Felix Fietkau wrote: > Under load, otherwise stable rates can easily fluctuate because of > collisions. In my tests on a clean channel, the success probability of > the max throughput rate often stays somewhere between 90% and 100% under > load. This can cause some unnecessary switching to lower rates. > This patch improves stability by treating success probability values > between 90% and 100% the same. > In my tests on a 3x3 HT20 link with lots of TCP traffic, it improves the > average throughput by a few mbit/s. Some test results: Sta: WB222 (2x2) AP : DB120, AR9380 (3x3) (Channel 36, HT40+) Distance: About a meter. With ath9k RC: [SUM] 0.0-60.0 sec 1.42 GBytes 203 Mbits/sec With minstrel_ht, current HEAD: [SUM] 0.0-60.0 sec 1.35 GBytes 193 Mbits/sec with minstrel_ht, HEAD + these 3 patches: [SUM] 0.0-60.1 sec 1.41 GBytes 202 Mbits/sec Sujith -- 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
