On 2013-02-28 4:54 AM, Sujith Manoharan wrote: > Felix Fietkau wrote: >> I don't see the point in keeping that algorithm around. It has known >> design flaws that make it perform poorly in several scenarios, and >> fixing some of the flaws require basically rewriting it. > > I ran some comparison throughput tests between minstrel_ht and ath9k RC > and minstrel showed lower numbers (~10Mbps difference). This is in a clean > environment (OTA). IMO, we can switch the default to minstrel_ht, but keep > the ath9k RC until the perf. gap is fixed. I think this was Google's concern too, > a drop in the average throughput. This was in the STA->AP direction. What was the distance and what was the rate used? > In the AP->STA direction (AP: DB120, STA: AR9280), the numbers were really low. > The highest that I could see was ~165 Mbps, while with WNDR3700 (stock FW), the > average throughput was ~185 Mbps and an occasional high of 190 and above. Comparing against stock FW (especially with different devices) is not useful, it could be anything. - Felix -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
