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Re: [RFC] ath9k: remove ath9k_rate_control

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On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 05:53:50PM +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 2013-02-08 5:38 PM, Paul Stewart wrote:
> > Could you share some of the test results?  I know with ChromeOS when
> > we switched to 3.4, the first thing that tipped us off to the fact
> > that we had inadvertently switch to minstrel was that our RvR
> > throughput values had dropped significantly.  Has anyone done an RvR
> > comparison between minstrel and the ath9k internal rate control
> > lately?
> Are you sure it was minstrel_ht, or could it also have been minstrel
> (the legacy version)? I don't have any recent RvR test results, however
> on every single link that I tested both rate control modules on (leaving
> everything else unchanged), minstrel_ht got slightly better results.
> Additionally, I occasionally get asked for help on debugging low
> throughput issues, and many of the people asking me have reported that
> simply switching to minstrel_ht fixed these issues in their tests.
> 
> I would also like to see some real RvR tests comparing both, preferably
> before this gets merged, which is why I sent it as RFC.

Paul, curious if you've run any tests?

  Luis
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