On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I seem to recall that implementing aggregation was causing issues with >> ath9k > > Just ath9k, there are only two aggregation capable drivers in the > kernel right now, Intel's iwlagn and ath9k. Intel's worked just fine > in my tests. Ah, I see. >> among others (in particular, ath9k was getting slow throughput). > > Yes, but it seems this is a general throughput issue now, not just > related to aggregation. We have been working hard on trying to find > what the cause to the throughput issue is. > I'll keep watching linux-kernel, linux-wireless, ath9k-devel, etc for updates on this. :) >> How's throughput with this version of the aggregation patch? > > Please test and let us know, try HT40 on 11a. We're keen on resolving > this just as with the MIB interrupt issue you say ;) Will do. It will have to wait until Monday though, because I stupidly left my AirPort Extreme router's AC adapter at home (3 hours away). > BTW you need more than this patch to get aggregation working. Below > are the patches you'll need on top of 2.6.27-rc7 to get aggregation > working (and your MIB interrupt storm fixed) with ath9k: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/patches/ath9k/2008-09-25 The interrupt storm is gone in Linus' master branch (the patch in question got merged today or yesterday, it seems). I'll grab the aggregation patches and start playing with them. - Steven -- 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
