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Re: [BISECTED][NEXT] Wifi downloads capped at 105Kbytes/s

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On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 17:22 +0100, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> Download speeds are never more than 105Kbytes/s even though the bit rate is
> 54Mb/s in at least linux-net kernels from next-20080523 onwards. I have
> bisected it down to commit [2e92e6f2c50b4baf85cca968f0e6f1b5c0df7d39]:
> 
> commit 2e92e6f2c50b4baf85cca968f0e6f1b5c0df7d39
> Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Thu May 15 12:55:27 2008 +0200
> 
>     mac80211: use rate index in TX control
> 
>     This patch modifies struct ieee80211_tx_control to give band
>     info and the rate index (instead of rate pointers) to drivers.
>     This mostly serves to reduce the TX control structure size to
>     make it fit into skb->cb so that the fragmentation code can
>     put it there and we can think about passing it to drivers that
>     way in the future.
> 
>     The rt2x00 driver update was done by Ivo, thanks.

This patch also causes panic in b43 when using WEP.  I've just posted a
patch for that.

Please provide more details about your setup, in particular whether you
are using any encryption.

No need to cross-post so generously, linux-wireless is where it's
discussed.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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