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Re: [PATCH] ath9k: switch to rate table based lookup

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Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Jonas Jelonek <jelonek.jonas@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>>> And how did you test this? Are both PCI and USB devices affected?
>>>
>>> I tested this on a 8devices Rambutan with QCA9558 SoC, but didn‘t
>>> explicitly test this with a USB device. I am not sure whether the
>>> ath9k_htc is affected. First I tested this without the patch to get a
>>> reference for comparison. I connected three devices via WiFi 2.4GHz
>>> and 5GHz, generated traffic multiple times with iperf3 and captured
>>> the rc_stats for each station. Then I applied the patch and did the
>>> same again. The throughput was overall the same like without the
>>> patch, compared to the first run of each station. Rate selection
>>> worked fine, the stats were nearly identical, same rates selected in
>>> both runs.
>>
>> Thanks. Can someone review this from ath9k_htc point of view?
>
> Pretty sure ath9k_htc devices do rate control in the firmware. Certainly
> ath9k_htc sets the HAS_RATE_CONTROL flag in mac80211, and the only calls
> to ath_set_rates are from within xmit.c, which is not used by ath9k_htc.
> So I think we're fine as far as that is concerned...

Very good, thanks for checking.

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