[ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Bernhard Walle
Hello, we're using a PCIe AR9280 card on a Octeon MIPS CPU. The system that does the transmission has a high CPU utilization: iperf in UDP mode with 50M bandwith has ~90 % CPU utilization with a high softirq proportion. Using an Intel card (5300) has a lower CPU utilization (~60 %), but it's no

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2011-04-05 5:44 PM, Bernhard Walle wrote: > Hello, > > we're using a PCIe AR9280 card on a Octeon MIPS CPU. The system > that does the transmission has a high CPU utilization: > > iperf in UDP mode with 50M bandwith has ~90 % CPU utilization with a > high softirq proportion. > > Using an Intel c

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Serene Gud
--- On Tue, 4/5/11, Felix Fietkau wrote: From: Felix Fietkau Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues To: "Bernhard Walle" Cc: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2011, 9:29 PM On 2011-04-05 5:44 PM, Bernhard Walle wrote: > Hello, > > we

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Bernhard Walle
Hello Felix, * Felix Fietkau [2011-04-05 17:59]: > On 2011-04-05 5:44 PM, Bernhard Walle wrote: > > > >we're using a PCIe AR9280 card on a Octeon MIPS CPU. The system > >that does the transmission has a high CPU utilization: > > > >iperf in UDP mode with 50M bandwith has ~90 % CPU utilization wit

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2011-04-05 6:03 PM, Serene Gud wrote: > --- On *Tue, 4/5/11, Felix Fietkau //* wrote: > From: Felix Fietkau > Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues > To: "Bernhard Walle" > Cc: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org > Date: Tuesday, April

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Serene Gud
On 2011-04-05 6:03 PM, Serene Gud wrote: > >     On 2011-04-05 5:44 PM, Bernhard Walle wrote: >      > Hello, >      > >      > we're using a PCIe AR9280 card on a Octeon MIPS CPU. The system >      > that does the transmission has a high CPU utilization: >      > >      > iperf in UDP mode with

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2011-04-05 6:19 PM, Bernhard Walle wrote: > Hello Felix, > > * Felix Fietkau [2011-04-05 17:59]: >> On 2011-04-05 5:44 PM, Bernhard Walle wrote: >> > >> >we're using a PCIe AR9280 card on a Octeon MIPS CPU. The system >> >that does the transmission has a high CPU utilization: >> > >> >ipe

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2011-04-05 6:54 PM, Serene Gud wrote: > > > On 2011-04-05 6:03 PM, Serene Gud wrote: > > > > > On 2011-04-05 5:44 PM, Bernhard Walle wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > we're using a PCIe AR9280 card on a Octeon MIPS CPU. The system > > > that does the transmission

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Serene Gud
--- On Tue, 4/5/11, Felix Fietkau wrote: On 2011-04-05 6:54 PM, Serene Gud wrote: > > >     On 2011-04-05 6:03 PM, Serene Gud wrote: > >      > >      > On 2011-04-05 5:44 PM, Bernhard Walle wrote: >      > > Hello, >      > > >      > > we're using a PCIe AR9280 card on a Octeon MIPS CPU. The s

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Kucherenko Valeriy
> Are you using the ath9k rate control or are you using minstrel_ht? My > tests were done with minstrel_ht. You can enable it by disabling the > config option for the ath9k rate control. > > - Felix This is interesting. I have a problem with rate control (I guess) too. Can you give me a clue

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2011-04-05 7:52 PM, Kucherenko Valeriy wrote: >> Are you using the ath9k rate control or are you using minstrel_ht? My >> tests were done with minstrel_ht. You can enable it by disabling the >> config option for the ath9k rate control. >> >> - Felix > > > This is interesting. I have a proble

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Larry Vaden
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Felix Fietkau wrote: > On 2011-04-05 7:52 PM, Kucherenko Valeriy wrote: >>>  Are you using the ath9k rate control or are you using minstrel_ht? My >>>  tests were done with minstrel_ht. You can enable it by disabling the >>>  config option for the ath9k rate control

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Larry Vaden
Again, HTH: this is from a Bullet M2 running stock r26358: Station 00:15:6d:f0:47:dd (on wlan0) inactive time: 44790 ms rx bytes: 10380739 rx packets: 55088 tx bytes: 96278984 tx packets: 81367 tx retries: 51061 tx f

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Felix Fietkau [2011-04-05 18:54]: > > > >I'm using 2.6.38.1 ath9k which is at ~80 % CPU, starting from 2.6.37.1 > >with ~90 % CPU which was still an improvement. Do you think that > >compat-wireless gives still a performance boost? > Not sure. These numbers sound awfully high to me. Maybe you sh

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2011-04-05 9:57 PM, Bernhard Walle wrote: > * Felix Fietkau [2011-04-05 18:54]: >> > >> >I'm using 2.6.38.1 ath9k which is at ~80 % CPU, starting from 2.6.37.1 >> >with ~90 % CPU which was still an improvement. Do you think that >> >compat-wireless gives still a performance boost? >> Not s