoms varied, anything from multicast failing to background or best effort traffic failing - from local access working with remote access no

Re: [ath9k-devel] [Cerowrt-devel] Wireless failures 3.10.17-3

2013-12-14 Thread Dave Taht
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Sujith Manoharan wrote: > Dave Taht wrote: >> OK, I couldn't help myself but boot up that release. Wet paint! It >> successfully brought up >> the 5ghz radio, but did not manage to assign an ip address to it >> (netifd bug?) and

Re: [ath9k-devel] [Cerowrt-devel] Wireless failures 3.10.17-3

2013-12-13 Thread Dave Taht
sn't started Failed to start hostapd for phy1 netifd: Interface 'sw10' is enabled On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Dave Taht wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Sujith Manoharan wrote: >> Sebastian Moeller wrote: >>> It is a net gear WNDR3700 v2, so accor

Re: [ath9k-devel] [Cerowrt-devel] Wireless failures 3.10.17-3

2013-12-13 Thread Dave Taht
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Sujith Manoharan wrote: > Sebastian Moeller wrote: >> It is a net gear WNDR3700 v2, so according to: >> http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wndr3700 it is a Atheros AR7161 rev 2 680 >> MHz soc with the following wireless parts: Atheros AR9223 802.11bgn / Atheros >>

Re: [ath9k-devel] Anyone doing WiFi throughput tests?

2012-05-29 Thread Dave Taht
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Ben Greear wrote: > On 05/29/2012 12:07 PM, Christian Lamparter wrote: >> >> On Tuesday, May 29, 2012 08:23:20 PM Ben Greear wrote: >>> >>> On 05/27/2012 08:08 AM, Ben Greear wrote: On 05/26/2012 09:39 AM, Sujith Manoharan wrote: >>> >>> We started testin

Re: [ath9k-devel] oprofile the ath9k for low throughput rate and 3 questions

2010-04-28 Thread Dave Taht
On 04/19/2010 07:05 PM, oii...@aol.com wrote: I got avg. 60Mbps of the throughput rate by iperf testing and had the testing environment like below: OpenWrt: r18529 (I tried the latest r20851 and the throughput rate could be even worse ) AP && STA h/w platform: IXP425

Re: [ath9k-devel] are there anybody who are working on the ath9k to support ad hoc mode with 802.11n HT

2010-03-27 Thread Dave Taht
On 03/27/2010 05:18 PM, Benoit PAPILLAULT wrote: > Yongheng Qi a écrit : > >> no one >> >> > I am working on it. It is mostly working in my tree, but is still > bleeding edge. There are two main area of work : > > - getting proper adhoc support in ath9k (and ath5k) > - getting support for